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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Sex work is illegal because giving people the ability to use something they own (their body) as their own means of production removes a barrier to success, causing some of the power to slip away from the owning class. If I can charge $200 an hour for hole rental services I don't have to work a corporate job, which means my labor can't be exploited. This is (for the owning class) of course a bad thing.

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

(1) That logic doesn't stop people from working independently at one of many different other trades, and (2) sex work if legalized would gravitate towards a corporate vs. independent breakdown of jobs just like other trades. It's not like porn stars aren't making money for the "owning class."

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't have anything to add as I agree, just wanted to say your username gave me a chuckle!

...Unless I'm actually an idiot and it wasn't a geology pun lol :P

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

It is a pun thank you I worked really hard on that username 🥹

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Sex work is legal! Maybe not in your puritanical shithole, but in sane countries it is.

[–] computerscientistII@lemm.ee -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Really? You are willing to shag anybody for merely $200? Or, more probably, 4 people for 50$ each?

Don't oversimplify this whole problem. It is, like almost all problems, not a black and white problem.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

It's literally impossible for people to figure out price points for goods and services. This is famously why free markets have never existed.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

My friend i'll shag people for free.