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(11-06-2015, 03:21 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: *words that would get too long if I quoted the nesting quotes*
No, you're right, ultimately it's the whole concept of trading sex for money that grosses people out and makes them think bad things. No matter what you call it, it's going to always have that connotation (at least unless we manage to uproot all this puritanical nonsense in our culture).
My faith in humanity dropped several points as I thought about this, but oh well, not like I had much to begin with.
It's good that you don't think bad things when you think about sex workers. I don't automatically think those things, either. But I grew up in the South, surrounded by a crapton of religious regressive right-wing wingnuts. My whole family is full of them.
If there was a bad thing to think about anyone who wasn't exactly like them, they sure thought it. I'm so used to the neutral position being impossible, much less a positive position even existing (though that's changed now that I've met people, including voluntary sex workers).
wrt your statement about trans women and the assumption of sex work: it mostly happens to POCs. In a lot of places, especially red states, trans women of color are assumed to be prostitutes by law enforcement and are often arrested and detained for nonsense charges like "manifesting prostitution."
https://www.aclu.org/blog/arrested-walki...nica-jones <- this is a good read on the subject of "walking while trans."
I'm white and I live in the SF bay area, so I don't automatically have problems with law enforcement. Even the Oakland cops are usually smiles and waves when I walk past. But because I'm both extremely poor and have lived in poor neighborhoods, I have gotten a lot of the general cis male creepers harassing me, but so much of it to the point where I just wouldn't leave the house after dark.
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