"Agency is also a major issue in the ongoing debate within government and policymaking circles as well as among scholars about the legalization, decriminalization, and criminalization of sex work. Supporters of criminalization (of sex workers or clients) tend to undervalue the issue of agency and portray sex workers as victims. Supporters of decriminalization or legalization tend to stress the value of the choice of those involved"—Euchner & Knill (Citation2015). >

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547

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"The most dangerous aspect of this trade-off isn’t the loss of privacy—it’s the loss of awareness that we’re losing anything at all. We’re not just losing skills and privacy; we’re losing the ability to recognize what independence feels like. The question isn’t whether convenience is worth the cost of liberty—it’s whether we’ll recognize what we’ve lost before we forget we ever had it."—Josh Stylman >

https://truthunmuted.org/digital-control-how-engineered-dependency-erases-our-autonomy/

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"Agency is also a major issue in the ongoing debate within government and policymaking circles as well as among scholars about the legalization, decriminalization, and criminalization of sex work. Supporters of criminalization (of sex workers or clients) tend to undervalue the issue of agency and portray sex workers as victims. Supporters of decriminalization or legalization tend to stress the value of the choice of those involved"—Euchner & Knill (Citation2015). >

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547

#selfagency #sexwork #policymaking #swerf in the #state #socialstigma #decriminalization vs #abolitionism #xwork #agency

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Decide what you deserve; then accept nothing less.

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