I've seen very little respect for sex workers on this board OP. They're all seen as victims or "Handmaids" here.
I've seen very little respect for punters on this board. People who are working within the sex industry (commonly called sex workers these days so we can refer to their jobs as "work like any other") are generally seen to be people with limited choice in where they work accepting there will be some exceptions to that rule but acknowledging that these people who happily choose this industry without limited choices are fairly rare - because within the grand scheme of the industry, they are. Choices may be limited by lack of money, addictions, lack of other jobs for whatever reason and coercion (whether that be pimps, trafficking or being too far down a particular road and beholden to the job). At no point have the women, children and some men involved been nymphos or immoral marriage breakers and nor should they be seen as such - the punters on the other hand ... well it stands to reason if they are married THEY are the marriage breakers and yes, I blame the men.
People working in cam work, porn, clubs and prostitution deserve respect as does any human being the dont deserve to be stigmatised by virtue of the job they are doing or the treatment they commonly receive by those using them. They are not out to steal your husband (they quite possibly dont think much of them at all) they are out to make money. This doesn't make them terrible people unworthy of respect, it makes them people who need to make money for a variety of reasons BUT it is an industry which has large proportion of its workers only doing it due to limited choice or some manner of coercion (as I said not all and for some reason those who do it freely like to come onto forums/places where it is being discussed and proclaim it loudly) but however loudly they shout they are not the majority in this industry there is plenty of evidence out there regarding this.
This is an area I wrote about and interviewed people about many years ago for work so I possibly know more than many less than others. In my experience (such as it is and it, of course, isn't definitive AT ALL or first person experience or being involved in the industry) there are a lot of sad stories and broken people involved and those who arent exist but they are not common (at all).
The push by liberal feminism (and men but I often see liberal feminism as men"s feminism anyway) in the last few years to see "sex work as work" may have had the goal of recognising the people involved need protection and a reduction of the stigma of that work which is a laudable goal but has had several other less desirable effects. Some of these effects are; normalising of sex work as a job means you can promote it to young women as a viable career option like any other - it isn't, you wont be putting it on your CV, it is often dangerous the extent of which depends on the setting and while the money is good the longevity of the job is limited and it is emotionally and physically taxing in a way no other job is. Another effect is a ripple affect on all women, you may have noticed the creeping insidiousness of the sexualising of women - and that this is going younger and younger. Well, when you promote sex work as a normal job you have the unintended result of making women more objects for the use of men and this filters down to how women (and probably children) are treated - mostly by men because the overwhelming majority of users of anyone in this industry is men. The end result is teaching tweens and teens via Vogue etc of the joys of anal and the fabulous money you can get while selling your body in the many ways it can be sold, sexualised advertising, prizing appearance in females above any other quality and increased violence towards women as porn becomes more violent. You make women (and children and some men, mostly gay young men and trans people) commodities to be bought and sold by men for men. When you give it a thin veneer of respectability make no mistake the real people winning are the men using it whether the intent was meant for the people providing the service or not.
Most feminists on this board would prefer the Nordic Model with regard to prostitution and for women"s bodies to not be commodified at all. Women make up the majority of the so called "sex workers" but you can include trans people, young men and unfortunately children (although that is just child abuse plain and simple) in that and make no mistake they are being used and abused by men. Now, it is true some may choose that path despite a wealth of other opportunities handed to them on a glittering platter but given the debilitating nature of the industry (both mentally and physically) they are few and far between (ftr this was my personal experience too when interviewing women) but it suits (mostly) men to see it as work like any other despite the fact that is clearly untrue.
I suggest OP that you look at the Nordic Model Now site and any other discussions of this or indeed any of the many books available on the sex industry I suspect someone has already linked to the Nordic model while I am blathering on.
I found this an interesting thought - it isn't mine it was a tweet of someone I follow and I am paraphrasing - If the job is so good and so many people enter it willingly why is there such a demand for trafficked women and children? And if it is a job like any other where are all the trafficked accountants, civil engineers and retail workers? You never hear of police busting an underground accountancy ring where poor accounts are found in a basement in squalor forced to do the accounts of several men a day to "pay" for their passage into the country I wonder why that might be IF it is a job like any other?
Bottom line for me is that this industry informs the treatment of women and girls in wider society and we all feel the touch of it in our daily lives whether we chose to be part of it or not you only have to look at the recent "rough sex" defences and deaths to see this play out in daily lives or watch a 14-15 year old girl be leered at and called out by men outside pubs for merely walking down the street in her jeans and t-shirt.
So while I, and probably most women on this board, have respect for the human beings involved, by which I mean the people working rather than the punters (I have very little respect for them truth be told) we are not in favour of the industry itself. We do not support the way people are treated within in it and the people who use it and use its existence as a reason or prop to treat women badly or the attempt to market it as "work like any other" because we see through that for the calculated capitalist move that it is.
I can only speak for myself when I say I do support the women working within the industry and would always help them I would try not to judge those who chose it "freely" although I do wonder if they have chose it absolutely freely as some claim to have whether they give a toss about other women but I have reason to believe those women choosing it absolutely freely are a very, very small minority. I care about those (all the people; women, men, trans people) who have not chosen it freely but I think the current methods and approach will not help them in the long term (look into Germany's legalising of prostitution and see the benefits it has brought for the women - little spoiler it hasn't helped them at all but the men running them and using them have benefited greatly).
I could go on about this - this was a feminist issue for me long before the current "gender culture wars" but feminists are NOT the enemy of women working in this industry they do not see them merely as victims or handmaidens as the quoted post suggests, the truth is far more complex and nuanced than that take. But we do see the damage the industry does to people (even those not involved directly) and we care a lot about that and, it being feminism, we care particularly about the women and children affected.