That doesn't mean that all labour is equally exploitative.
Nor does it mean that stripping or sex work are inherently more exploitative.
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... it is illegality which provides the majority of the unique risks in sex work.
I mean... I'm sure you're right.
Does that mean those risks don't count or something?
Not really sure what point I was particularly trying to make. I meant to circle back in my post and write in something about how only that one particular line was even meant to be in response to you specifically and the rest was just general musings on the topic.
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.
This struck me as quite an odd suggestion to make, so I looked it up, and evidently there's fewer than might be expected due to the legality of brothels, but there are still
plenty.
You cannot "sacrifice rights".
Or do you know a way to "sacrifice" a human right?
This reads as a bit combative to me, but I seem to have upset you somehow?
I gave a reasonably specific example in my previous post, but
here is a link to the Citizens' Advice Bureau, which references the British requirement for a maximum 48-hour working week. An employer can't make you work more than 48 hours. However, you can sign an agreement to work more than 48 hours if you like. Perhaps the language I was using was inelegant, and what is happening here is a quibble over semantics, and to you this doesn't qualify as 'sacrificing a right' (as you can renege on the agreement at any time) but to me, if you have the right to refuse to work more than 48 hours, and you choose to work more than 48 hours, you're giving up one of your employment rights voluntarily. People can sign up to be exploited.
And thanks to a certain Mrs Tatcher, british law isnt exactly exemplary in regards to worker rights.
Okay? I didn't say it was. In my fact my point was quite the opposite. Also, the last time Thatcher stood in an election I was still in utero, so I didn't vote for her if that helps. Although a lot of the UK employment law is enshrined in EU law, and in many cases has backup legislation doubling the EU legislation to safeguard it, but then in a post-Brexit world who knows.
And I'm sure some slave owners have been super nice to their slaves, too. That changes nothing.
I have no idea what you're going for here, but it pretty much seems like you're suggesting I endorse slavery which I most definitely don't.
If what you're suggesting is that all sex work is slavery, then I definitely don't agree with that either. I used the phrase 'sex work,' not 'prostitution' or 'stripping', deliberately, not for this reason, but for example... who is a camgirl working her own profile page on onlyfans, and running a business, enslaved to? Because I'd say a camgirl with her own business licence is less enslaved than a high fashion model who needs the industry itself to succeed.
Perhaps I'm expressing myself poorly, because people don't seem to be happy with what I'm saying, but the point I'm trying to get across was pretty much summed up succinctly enough by spin earlier in the thread:
All labour is exploitative under capitalism. Sex work is not unique in this regard.
...and I laboured the point because I try never to miss an opportunity to erode people's prejudices about sex work in general.