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[–]julesburm1891 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Out of curiosity, why would anyone want to go into prostitution in Detroit? It sounds like a great way to get murdered and your body be left in an abandoned building for god knows how long.

(Her university on her sweatshirt is in Detroit for non-American users.)

[–]SerpensInferna 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

For the past few years, sex work has seriously been pushed as a positive and empowering experience. Especially for women. Anyone that speaks out about the harsh and dehumanizing realities of prostitution is now labeled a SWERF (sex work exclusionary radical feminist). I wish I was making that up.

These girls are privileged and view it as a toe-dip into a seedy and edgy adventure. It is nothing like the desperate situations most prostitutes are actually in.

I never used to think this, but I guess this is what happens when a generation is raised with no real problems and told they are all incredibly special with a great destiny the world owes to them.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never used to think this, but I guess this is what happens when a generation is raised with no real problems

I don't know that that's fair to say. Maybe it's a bit of speculation here, but I'm honestly inclined to guess that many of the people who are so positive about prostitution/sex work on social media probably come from financially secure backgrounds (which many of us in the younger generations have not..). They haven't realized that so many people who engage in prostitution worldwide do it only because they are incredibly desperate for money, food, shelter, etc. because they haven't before dealt with the threat of losing access to their basic necessities.