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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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- Skua@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  While I agree with you that I don't think OP has correctly described what they're actually thinking about, there is plenty of sex work that doesn't involve actually having physical sex with anyone. Like a solo porn model, or erotic dancers
  
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  - Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I think OP doesn’t even know what their point is.
    
    They keep saying will continue to perform sex work if there’s no economic gain, but at the point it’s not work. Then the counter argument to that is “there’s many different kinds of sex work”, but the point still stands that having sex voluntarily, being an exhibitionist, or having a hobby of filming sexual encounters are all things that people do for personal gratification and are not considered a career now, or in this hypothetical post-scarcity civilisation.
    
    Like someone else said, it sounds like they are just fantasising about sex slaves. To me it also sounds like OP is overcompensating on the whole “I respect sex workers” virtue signalling.
    
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- Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Other commenter is right, I was thinking more things like creating pornography or sex surrogacy, things that people would find fulfilling and choose to do irrespective of what incentives may or may not be on offer, and would qualify as more traditional “work”.
  
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  - givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    things that people would find fulfilling and choose to do irrespective of what incentives may or may not be on offer
    
    Again, people already do that for free…
    
    Just with people they choose to.
    
    So either you’re advocating for sex slaves who feel obligated to do so with anyone, or it’s just still normal sexual/romantic activities.
    
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    Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I don’t agree, I think it’s possible to compartmentalize certain sexual activities as not romantic and also not obligation-based, while still being fulfilling and work-related in a post-scarcity society. Like helping clients overcome sexual insecurity or barriers with sex surrogacy, for instance.
    
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