Whether prostitution is a service or the commodification of people is a matter of opinion. It is true that most sex workers (the real kind) are driven by desperation, but so are other dangerous, unpleasant forms of unskilled labor, and there is an argument to be made that it is driven by biological urges rather than cultural norms.
The idea that sex work is inherently misogynistic is pure idealism; it is hypocrisy from liberal feminists that simultaneously declare women to be equal, and to be fragile beings that cannot stand up for themselves.
Why do most us "leftists" support prostitution...
Wyatt Allen
Nicholas James
In the first world I mean, as to not contradict myself.
Lucas Peterson
So it's bad for workers to try to reduce their amount of exploitation? A novel take for a supposed leftist but hey you do you.
Jacob Anderson
Exploiting other people and the society is not reducing your own exploitation, it is merely becoming the thing you swore to destroy. Don't even try.
Jaxson Perry
Bit of a self own there op. Might wanna delete.
Wyatt Price
o im laffin
Jack Reed
The "leftists" you are talking about are just liberals with a red fetish.
Was prostitution legal in the USSR? North Korea? No.
Prostitution only elevates some women from proletariat to petite bourgeois. It is not a leftist issue
Sebastian Wood
why is the solution terror? surely the prostitutes can learn how to sew, cook, weld, assemble cogs in a tank factory, plow fields, drive buses… I don't think people should be punished, and certainly not murdered, for the jobs they have to do in capitalism (as long as those jobs aren't counter-revolutionary, anti-leftist, murderous, destructive to society, etc.)
Jacob Reyes
Lenin clearly states how the prostitutes were harmful to society
Xavier Long
Threadly reminder:
- Being a middle class cunt and sticking your fist up your clunge on camera DOESN'T make you a representative of sex workers.
- Most people who defend sex workers are themselves johns, not even the sex workers but grubby johns who feel guilty.
- Supporting prostitution is tacitly supporting sex trafficking and slavery WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. Wherever there's a market, there are those who will seek to thrive, despite the means.
- Sex ISN'T labor. Sex being bastardized into being a commodity is an ancient ugly that we as HUMANS who seek a HUMAN society through socialism/communism should do away with. Why should we debase ourselves with this primitive, hideous tradition of prostitution?