University of Leicester provides a Student Sex Work Toolkit (I went to uni to learn how to be a prostitute, didn't you?)

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[–]persistentlywoman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I didn't get to go to uni. I was doing sex work instead.

not all of the women here have pristine perfect backgrounds. just because you've been sheltered in certain ways didn't mean we all got that. radical feminists seem determined to provide their own barriers to more women willing to get involved.

[–]lefterfield 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

...What are you on about? Radical feminists do not say that women who were involved in sex work can't be a part of the movement. Many radical feminists were, and now speak out against it. But it is not appropriate for a college to be promoting prostitution to students. If you think it is, you have an ethical problem that has nothing to do with your background.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am very sorry that you had to do “sex work” and could not attend university. I hope that you are in a place where you want to be now.

I did not mean my post to look down on “sex workers,” only the system that forced them into it. I meant my post to show anger at the university: rather than accept this fad of voluntary and enthusiastic “sex work” among young women, privileged enough to attend university, I feel that the university’s job, like every other educational institution, is to prepare young women for careers where they use their brains.

I feel that the university’s actions are more of this push to make women’s bodies into market places: “sex work,” surrogacy, porn actresses are all now touted as viable money makers by “Progressive”political parties globally.

My fear is that given the push to normalize, even celebrate, “sex work” governments will soon force women into “sex work” before allowing them unemployment benefits.

And when universities start touting “sex work” as a career, it will trickle down to other educational systems and into society, like Queer Theory and other ideologies now wreaking havoc in normal people’s lives did.

About seven years after I graduated, I volunteered with women forced into prostitution in one of the poorest countries on Earth. These women weren’t cam girls or sugar babies, looking for their next expensive purse.

They were forced into “sex work” sleeping with sometimes 20 men a day, often also unwashed and desperately poor men, in filthy conditions, sometimes on the street itself.

These women’s clothes were in tatters, they were horrifically malnourished - like skeletons - and were riddled with disease, including AIDS and Hep C. They were forced to have children they couldn’t afford on any level, who became street children also forced into “sex work.”

So my position is that no woman should ever be forced to have to consider “sex work,” and so for a university, a place of privilege, to push this idea as if it were a career choice, like dentistry, is, to me, very much of a slippery slope.

And, as we’ve seen with gender ideology, once these crazy ideas that originate in places of "higher learning" get out into the wild, they can cause massive damage to women all over the world.

[–]SharpTomorrow 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn't you rather go to the university instead of being a prostitute? Do you believe prostitution improves the condition of women as a class? Didn't you have a pimp, virtual or not? Did Johns give a single fuck about you? Nobody here is telling you what to do, but just like there is systemic racism, there is systemic sexism and porn or prostitution are just yet another expression of that sexism. Do you understand that or not? Do you understand that you can't call yourself a feminist if you're not also marxist and acknowledge that the sexual exploitation of women is very much class warfare?

This is the difference between GC and "libfems", "libfems" aren't feminist because they are not marxist, they serve their corporate masters very well. The woman's body isn't yet another commodity to be sold. "libfems" is the male vision of feminism. Go read Marx and see what he had to say about prostitution.

GC doesn't trivialize prostitution and call it "sex work", a shitty euphemism. Like sucking dicks for "a living" is the same as flipping burgers? curiously, straight males are reluctant to do that themselves /s