Is working in the commercial sex industry a choice? Or is it the result of lack of choice? In this episode, I discuss the reasons why I do not believe that sex work is work. Having to sell access to your body in order to survive is an experience of oppression, not freedom, and it is certainly not empowerment.

There is no demand of men buying women to empower them.

For the vast majority of the world’s prostituted women, prostitution is the experience of being hunted, dominated, harassed, assaulted, and battered. Prostitution is a gendered survival strategy which involves the assumption of unreasonable risks by the person in it. Normalizing prostitution and using “destigmatizing” language is not a new tactic to “empower” prostituted women. It is something perpetrators of sex trafficking have been doing for years to hide the realities of the sex industry from young girls and keep them from seeing themselves as victims of a crime.

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