The sex trade being pushed in the name of women’s freedom is the biggest switcheroo in the history of the world.
It only takes 5 seconds of thinking to see that the entire point of paying for sexual favors IS telling another person what to do with their own body and controlling their sexuality.
A whole Marxist analysis of capitalism isn’t needed to see that the payment is pressure, just common sense. The transaction is made precisely because the individual doesn’t want the sex act, wouldn’t freely do it, and otherwise would not partake in it.
And this is before even taking into account the poverty, drugs, alcohol, trauma, brainwashing, grooming, blackmail, threats, trafficking, physical force, other factors endemic in the sex trade that only compound the already coercive power dynamic between seller and buyer.
Stop fucking capping, “sex work” is not an expression of female sexuality it is the suppression of it. The sex industry is not an expression of women’s bodily autonomy it is a violation of it.
There’s no consent if saying no has consequences, and the penalties in commercial sex can be anything from losing money to murder. Ergo #ConsentCantBeBought. Economic coercion is a real thing, having to choose between sucking dick and being evicted is not sexual liberation.
Poor women of color aren’t ~naturally~ hypersexual and don’t just happen to ~like~ being used as sex toys to fulfill men’s fantasies — it is a triple whammy of sexist, racist, and classist to insinuate that’s the case. #HerBodyHisChoice
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