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I think the term 'Sex Worker' leaves the absurd and ridiculous label 'prostitute' for dead. After all logic tells us that anyone who sells their body for financial reward could possibly also apply to those who spend long hours sweating in a factory for a boss.

Even if that logic is not acceptable to some (after all the morality of the 'sex for sale act' has always been brought into question by Church Leaders, the pious and the bigoted for centuries.

However, no one will ever stop Gambling, Alcohol or Sex for sale. It has been an integral part of the human psyche since time immemorial. After all whatever the commodity, the demand must come before the supply. That is the rule of commerce.

Because some countries still live in the past, there are laws against this activity and while such laws exist then leeches, pimps and parasites will manipulate women in order to get a share of the profits. The USA should have learned from prohibition that pushing a human need under the carpet bring out the criminal element. Then the trouble really starts.

Once sex slaves and drugs become bedfellows and women are lured in drug habits then social problems become even worse.

There are taxes on alcohol and gambling and both are regulated in most western countries. Why doesn't this also apply to the other human vice that will also be there.

I am a woman and not a sex worker. I've been lucky that I had a good education a successful company and an excellent inheritance otherwise...who knows!

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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