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@amorablackrose Okay, so how do you want it implemented?
There's the nordic model where selling sex is legal, but buying is a criminal offence. This still pushes sex workers underground because otherwise there are no buyers and landlords fear brothel-keeping charges.
Then there's full legalization creating massive bureaucratic hurdles while still pushing people underground because even when it's normalized, barely anyone wants to have "sex worker" on their résumé when looking for another job.
@BototmnisShorter @amorablackrose Sure, you can look at this through rose tinted glasses, but let's be serious about this for a moment.
Mind you, I'm not against sex work, but it has to be regulated to some degree. Otherwise human trafficking is very likely going to increase, which would be even worse than what we're trying to solve here.
But with regulations you create hurdles and with hurdles some people will be left behind.
You can't solve this for everyone... so again, what do you suggest?
@tecHunt @amorablackrose What regulation? How is this any different from other labor regulations, or from legalizing pot?
We don’t need to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
@BototmnisShorter @amorablackrose "No regulations" requires an even playing field among nations, and we're far from this in almost every metric. There will inevitably be variations even if something is implemented globally... and it's human nature to exploit those gaps unless we put some "ground rules" down.
Again, I'm not saying there's no issue or to "just live with the status quo", but ignoring problems that had cropped up when sex work was actually legalized is borderline subversive.
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