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* [https://twitter.com/deltaasherhill/status/1638978640468758540 I’m not addicted to anything unless you want to count vaping lol. I’ve worked in the industry for a decade, my sex worker friends do not have any more traumatic childhood experiences than my non-sex worker friends. Such unfounded claims contribute to the dehumanization of sex workers. Which is ridiculous. If individuals like yourself truly believed that every sex worker is either a victim of trafficking or a survival worker, then why do they use such derogatory language and treat them as though their lives are worthless?] | * [https://twitter.com/deltaasherhill/status/1638978640468758540 I’m not addicted to anything unless you want to count vaping lol. I’ve worked in the industry for a decade, my sex worker friends do not have any more traumatic childhood experiences than my non-sex worker friends. Such unfounded claims contribute to the dehumanization of sex workers. Which is ridiculous. If individuals like yourself truly believed that every sex worker is either a victim of trafficking or a survival worker, then why do they use such derogatory language and treat them as though their lives are worthless?] | ||
* [https://twitter.com/deltaasherhill/status/1639023190432272385 Try to rescue me, that won’t end well for you lol. I have news for you, I don’t need rescuing, I need rights. Even survival sex workers aren’t being trafficked, it’s simply their last means of incomes versus their other options, which might be something, or nothing. The only people who need rescuing are victims of trafficking, who are having their lives ruined by being arrested, getting a criminal record, as a means of “saving them”, and sent back into the street. Meanwhile the resources that could be used to actually rescue them and let them go are being wasted on consenting adult workers.] | |||
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Revision as of 16:23, 23 March 2023
“ 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
“ 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.
Sexual Assistance
Libertarian Sex Workers and Sex Workers’ Rights Activists
https://lpedia.org/wiki/Category:Sex_Workers_Rights_Activists
Libertarian Sex Workers
Legalization, decriminalization
- Belle Knox, “Prostitutes Are People, Not Criminals”, Rolling Stone
Consequences
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.
“ 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.
- 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
- Molly Smash, 👏🔥 Thank you Joshua! It appears that for some "liberty-minded" people, comprehending the notion of consenting adults engaging in sex work without causing harm, taking from others, or violating anyone's rights is a challenge. QT: Joshua Reed Eakle "Sex work is work."]
