It is 2025. Prostution is legal. Thousands of women who can’t pay their student loans or cant pay their medical expenses or maybe just can’t pay bills working at Walmart are now working in brothels, though they have some newspeak name.
Now, radical feminists on this site have a tendency to ask hard questions and this is mine: Are women allowed to refuse service to customers? And for what reasons?
How many fast food employees are allowed to refuse to make their ex a burger? How many manicurists can turn away their grouchy neighbors? We are in a tizzy about bakers not making wedding cakes for gay couples recently so if prostitution is supposed to be like any other job then when can you reasonably refuse service at other jobs?
Your ex comes in and wants to have sex with you and the manager says you’ll lose your job if you don’t. Your dad’s friend who has been giving you creepy looks since you were 13 is now here for you at 18. We can really go on and on because these places could start making you roleplay or be flogged for BDSM or a million other things.
And another swerf post on this website recently mentioned OSHA standards for bodily fluids. According to the “regular job” propaganda, we would have to have no skin to skin contact if we really wanted it to operate like any other job.
Answer me, you human trafficking enabling cowards.
Hey, stripper here. Guess what? One of the best, the very best, parts of being a sex worker is being able to say no to a customer. I danced for 8 years(pre pandemic) and at no point did a manager ever force me to dance for a customer who wanted a dance from me. Sex work is real work, but that doesn’t mean that sex work is the exact same as other service industry jobs. In fact, one of the things I adore about being a stripper is the freedom to not have to deal with asshole customers the way I did as a waitress and a cashier. Having to sit there and take verbal abuse from customers is no longer an indignity I am forced to endure.
And you have a whole lot of fucking nerve to call people who support sex work enablers of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking flies under the radar so often because of how stigmatized sex work is, thanks to people like you. If all sex work was legalized and regulated and sex workers were treated with the respect we deserve, it would be much, much more difficult to hide victims of sex trafficking among us. So maybe stop oppressing us and forcing us to use our bodies for labor in the ways you approve of, and support full legalization and regulation. Also treating us with respect would be pretty damn nice too.
Also, fucking also, in most of the strip clubs I’ve worked at there were very large posters in the locker rooms and bathrooms describing, in both English and Spanish, what exactly it means to be sex trafficked and provides numbers for assistance. Just fyi. Plus we get to know and care about each other, and I promise you, if any of us suspected that a fellow sex worker was being trafficked, we’d do something about it. So don’t you dare call us sex trafficking enablers.