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

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• horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sex work is real work. Everyone of us trade our bodies or our minds for pay.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, but writing computer code is not the same as offering sex. One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

    I think it’s great that sex workers get benefits, but let’s not kid ourselves that sex work is purely a normal job.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Working in a business environment is connected to our souls and will damage us inside, it’s not different in kind, and if it’s different in intensity it is because of the lack of protection and the level of abuse which people get away with.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As someone who writes computer code for a living, I might match those up differently than you’d expect.

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    • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

      True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.

      My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I’ve read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it’s semen ?

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    • BigChungus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m sorry, you count “selling furniture” or “making cheese” as normal jobs? Call me sheltered but I’ve gone over 30 years on this planet and never met anyone who’s done either lol.

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    • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      have you actually done any programming? it’s ‘soul damaging’ asf

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not sure which job is which.

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    • infinite_ass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You don’t think writing code damages your soul? Have you met software developers?

      Devs are at the bottom of the list of Cosmo’s dateworthy by profession for a very good reason.

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    • Juice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love this thread you created where you’re like “hooking is bad for you unlike software developing” and all these devs hop in like, “so is there a certificate program for sex work?”

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    • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      there are hundreds? thousands? of soul crushing occupations. sex work is real work.

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    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      spoken like someone who has never written code as a job

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    • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah. I write computer code, it’s very similar especially when it comes to managing clients.

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    • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Would you make sex work illegal, if you could?

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  • skaffi@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Correct!

    Btw, a protip - it’s super insecure to make your username be the same as your password, @horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world!

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  About time … all those whores in political office have had the same rights and benefits for decades.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Typo in quoted text, OP…

  They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and suck days.

  But seriously, wonderful progressive policy. Some of those people work very hard and word is that their clients can be a real pain in the ass sometimes too.

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  • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But seriously, wonderful progressive policy.

    It is. Not so much: your comment.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Huehue

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• kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Very good news!

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• NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought they already had, given the type of work/life/benefits culture we have here. Which makes me wonder: which other jobs don’t have any leave or pension plans?

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.

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    • NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Our leave policies are also a mess for everyone just out of college/university, because no one really informs anyone. I’m assuming they’re kinda the same for anyone coming in from anywhere else…

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