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So the fact that women and girls make up the vast majority of “sex workers;” the fact that men make up the vast majority of those buying sex; https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1338505937074663424
the fact that the exchange of money negates consent (financial coercion); the fact that ptsd rates are sky high among prostituted women; the fact that the majority of prostited women want out; the fact that despite being pushed as empowering, it’s only desperate, marginalized
women engaged in street prostitution; the fact that despite the existence of poor men and wealthy women, there’s virtually no demand from women for a class of men to sexually exploit; the fact that in a society where women are financially disadvantaged, can’t access the same
employment opportunities, and are sexualized and objectified, there exists a system where men with financial power may purchase and sell women as though they’re objects; the fact that in locations where sex work is decriminalized, human trafficking rates rise due to increased
demand without increased supply (shockingly, women don’t want to sell their bodies or consent, even where it’s legal);... despite all of this, the American civil liberties union, rather than engaging with reality and acknowledging prostitution as an issue of sex inequality,
tweets the glib, pro-pimp slogan “sex is work,” calling for a decriminalization and normalization of sex work, which amounts to a normalization of the idea of women as commodities. The @ACLU is a fucking disgrace. Complete abandonment of its principles. Civil liberties for whom?
I’m making a distinction btwn women who post naked pics to only fans (which is a bad, but less severe example of women’s condition and societal exploitation) and women and girls engaged in street prostitution. Vocal proponents of sex work are generally the women who partake in
the relatively privileged facet of the sex industry, like selling feet pics online. Pimps hide behind these women to sanitize the nastier, less advertiser-friendly reality of 95% of the sex industry.
