Just read another story of a woman exploited in German prostitution for years whose health was in such a state that she looked ill and decades older than she was. Still not a single "sex" buyer ever asked if she needed help or informed any authority about her distress.
When "sex" buying is legal not only do men feel emboldened to buy access to women they also feel they have no more responsibility towards her than "a customer of any service". You go in, get what you paid for and leave. Her health, well being, mental state - none of his business.
The law in Germany concurred with this: Until 2017 it wasn't a crime to pay to rape trafficked women, because "the customer" can't be held responsible for the situation of the "service provider". That's what #sexworkiswork does: Crushes sexual ethics in favour of the free market.
When you normalize prostitution you normalize women's sexual boundaries being subjected to changes in the market: An uptick in trafficked women & economic refugees? Everyone earns less or allows men to do things previously refused for health and safety reasons. Its abject cruelty
Sex buyers know if a woman is strapped for cash they might be able to push for no condom use, for brutal anal "sex", for painful BDSM practices... Like @endclasssociety says its always adversarial: He wants as much as he can get for as little money, she wants the exact opposite.
I give an overview about how sex buyers routinely violate every principle of sexual consent and basic human respect in the sex trade - because they can. Because we're all basically accepting that they're holding women (at least economically) hostage: ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/con…
A man who puts his penis inside a woman who is visibly distressed, ill, high etc. is a rapist and I don't give a damn if he paid for it. As long as we tolerate that men can do this as long as they pay and we label it "sex work" women in the sex trade will be 2nd class citizens.
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