So, like, is everyone but me super-happy about prostitution? The more the better? We should encourage and help anyone who wants to do it with everything we can offer?

Can I have some fundamental problems with prostitution without being called a SWERF? How about being skeptical about the benefits of legalisation? There's so much conflicting data out there about the effects of legalisation.

@JordiGH I think it boils down to an ideological question: do you think it’s ok for the state to forbid an occupation if said occupation is both maybe dangerous to the workers physical and mental well being and people still want to do it? My take is that we are not forbidding many dangerous jobs but often introduce regulation to make it safer. So that’s what we need to do for sex work. Ask the people doing the job what they need to see regulated, basically.

@kensanata But there's something fundamentally different about commercial sex. Nobody values the least experienced coal miner the most, paying hundred times more for a miner who has never mined.

People do get trafficked and enslaved to work on football stadiums, but I do think this is a different sort of thing from sexual slavery.

@JordiGH But in the examples you cited the key term seemed to be *slavery*. That’s definitely a problem. And rape is a problem. And kidnapping is a problem. And human trafficking and how victims cannot contact the police for fear of deportation is a problem. But the actual sex work itself is not the problem. It might attract a lot of problems, but forbidding it is just lazy regulation.

@kensanata How do you regulate pimping? How do you distinguish a pimp, who often lures women with promises and emotional abuse, from a manager or an agent?

@JordiGH
By decriminalizing sex work to allow crimes against sex workers be reported without fear of rape or abuse by the police.
Or more ideally, to allow worker coops without police intervention
@kensanata