Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There can be other forms of compensation in currencyless societies, so not necessarily. There’s also just the personal fulfillment aspect, which is supposed to be the main thing motivating people to work in this hypothetical.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s also just the personal fulfillment aspect,

    Yeah, that’s the reason lots of people have sex for no money…

    Like, if there’s no money changing hands, it’s not a free prostitute, it’s just someone willing to have sex with you

    It doesn’t make any sense to still call them a prostitute.

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    • Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It does if they formally define it as their career path and treat it as such.

      Sex work is more than just having sex with people for fun. There’s layers, specializations, and skill to it. Not all of it is strictly physical. Someone might want to just go on a date after their spouse passed away, for instance. Handling that situation requires a lot of emotional maturity and your skill in those situations improves with experience.

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      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So. In your eyes…

        Are they having sex with everyone that asks?

        Or are they only having sex with people they want to for no money, like literally every other human?

        Be a use the more you talk, the more it’s feeling like you want a society with public sex slaves.

        If there’s no sex, why are you calling them sex workers?

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So instead of being a ‘whore’ for money, Jane can be a ‘whore’ for a meal? Or a whore for a new dining set?

    Unless we are in a post scarcity world there will be ‘currency’ even if it’s not ‘money’.

    Anything that made sex transactional would just be more of the same old shit we see today.

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    • Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      True, it would have to be post-scarcity to be ethical then.

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  • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It seems like you mean a post-scarcity society rather than a currencyless one. Sex work done to earn a living is still done to earn a living if it's in a society that distributes goods and services in another way. I'd hope that the sex worker in question is getting personal fulfilment from it, but unless their basic needs are covered regardless then it seems foolishly optimistic to assume that it's the case

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    • Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Post-scarcity is more accurate for what I was imagining, yes.

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