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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
traroth:
What's really sad in today's comic is to which extent it is hard for May to believe something good is coming her way. She is just waiting for the whole thing to fail, as it probably happened to her several (many?) times before...
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Aug 2020, 21:21 ---That doesn't mean that all labour is equally exploitative.
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Nor does it mean that stripping or sex work are inherently more exploitative.
I know a lot of people who have worked physically manual jobs for years and are left with injuries because of it - my partner, for example, is a theatre tech and has had multiple concussions, has a permanent foot injury, etc. etc.
British law also allows you to volunteer to sacrifice certain employment rights - which she does, because theatre work sometimes consists of 18 hour shifts, or a late start leading into an early finish, etc. etc. and there are many theatre productions that simply would not happen without those rights being sacrificed.
People like this are rarely considered to have been exploited, and yet sex workers are.
For the record, my point here is not to state that sex workers are not exploited; simply that capitalism is inherently exploitative, and that it is illegality which provides the majority of the unique risks in sex work. Physical damage, assault, harassment, psychological damage, plenty of other jobs have all of that as a risk.
Many people do not object to the risks of sex work, they object to the 'sex' of sex work. A perfectly pleasant transaction between a sex worker and their client - high level customer service, a polite customer, needs requested clearly and met, an agreed price set - is inherently 'damaging' as far as some people are concerned.
That said, I am sensing I need to snip a whole bunch of this thread and start a new one about sex work specifically or add it onto another thread?
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Beast_Reborn on 26 Aug 2020, 18:54 ---All forms of sexual labor, including stripping, are ethically risky under capitalism, [...]
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Why, the only ethics of capitalism is that greed is good. If you're not greedy, you cannot gain the special status of being capitalist, and without greed, you cannot improve or even just keep the status of capitalist. There is no other actual ethical imperative in this system.
For example just check out what capitalism did to christmas. Many people hate christmas because its so materialistic nowadays.
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 27 Aug 2020, 04:10 ---The few strip clubs I've been dragged to are literally the most depressing places I've ever been to. [...]
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Why, thats exactly what I would expect ... and thankfully nobody has ever tried to drag me to such a place.
To be honest, I'm not even sure my country (Germany) has such places.
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 27 Aug 2020, 07:00 ---British law also allows you to volunteer to sacrifice certain employment rights [...]
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You cannot "sacrifice rights".
Or do you know a way to "sacrifice" a human right ?
And thanks to a certain Mrs Tatcher, british law isnt exactly exemplary in regards to worker rights.
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 27 Aug 2020, 07:00 ---Many people do not object to the risks of sex work, they object to the 'sex' of sex work. A perfectly pleasant transaction [...]
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And I'm sure some slave owners have been super nice to their slaves, too. That changes nothing.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 27 Aug 2020, 07:00 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Aug 2020, 21:21 ---That doesn't mean that all labour is equally exploitative.
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Nor does it mean that stripping or sex work are inherently more exploitative.
...
... it is illegality which provides the majority of the unique risks in sex work.
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I mean... I'm sure you're right.
Does that mean those risks don't count or something?
N.N. Marf:
I like the first frame, seeing a character from the back is quite nice but rare. I think often the person drawing is not used to drawing the back side of characters that it comes out weird, but here, despite the rarity of the angle, it came out quite well.
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--- Quote from: Thrillho on 27 Aug 2020, 07:00 ---That said, I am sensing I need to snip a whole bunch of this thread and start a new one about sex work specifically or add it onto another thread?
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I replied in the ``victimless crimes'' thread.
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