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CMV: Sex work should be discouraged.

When I met my girlfriend she was really close to doing it. She had deep issues with self esteem, she was approaching her mid 20's with no discernible direction in her life, she was getting frustrated with her job and she had a close friend who was already doing it and making good money. This is a perfect storm for a girl to get into sex work. But I think it would have been a decision which irreparably damaged her if that was the path she chose.

I don't hold anything against sex workers. I don't think they have less inherent worth as a human being.

But I do think that you should discourage anyone you know and care about from being involved in it, and I don't think there are many if any good reasons to do it.

I believe (from my limited experience) that the majority of those who get into sex work have issues with mental health and especially self worth. I believe that a majority of those who do it are vulnerable people who become even more vulnerable through sex work. I believe that when you put a price on yourself like that and let yourself be treated like an object it would be extremely hard for it to not have a negative impact on your self esteem.

Mostly I believe that there are so many things that a human being can be and achieve in our society and that it's a deadend job which obviously doesn't offer much upward mobility. It's a quick way to make good money, and I think most girls who do it probably regret it, and the ones who don't would if they weren't so fucked up by the experience.

I would like to believe differently though.
gpt
Do you have evidence for your claim that "most" people who get into sex work have self esteem issues?

And, do you think the problem is sex work as a concept, or do you think it perhaps has more to do with the structures, stigmas, and potential dangers of sex work in its current form?

Furthermore, sex work is already extraordinarily discouraged. Prostitution is literally illegal in the US, and sex workers pretty often say the worst thing about their job is the stigma - a very intense amalgamation of all the discouragement expressed toward sex work.