No little girl, ever, since the beginning of time said "when I grow up, I want to be a prostitute." Woman who become prostitutes do so because they believe they have no other way to support themselves and survive. Or they're groomed and trafficed by evil people, and truly have no choice.
Hello this is not true at all. There are sex workers who choose to do that as their job not because they have “no other way to support themselves and survive”. There’s plenty of research on 2025 about why sex work exists and just like any job it’s because of supply and demand
It’s more troubling to me to think about why their customers exist.
The issue is that they have no rights and protections as sex workers, no unions or federal agencies that protect them. Someone with their own company can invest in an IRA. How can a sex worker invest in an IRA if they can't LEGALLY claim their wages?
Yes, prostitute exists because there's a demand. In the US, prostitution is illegal so workers face fines & imprisonment for doing their work. They risk disease, abuse and death for doing their work. They have no health insurance for doing their work. They have no recourse against unfair employers.
Everything you wrote is effectively true about someone working in a farm or slaughterhouse or factory.
OSHA protects workers from unsafe work environments. Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board to name a few, are federal agencies designed to protect workers. Unions protect workers rights. Where do sex workers go to have their rights protected?
Lulz. That’s what they’re SUPPOSED to do. They aren’t always effective at all.
And certainly not now that they have been gutted.
Plenty of people choose sex work over, say, food service or retail because they’re aware of all the gaps. In the other regulated jobs, there’s a ton of wage theft, you can’t make your own hours, you can’t turn a customer away if they give you the creeps, etc.
Sex work can absolutely be a good wage earning job. But there is no health insurance, 401Ks and no protection by unions or federal agencies that protect workers of any kind. They are on their own.
Yes. And sex workers know that full well. This isn’t a secret.
They certainly face discrimination and are ostracized for doing their work. They have no rights in this country for doing their work. They are an expendable commodity.
People are not an expendable commodity. (If this was true about sex work, the sex robots would be stealing all the jobs.)
Humans are not an expendable commodity however in our society sex workers ARE viewed as an expendable commodity because they have no protections, no unions and no rights under federal agencies that protect workers. And as far as sex robots replacing sex workers...stand by.