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CMV: If you celebrate sex workers and support their right to work in their chosen profession, it's ridiculous to shame people for hiring those same sex workers

I've seen this come up a lot lately for some reason. It seems many people who are extremely pro sex-worker's rights are vehemently anti customer-of-sex-worker. My confusion is, how do you expect them to make any money without people on the other end of the transaction? I have seen the argument made that it's the customers objectifying the workers which makes it different, but they are *literally selling their bodies as an object* so I don't see that as a valid argument.

Personally I support the rights of sex workers as well as people who employ the services of sex workers. I just don't think those two things can logically be separable.

Edit:

Some clarifying points - I'm talking about it being hypocritical to *celebrate* sex work while shaming those willing to employ them, not merely agreeing that they should have a right to do such work while holding personal convictions against it. This is not the same as supporting free speech for those who say things you disagree with.

Second, I'm talking about shaming for the mere act of employing a sex worker. Those who commit assault (sexual or otherwise), rob people, cheat on their significant other, participate in an activity they publicly condemn, etc. in the process are of course deserving of criticism, shame, and legal repercussions as the case may be, just as they would be if they committed those acts in any other situation.

Yes exploitation and shitty people exist. That's not what I'm talking about here.

No I won't call out individual people on my twitter feed for holding the views that sparked this post, I started seeing it a lot and got the impression it was a widely held view, maybe it's not.

I also made a poor choice of words in saying "they are literally selling their bodies as an object." Those who called me out for that were right to do so. What I meant was that selling the service of sex is inherently objectifying, not that they are giving up their rights as a human.

I believe I explained the delta I awarded, but if it wasn't clear - it was not for changing my overall views on the topic, but changing my view that someone couldn't reasonably have the opinion I dislike. It breaks down to societal opinions held about people based on their valuation of sex as a commodity, which applies whether it's in relation to sex work or not. It's a societal opinion I don't agree with, but it makes sense of the views I've seen from people. You should read it.

Please also read the comments I already responded to, it's not at all the same as drug dealer/drug user, cop/criminal, etc. See the gambling and littering examples I responded to.

Lastly, those claiming I have no firsthand exposure to the industry are simply wrong. I've been on both sides of it.
gpt
> It seems many people who are extremely pro sex-worker's rights 

This does not exactly mean that you're pro-sex work it just means you want them to have more rights.

The most common reason why people are pro-sex rights is so those people are less vulnerable to exploitation(pimping), sexual crimes etc.

Most of them would most likely prefer to live in a world without sex work but that's harder than to make the job save for now.