• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Opposing the sex industry is a common and principled left stance. It is only in capitalist countries where their cops are funded to harrass people and Johns are rarely punished where there has been a need for a “sex work is work” movement.

    In countries run or established by communists, they were often facing racial or otherwise imperialist systemic rape (“comfort women” for Japanese imperialists, for example), recognized how this worked in both slavery and “transactional” capacities, and correctly banned it. Things like erotica were swept up in this total purge of marketing sex, and enforcement is inconsistent as it is usually regional.

    Please so your best to educate yourself, be accurate in your summaries, and to not be sinophobic.

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      2 months ago

      Sex workers are workers, end of story.

      I understand you Americans have fucked up views on sex workers and treat them like shit, but that is on you.

      Also Australia women were taken as comfort women by Japan, and yet we still legalise and protect our sex workers.

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        2 months ago

        Sex workers are workers, end of story.

        Most things labelled “sex work” are actually human trafficking and most Western left groups that oppose expansion of the sex industry and even want it banned are made up of former “sex workers”. So no, not end of story, you do need to actually investigate the topic and understand it as more than a slogan.

        I understand you Americans have fucked up views on sex workers and treat them like shit, but that is on you.

        This is not exclusive to the United States.

        Also Australia women were taken as comfort women by Japan, and yet we still legalise and protect our sex workers.

        Was Australia occupied and had its people constantly forced into slavery roles, including rape, by the occupiers? Comparing a handful of captured during the war vs. decades of occupation and society-level abuse is disgusting.

        Since you are presumably in Australia, can you tell me some stats on human trafficking there?

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        2 months ago

        If your mom had to start working as a prostitute from now on, would you think this is ok because all work is work?