Sex work

“ We hold that no action which does not infringe the rights of others can properly be termed a crime. We favor the repeal of all laws creating “crimes without victims” now incorporated in Federal, state and local laws —such as laws on voluntary sexual relations

— Libertarian Party National Platform, 1972

“ 2.10 Sex Work The Libertarian Party supports the decriminalization of prostitution. We assert the right of consenting adults to provide sexual services to clients for compensation, and the right of clients to purchase sexual services from consenting sex workers.

— Libertarian Party National Platform, 2022

Libertarian Sex Workers and Sex Workers’ Rights Activists

https://lpedia.org/wiki/Category:Sex_Workers_Rights_Activists

• Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography
• Aella
• Cathy Reisenwitz
• https://twitter.com/WIMissScarlet

Libertarian Sex Workers

• Belle Knox
• Christina Parreira
• Molly Smash

Legalization, decriminalization

• Belle Knox, “Prostitutes Are People, Not Criminals”, Rolling Stone

Destigmatization, normalization

“ I want sex work to be normalized. I want the sex worker to be treated no differently than the butcher, baker, or candlestick maker.

— Long John Lemuria

“ Sex work is work. Normalize it if you care about saving our lives. If you don’t care about saving our lives, continue to spout nonsense about not normalizing it.

— Molly Smash [1]

• Why Sex Work Should Be Destigmatized, Not Just Decriminalized [2]

• https://twitter.com/CathyReisenwitz/status/1601359208892334080
• https://twitter.com/CathyReisenwitz/status/1599873941182431232

• GrandTurion, "Yes, neither racial prejudice nor prejudice against sex workers should be promoted by a libertarian presidential candidate. Excellent point. 👍"

“I want to control you with my morals. I won’t use gov. force, I’ll just keep your job stigmatized, assuring it won’t ever become decriminalized because of this, & allow the street abusers, traffickers, & SW murders to follow through with my hate spewing nonsense to control you”

https://twitter.com/deltaasherhill/status/1601642511399022592

This tweet (and responses) demonstrate why classically liberal ethics of tolerance and laissez faire are necessary prerequisite for libertarian politics to ever take hold. Intolerance leads us in the opposite direction and provides the foundation for the authoritarian state.

https://twitter.com/RobertiLax/status/1465321178441125890 Robert Lax

normalizing it means that at the very least, regardless of your view on whether it's a good career path or isn't - that you uphold its legality and the full equal rights of sex workers to consensually participate in society.

https://twitter.com/802libertarian/status/1590763383988441089 Archie

Walter Block

https://cdn.mises.org/Defending_the_Undefendable_2018.pdf

• Former sex worker Kaytlin Bailey on destigmatizing America’s oldest profession