[givemeethekeys]

I’d restate the sex work argument as:

Why should someone who thinks sex work be decriminalized be automatically be thrown into the feminist camp?

[happymellon]

> Oh, you think sex work should be decriminalized? I was under the impression you feminists thought sex work was exploitative?

They aren't mutually exclusive. I can think that sex work is exploitive and at the same time not want sex workers to go to jail.

In the same way I can think drugs are bad, but locking up drug abusers is also bad.

It doesn't solve any problems and people I view as victims are the ones getting punished.

[cedilla]

Also; most sex work as it happens is exploitative, but there is no reason why sex work must necessarily be exploitative. Criminalising sex work makes it far more likely that sex work is exploitative. So there is really no contradiction at all.

(Though as nations where sex work is legal show: decriminalisation is not sufficient to make most sex work non-exploitative)