Very observant of you to not at all look at the outcome of prostitution from the prostitute's side. When we ignore that then it becomes much easier to see prostitution as any other work.
I feel like when I say prostitute, I mean a person whose profession is primarily to provide intimacy in exchange for money (and that is assuming they are doing it as a job, and not because they are forced to), while you - and many others - seem to point to a mythical idealized swiz-army-councillor that offer sex, psychiatry, therapy and more without any adversity from a clientele that mostly see them as commodities. The majority of prostitutes are not treasured healers that fill an important societal niche, but instead a product of income inequality with a clientele that see them as objects for escapism. There is a reason long-time prostitution statistically go hand-in-hand with mental unhealth, substance abuse and physical injury and/or disability.
Say... how would a prostitute unionize? Who would they pressure for better working conditions? How would they negotiate salaries? How would they arrange reasonable accommodation to be able to prostitute themselves on equal grounds as other prostitutes?
What would a good pathway for a career into prostitution look like to maximize their career satisfaction and outcome? How would they organize anti-discrimination policies that protect them from loss of income if clients suddenly don't want their services because of physical features beyond their control? How would they secure financial safety in times of reduced income? How should insurance be handled?
I totally not idealize prostitution or sex work in general. Many trans people are in it, i know it's hard, in big part because of capitalism. I just choose to side with the workers in this case the prostitute, not with the puritans, i talked and read directly from prostitute, not to people who try to silence them by speaking in their place.
I think there is need to fight against forced prostitution (something cops don't do, they just harass, bully and rape street prostitutes) and to reduce inequalities so that nobody is forced to prostitute because of misery. State should also provide help for those who want to stop being prostitutes. But you can't force people who do this job because they want to to stop: doing what you want with your body is a basic liberty and also a basic principle of feminism.
There is countries where prostitution is legal. There is many advantages to this solution: it cuts a source of income for crime, there can be control to improve health and work conditions for prostitute, it gives prostitutes same rights as other workers (limited working hours, unemployment, health and retirement assurance, maternity leave, paid holidays...), better training, possibility of reinsertion into other job, it makes tax money for the state... I think ideal way to manage it would be a state monopoly on prostitution in a larger public service of sexuality, including sexologists, sociologists, psychologists, social workers... (yes that's probably utopian).
So you know, there is prostitute unions (just not recognized as union by most states where prostitution is illegal). Prostitute are organized and fight for decades for their rights, against prohibition, against police, against violent clients, to have same rights as other workers, there is very high solidarity between prostitute, they don't care if you're cis or trans, if you're local or stranger, they support themselves. Their fight is just put into silent by anti sex puritans and there so called "feminists" allies.
Sex with strangers for money isn't a need. That's just masturbation and power. Happier people would seek out a relationship, or have sex within an existing relationship.
That said, I don't mean nuclear 'approved by christians(tm)' relationship. I just mean any relationship at all where two or more people are committed and intimate with each other in a way that is closer than friendship.
A mismatch in sexual needs inside of a relationship can be solved in many ways. We shouldn't live in a society where prostitutes are needed because of that.
I don't like that we approach this from the perspective of "people need fuck, so we need people who give them fuck". Systems of thought like that will lead to finding ways to create a supply of workforce. My very clear example if the American Military. To make sure they have a steady supply of grunts, they recruit among college-aged students who are either already in debt from studies, or want to study without debt. So, obviously, the military is very much against lowering tuition costs fro college, and against student loan forgiveness. Currently, sex work works mostly on a similar paradigm. The sex work industry needs new young fresh bodies to sell to sleazes, and if these fresh young bodies don't desperately need the money, they aren't going to want to do the sex work (usually), so it is useful that these people are poor and in debt, because they can more easily be coerced into selling themselves.
You're the one who is overly idealistic here: for some of us, it's really hard to find relationship or even sex (people who are shy, ugly, autistic, disabled, trans...). Relationship market is unfortunately really non-egalitarian. I never went to prostitute but i understand some people do this choice.
I agree that in a society with better sex education and more sexual liberty, there would probably be a lower need for such services.
As pro sex feminists state, if used right, sex can be a tool to take some of the power back from the patriarchy.
In some countries prostitution is legal and regulated, and hopefully that affords the prostitutes a better working condition. It's my opinion that other countries don't legalize it more because of the salacious nature of it, and not to protect women. (Protecting women gets a lot more lip service than action in so many developed countries.) It's not called the world's oldest profession for nothing. There's a demand for commercial sex, and where there's a demand there will be sellers.
I really agree with you here: politicians are all talk on this subjects (when they aren't even using women rights as an excuse for in fact attacks on their liberties).
We are also unfortunately in a capitalist society. Banning prostitution is something societies tried to do for centuries, it never worked, because there is a demand. Question is if we want a regulated and controlled market or a illegal one which is worse for both prostitute and their clients. Here in France, they pass a law that punish the client. It doesn't work as so called anti sex "feminists" intend: prostitute were force to hide, which reduce the number of clients they have, which make them force to accept some clients and practice they would otherwise refuse, which make it also easier for cops and violent clients to beat them, stole their money and commit sexual abuse, as a whole it widely degrade the working condition of prostitutes.
For the "fuck andrew tate" in that a lot of that sounds pretty much like Tates misogyn bullshit if I am honest...
I do like the "respect yourself" message you give, I really dislike the "don't respect women" message that is underlying it...
Andrew Tate is currently in house arrest in Romania waiting for a trial, alongside his brother for multiple rape and humans trafficking charge: so much for the so called alpha man (in fact just the typical woman hater incel)!
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