Chris, thank you so much for your post. I am glad, more than anything, that you so poignantly describe the real radical feminist need to take the shame away, to avoid hypocrisy and to support women, whether their work is sexual or not. It is so important that we do not concede the term "feminist" and so important that we see our work as morally grounded. It is.

It is about right and wrong.

Harassing sex workers until they kill themselves iswrong.

Shaming women who use their sexuality instrumentally is wrong, as is shaming men who seek sexual exchanges.

Conflating sex work, labor abuse, and trafficking is wrong.

What is right is expanding protection of labor rights and of basic human rights (including reducing inequality, providing support for the poor, and making sure everybody has health care, drug treatment and job training -- oh, yes, and jobs with livable wages) so that we can be more confident that those who do engage in sex work are doing so in conditions that are no more exploitive than most other work. 

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth