• IngeniousRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Sex work is illegal because giving people the ability to use something they own (their body) as their own means of production removes a barrier to success, causing some of the power to slip away from the owning class. If I can charge $200 an hour for hole rental services I don’t have to work a corporate job, which means my labor can’t be exploited. This is (for the owning class) of course a bad thing.

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      3 days ago

      (1) That logic doesn’t stop people from working independently at one of many different other trades, and (2) sex work if legalized would gravitate towards a corporate vs. independent breakdown of jobs just like other trades. It’s not like porn stars aren’t making money for the “owning class.”

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      3 days ago

      Don’t have anything to add as I agree, just wanted to say your username gave me a chuckle!

      …Unless I’m actually an idiot and it wasn’t a geology pun lol :P

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      3 days ago

      Really? You are willing to shag anybody for merely $200? Or, more probably, 4 people for 50$ each?

      Don’t oversimplify this whole problem. It is, like almost all problems, not a black and white problem.