⚠️ massive trigger warning for child trafficking, sexual violence, "hardcore" related matters, etc ⚠️
anti "sex work" is not anti "sex worker," and is the part opposite of excluding "sex workers" from our feminism - if you don't believe me, you can read about my own history in prostitution & porn (as a trafficked underage teen) as well as countless posts exposing the reality of the industry on my blog using tags like those below or navigate to them through my Pinned post. If you watch porn, you might even have seen videos of me as a severely malnourished 90-pound 16-year-old, dead-eyed and dissociating through being raped, bound, cut into and bled until barely conscious, suffocated, electrocuted, waterboarded, "fucked" with a rusted pocket knife, and far worse. Some of these videos were, last I checked which was very recent, still up on multiple of the biggest porn sites and some even marked as verified. No one on earth who might give a sliver of a shit about my safety ever knew where I was or what was happening during this time. I have been told I have no legal claim to the videos and cannot get them removed. Yet during that time, I was boasting about all the "easy money" I was making (I wasn't) and helping promote the narrative that porn including violent porn like that is safe, consensual, that "sex work is real work," that I was treated great and my boundaries were respected, and on and on. Why? Partly denial/copium, partly the threats and terror of what might happen if I did otherwise, and that I was "rewarded" when I did these things (not going to elaborate on this, sorry).
My experience was not an outlier. My experience was a feature, not a bug - a core part of the sex industry's infrastructure. The woman who makes multiple millions on OF through lingerie thirst traps and feet vids/pics, has someone to handle the clients for her, who wasn't in crisis and desperate for money when she decided to sign up, who always feels safe and genuinely believes she enjoys it... well, she most likely doesn't exist, but if she does, SHE is the outlier of this industry - to a point of statistical insignificance, frankly.
The level of audacity yall have coming after women who have been through the sorts of things that I have, who know the truth about this industry and try to speak out about it with the SOLE intention of PROTECTING "sex workers," from indescribable suffering and trauma at the hands of pimps, pornographers, and johns, the GALL to accuse women like us of hating and excluding from our feminism the women/girls currently going through those things? fucking EVIL. unforgivably evil.
As if most of you don't text your friends before a date with any man saying "if I don't text you by 9pm call 911," or sending them his license plate number or the address of the date location, or keeping your location active, or have a code word if you need rescue. You understand that meeting up with a strange man from Tinder is dangerous, that he "might be a serial killer," but you think it's fine and even "empowering" for an attractive, frequently bone-thin and short and unmuscular due to male sexual preferences, teen/early-20s, often desperate/homeless/addicted/single mother/starving woman (most often with unhealed preexisting sexual trauma/male violence history) to meet up with men at least twice-thrice her age in strange motel rooms, traphouses, shady apartments, kink club "after hours" events, etc etc to have her "consent" bought (then almost always he does more than "agreed" on, often shorts her or even robs her - and that's on a lucky day) while the only people who know her location are those involved. You know how I mentioned how often women going on dates take precautions because "he might be a serial killer," yeah? Did you conveniently forget that serial killers are infamous for how often they target prostituted women and others they perceive as "loose" or "immodest?" That men love enacting misogynistic violence on prostituted women because they know nobody cares about us, least of all law enforcement?
And what about all the talk of the "trans women murder rate," which people on the left rarely hesitate to point out is contributed to by the fact that soooo many of those were "sex workers" (and almost never white, btw). You seem to understand just fine how dangerous "sex work" is whenever trans people of uhh male-original-birth-certificate-owner status are at risk. Can you explain that to me?
