Thread by @EllyArrow

I know Wikipedia is being run by men, but if the crowd who say that "sex work =/= sexual slavery" truly believed what they say, they'd stop calling women in historic Japanese prostitution "sex workers". The women were overwhelmingly enslaved! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oiran

Unless you want "sex work" to be associated with women being sold to brothels as children, never being allowed to leave the red light district and dying young of STDs - then stop calling historic prostitution "sex work". This is not work: ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/the…

I know ya'll think that women standing behind windows in Amsterdam are empowered and totally respected, but maybe being behind bars is your limit for where you project your empowerment nonsense onto? Many women couldn't turn a man down. They could not leave on threat of violence!

I repeat: Sold to brothels and men as minors = not sex work! Not allowed to leave until debt was paid (often died in debt bondage!) = not sex work! Government participated in punishing women by putting them into brothels = not sex work! #NeitherSexNorWork

I can really only laugh wrily at people who tell me to stop conflating trafficking and prostitution, but then constantly call everything that involves a man paying to access someone "sex work" with absolutely no concept of women's lived reality and the degree of coercion.

Don't get me started on people calling modern cases of trafficking and of paid child abuse "sex work" (e.g. the New Zealand government, oh holy mecca of feminist enlightement). I am sick and tired of everything being called "sex work", when it is so clearly #NeitherSexNorWork.