This stuff really bugs me.

I'm about sick to death of the assumption that sex is inherently bad/evil/sinful, which is the obvious root of why sex work is assumed to be inherently bad/evil/sinful.

Ever walked into a McDonald's Mr. Herbert? Why are you not calling for the abolition of fast food restaurants? Why not make sweeping generalizations about the dazed seventeen year old cashiers who dropped out of high school to support their children and drug-addicted, abusive parents and boyfriends?

Oh, that's right. Then there'd be no one to ring up your greasy half-cooked burgers and fries. We couldn't have that, now could we?

I've had a piece on trafficking on the back burner for some time now, hampered by research sources. Unfortunately, every source I can find automatically conflates trafficking with prostitution, without ever making the proper case for a cause-effect relationship. It's just assumed without merit, and every single source I've looked at simply adds in statistics about sex work and then says something like "see how bad trafficking is? Look at all the sex workers!"

Some of them even go to great lengths to denounce the movement to legalize sex work, and accuse those who advocate it of being a causation of trafficking, without ever considering that the two are separate issues, or ever exploring the idea that if sex work were legal, there'd be no reason for trafficking in people for sex work.

It's all part and parcel of the assumption that sex and sex work are inherently bad/evil/sinful. That just pisses me off.

Kisses,

JanieBelle

Dream a little dream of me.