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by _bfhp 2461 days ago
Can we say that this counts as "the sex worker perspective?"

> Rachel Moran, a former prostitute who considers the purchase of sex an act of violence against women... holds a very different opinion on who the victims of prostitution are: "The acceptance of prostitution makes all women potential prostitutes in the public view since there are only two requirements for a woman to work in a brothel: one is that circumstance has placed her so […] and the other is that she has a vagina, and all women are born meeting at least one of these requirements."

[1] https://sarahditum.com/2014/02/24/who-do-you-listen-to/

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No. That counts as an anti-sex worker perspective. Sex work takes skill, talent, customer service skills and most sex workers derive the bulk of their profit from regular customers who they build relationships with. Also, sex workers are a diverse group who all hold different opinions and experiences of work. Just like some people still like working at Facebook and Google, and some do not.
"Anti-sex worker?" The quote gives no opinion about sex workers, only about the men who buy sex and women collectively as a class.

I can't help but be reminded of how people cast Jewish pro-human-rights criticism of the Israeli government as "self-hating Jews..."