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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Selling your body is just another normal student job now apparently

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Blackberrypiesforbreakfast · 25/09/2018 23:09

A sex workers cooperative actually have a stand at a university freshers fair. I am really scared by how quickly this is being normalised.

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ICantBelieveIDidThis · 28/09/2018 22:27

nordicmodelnow.org/2017/07/04/whats-wrong-with-prostitution/

Prostitution as a job prematurely ages you, leaves you at risk of disease and injury.

They really need to do their research...

OlennasWimple · 28/09/2018 23:38

Personally I'm very grateful that there are people who go down sewers to clear fatbergs (and work in abbatoirs, perform open heart surgery and teach reception aged children - all things that I would be spectacularly terrible at)

I'm not grateful that there are women who are prepared to receive money so that men may gain access to their bodily orifices.

Coyoacan · 29/09/2018 05:48

No jobcentre has ever offered a job as a prostitute and no jobcentre ever will

I love your certainty. It seems like only yesterday that women didn't have penises.

TurfClub · 29/09/2018 07:07

As I understand it that is a blatant lie.

www.urban75.net/forums/threads/jobcentre-plus-taking-ads-for-escort-jobs.145678/

some sex jobs were restricted in 2010 though

DJLippy · 30/09/2018 12:01

No jobcentre has ever offered a job as a prostitute and no jobcentre ever will,

Have you ever been in a job centre? Do you not realise how much working class women are despised by the establishment in this country? Look at the abuse of those girls in Rotherham/Rochdale/Telford. Those in authority knew what was happening but they didn't care cos they were just 'little slags.' Universal Credit is a system which forces women to remain in coercisve relationships designed without the slightest regard of the years of practice which ensured benefits were paid to mothers - all mothers, just encase the father was abusive.

Meanwhile the burden of austeristy falls onto women - 86% of cuts enacted against them.
It might be easy if you are not from the class of women who sell sex but I am. I see how desperate people are round my ends now. This issue makes me so very very angry.
The fact that is being normalized at an elite level terrifies me.
I don't think it will happen tomorrow nobody is saying that. It is a drip drip drip. Pimps want it normalised. Sanitised. Justifed.

LassWiADelicateAir · 30/09/2018 12:30

A 2015 study by Swansea University found that nearly 5% of students had been a sex worker at some point in their lives, and more than 20% had considered sex work to help pay their bills

I'm sure many people, men and women, have considered many unpleasant, dubious, unwise, unsafe and downright criminal actions when faced with a difficult bill and then decided not to do any of them.

XXaghast · 30/09/2018 12:31

Good article there, the brush box incident was dealt with effectively via social media, we need the same here.

"sex work is work" - in the era of #metoo I don't think so and peddling this nonsense is obvious grooming of teenagers and overall objectification of women by using peer pressure to bypass healthy boundaries.

Sexual health clinics run by the NHS are the service students are and should be directed to, this blatant pimp stand at a freshers fair is grim and the opposite of healthy.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 30/09/2018 12:44

It might be easy if you are not from the class of women who sell sex but I am

Likewise. And, apart from those invested in the industry, I can't help noticing that most of those defending 'sex work as work' also TWAW are either male or from a more elite background where they carefully consider other women's choices as 'free' without having a fucking clue that no choice is made in a vacuum.

Estellesylvia · 30/09/2018 12:54

Most women who declare earnestly that ‘sex work is work and valid!’ would throw up their hands in horror and run for the hills if actually invited to suck some fat sweaty man’s cock for a tenner.

What these dim libfems mean is that sex work is work for poor women. Not for them, heaven forfend.

ErrolTheDragon · 30/09/2018 15:47

A 2015 study by Swansea University found that nearly 5% of students had been a sex worker at some point in their lives, and more than 20% had considered sex work to help pay their bills

So, it's a little ambiguous but 15 or 20% of students considered sex work but realised it was a bad idea. What effect might stands at freshers fairs normalising 'sex work' have on them? Does anyone seriously think that nudging students towards 'sex work' is in any way a good thing?

Estellesylvia · 30/09/2018 16:11

Here’s the gender studies professor backing the stand at Brighton. Your basic average libfem nightmare. She likes to retweet Paris Lees.

As I said before, watch her response n shrieking for the hills should anyone suggest SHE shags some sweaty fucker with halitosis for ten quid herself.

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