Anonymous #2 5d

I respect your hustle and your resilience but I do not respect the industry. I feel like both can be true at once. I’m not pro sex work.

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

Unfortunately yes

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Anonymous OP 5d

you don’t have to respect “the industry” as a structure in order to respect an individual’s career itself. for instance, I can respect a studio porn performer’s pursuit of their job without respecting the managers / directors etc who may be exploiting them. but if you can’t at least respect the job itself, you objectively are not showing respect to the workers. don’t bullshit us.

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Anonymous #2 5d

I think you’re taking this too personally tbh. You can absolutely respect the people even if you don’t fully understand/respect their occupation. I’m not aware of all the types of sex workers but I think we’re all aware enough to know many people get brought into this “industry” at a young age or it’s made to feel like their last option. The coercion makes the industry disrespectable imo

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

both of you have some real nerve talking to me as if I’m less informed on this issue than you are when I’m the one who actually has several years of firsthand experience with both the job itself and relevant advocacy work. I’m not wasting my time talking in circles, I literally just explained that you can support the career itself without approving of Every facet of the broader industry

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

it’s like how people constantly claim to be “anti-porn” as if “porn” refers strictly to violent abusive coercive material and not Also college girls comfortably making money just filming themselves getting off. some of y’all really aren’t familiar enough with the specifics to even hold a coherent conversation on the subject, yet you feel confident enough to talk over the people you’re supposedly concerned for

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

if you disapprove of sex workers being coerced then you need to listen to sex workers, take our experiences at face value and learn from us, rather than talking down to us. otherwise you sound no different from a john with a savior complex

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Anonymous #2 5d

But you keep talking about your perspective. My statement literally refers to the broader image the the industry has given off by coercing young girls and boys into an industry. The adult industry is more than just an OF. Anyone that has Amber Alerts on can see how often young kids are getting snatched, where do a lot of those kids end up? That’s where my disrespect for this industry comes from, but I’m never going to blame the people that got brought into this industry

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

you keep on proving my point further and further. a child being trafficked is by definition not the same as an adult doing sex work—“sex work” does not refer to trafficking, these are separate, and you do victims a horrible injustice by muddying definitions. you don’t understand this subject as well as you think you do, learn a little humility and stop smugly talking over people with actual familiarity in this department

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Anonymous wheres_my_supersuit 5d

I wasn’t just an OF model btw! and again, like I’ve already said, you don’t have to approve of “the broader image the industry has given off” in order to respect sex work itself as a job. respecting sex work is also not the same as respecting trafficking. that isn’t even something I would even have to explain to you if you were at least like, 101-level knowledgeable about these issues

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