It’s remarkable how invisible class has become in discussion of an issue that is *all* about economics. To be fair to @DrJoGrady, her job is to represent students and academics, and so presumably the sex workers she’s listened to are drawn from that group https://twitter.com/DrJoGrady/status/1336786933947772935

The pro-decrim sex workers on social media and in the press are also disproportionately drawn from that group, and disproportionately likely (if anyone actually asks) to have done non-contact sex work like cam girling and stripping

You will sometimes also hear from women who are anti-decrim and have left the sex trade, e.g. @SPACEintl or child sexual exploitation survivors (yes, Rotherham was prostitution too). But funnily enough, the Romanian women who are in UK brothels right now aren’t often heard from

99% of the time, when someone says they’ve “listened to sex workers” who they’ve actually listened to is the English Collective of Prostitutes or similar. Try watching a YouTube video of some of these spokeswomen some time and notice how posh their accents are - not a coincidence

Class is often invisible online or in print, because we read it through accent and e.g. clothing. So it’s easy to ignore the different interest groups within the umbrella of “sex workers” unless you come across some glaring tell (hmmm, a PhD you say?)

I can’t think of another issue on which so many Leftists take the views of the most affluent and educated 1% of a group as representative of the whole, without considering that this 1% could well have different experiences and different class interests