In many cases sex work is not a physically or emotionally healthy way to support yourself.
In every case it is a limited career that does not scale with age, while inculcating habits and attitudes that make traditional employment or switching industries difficult.
>In many cases sex work is not a physically or emotionally healthy way to support yourself.
It's a popular opinion, but is it also true? For example sex professions aren't regarded specially in Germany or Sweden, do you think those people are damaging themselves more than any of the more "legitimate" professions?
Yes, but they come up less frequently in discussions because they're less prevalent. Anyone can have sex, but fewer people can do something like being a wrestler, which also tends to be a crappy job except for a few superstars. Even those superstars can't do the job for very long before physical or emotional breakdown settles in.
Sex "work" is a "job" where the less experienced you are, the more "employers" will want you. What other job prefers inexperienced people? Only exploitative ones do.
We don't want to put people in a place where the only choices available to them are shitty ones. We want a world in which everyone can make a choice they truly want and would still take even when all circumstances in their life are optimal.
Powerful, happy, balanced, rich people do not tend to work in the sex trade. Can you imagine Condolezza Rice or Hillary Clinton or Marissa Mayer deciding that porn or prostitution is what they really wanted to do all along but just could never find the time for?
>Can you imagine Condolezza Rice or Hillary Clinton
You say this like these people are shining examples of people doing good for mankind. They're run-of-the-mill politicians. I couldn't care less about their porn or political careers. I'm sure the void would have been filled by someone.
Sure, I'll go out on a limb and say there's a moral problem with the sex industry — in fact, the combination of the terms sex and industry strikes me as not only wrong but very sad. I didn't think disapproval of the sex industry was so obviously incorrect that we had to shame people for it, but some of the side-threads here seem to be heading that direction.
A lot of people disagree with your opinion, myself included. Morals aren't absolute, obviously, and they differ between people, but the shaming is usually directed at those who work in the sex industry from those who are morally opposed to it. I definitely agree that shaming from either side is wrong, though.
