[Flatcircle]

The comments here are surprising in regards to how many people assume all people in a major city are rational decision makers.

There's this utopian notion that sex workers are just like you and me, except their hard on their luck so they're choosing to do sex work and so we should make it as legal as possible for them.

The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help.

Like assuming gun owners are all rational people or motorcycle riders should be able to make the correct decision about protecting their head.

Some things in life, the state should deter people from doing in everyway possible because it's just extremely horrible for humans to engage in.

[grapeskin]

> The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help.

This isn’t true and it varies by region and country. It’s a very condescending view.

Some are people looking to pay for college. Some are drug addicts. Some are people who struggle academically and have untreated disabilities and found sex work is something that they can do. Some are people who want side money to buy a Gucci bag or something.

Most sex workers aren’t 80 pound meth addicts walking under a highway overpass at 3 am. In 2022, most sex workers are making deals online, in clubs, and various institutions. Plus there’s the whole sex streamer business which is absolutely massive.

[sofixa]

> The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help.

That's just bullshit. Maybe it's valid for some subset of sex workers in some jurisdiction where sex workers is illegal and dangerous so only few really desperate people do it, but it's a ludicrously bad sweeping statement.

In places where sex work is legal, regulated, safe and with healthcare, that's simply untrue, verifiably so.

[Flatcircle]

Not in America. In America there’s not enough workers for regular jobs. And academic studies should be taken with a grain of salt in this context. For one, sex workers are known to lie about their motivations. And two, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that a middle aged woman would rather not perform oral sex on a stranger in a back alley for 20 bucks. They only do it for a fast fix.

[andi999]

"The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help" maybe this correlation holds because prostitution is illegal. In the sense that non drug addicts wont choose it because of the illegality.

[elzbardico]

No. This holds even for countries where prostitution is legalized and widely accepted by society.

[andi999]

Check out claim 9 https://prostitutescollective.net/fact-and-fiction/

[PickledHotdog]

Source?

[elzbardico]

Real life.