Thread by @EllyArrow

When we read reports of landlords harassing women in their apartments when they cannot pay their rent, we are rightly angry, disgusted and condemn this clear abuse of power. Much of #prostitution follows the same pattern: Not only the brothel operators, who think that a woman /1

...in their brothel should always be accessible to them, but specficially the #sexbuyer a woman depends on to pay for such basic things as rent, food, etc. What is this other than an outsourcing of the dynamic between the #landlord who gets access to a tenant to the sexbuyer? /2

Either way, the woman is pressed for financial reasons to let a man get close to her with whom she does not want to be intimate.

Now many people will say that this is the case throughout #capitalism and many people do jobs they would rather not do. There is no question that /3

...must change to make our world a fair place & we wish for a future where necessary, but difficult or unpleasant tasks are either automated or distributed among many people or organized in a way that the people in charge of them are well paid and any risk that the activity... /4

...entails is minimized. #Prostitution, however, is not a social necessity (unless we believe in a male right to sex) and is incomparably stressful and potentially traumatising compared to activities that are unloved by many people: dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/statistics/ /5

Because only in #prostitution is it an everyday "occupational hazard" to be infected, attacked or even murdered by one's own "client" and this in situations where one is usually naked and at the mercy of the potential perpetrator. THIS is unlike any other occupation. /6