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[https://twitter.com/johnnylemuria/status/1464990476142923782 Long John Lemuria] | |||
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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. | |||
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYgtae9bsQ Why Sex Work Should Be Destigmatized, Not Just Decriminalized] [https://reason.com/video/2022/12/07/why-sex-work-should-be-destigmatized-not-just-decriminalized/] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYgtae9bsQ Why Sex Work Should Be Destigmatized, Not Just Decriminalized] [https://reason.com/video/2022/12/07/why-sex-work-should-be-destigmatized-not-just-decriminalized/] | ||
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* [[GrandTurion]], "[https://twitter.com/GrandTurion/status/1601765930857803776 Yes, neither racial prejudice nor prejudice against sex workers should be promoted by a libertarian presidential candidate. Excellent point. 👍]" | * [[GrandTurion]], "[https://twitter.com/GrandTurion/status/1601765930857803776 Yes, neither racial prejudice nor prejudice against sex workers should be promoted by a libertarian presidential candidate. Excellent point. 👍]" | ||
Revision as of 08:21, 16 December 2022
“ 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.
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
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
