Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not very sex positive of you… you sound like a bit of a prudish gatekeeper.mmm here, no? Sex workers suck and fuck… Do you think they should feel shame for these acts they choose to perform professionally?

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  • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No sex worker should feel ashame for their job. The ones I know don’t at least.

    I get you were joking and I see how my comment may come over as prude. It’s just that it’s a very harsh Industrie that is often marginalised. More often than not it intersect with people of lower class seeing it as one of the few ways to earn money. Those that work it often have to hide it, even if it’s legal, because there is a huge taboo around it. And then of course there is a huge dark area where mostly females are human trafficked into a country and then forced into prostitution.

    Makingsex work to be a legal job and getting legislation like in this thread here helps a lot and is indeed progressive and positive.

    I feel like making fun of these people isn’t helpful, or progressive at all. Nothing against a lighthearted joke, but your comment offers nothing else but sex jokes and a lip service remark about how progressive the law is. I feel like it is making fun of sex workers more than anything else.

    If that makes me a prude gatekeeper in your eyes (and the eyes of the downvoters) then be it so. You can think of me what ever you wish. I’ll have to live with that burden.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The way you remove a stigma is to speak normally, regularly and without kid gloves. We don’t need to treat it like gold. It needs to be safe, regulated, respectful of labor rights and with a wage representice of the type of work, like anything else.

      • the person that deveins shrimp at the factory has a very shitty job
      • A proctologist is a high paying and respected job, but you have to work with a lot of assholes every day
      • A prostitute that can’t laugh about their job, probably has a big stick up their ass.

      The more you can personally evolve away from tiptoeing around discussion here, the better you do to actually normalize. Normalizing casual discussion helps make those who are still against it to feel more like the ridiculous outsiders they are, far removed from the accepted status quo of society.

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