The argument that people buying sexual services are bad, is a SWERF Trojan Horse in your mind.
People who commission erotica are morally neutral.
People who commission erotica art are morally neutral.
People who buy porn are morally neutral.
People who watch Cam streams are morally neutral.
People who go to strip clubs/hire strippers are morally neutral.
People who visit brothels are morally neutral.
People who hire escorts and outcall sex workers are morally neutral.
People who visit sex venues, hire kink specific sex workers etc
It's all morally neutral.
You cannot say you support sex workers, if you don't support their right to a safe industry free of needless shame and shaming.
CW: sex, discussions of sex
While we're on it, you are allowed to visit sex workers if you want to and you have the means. For literally any reason.
Maybe you're really shy, and other girls are so pretty, but they're intimidating and you feel like a win would help your confidence?
Maybe you're just stressed, you've been working really hard and you want somebody to dig their fingers into your back?
I, a former sex worker, once paid a sex worker purely to talk about their interests for half an hour because I was lacking human contact during the pandemic lockdowns and figured it would also help support them while they couldn't safely do their job. (It was mostly cats and high art) Sometimes you don't even have to have sex, sometimes it's just about company or just that tiny bit of intimacy of contact.
Decriminalisation is basically the only way to make it safe and consentual.
And to those saying you can't consent if money is involved, try dying your hair or having tattoos or piercings and working a retail job, apparently your employer has more right to dictate what you do with your body than you do... Was the chemical burns I got from one job more consentual than the heavily negotiated sex I was involved in professionally because the latter made someone cum and the former just made them richer?
Also you can, in fact, consent to stuff when money is involved. Hell, if you want to hit all the squares - tattoo removal is something many people don’t want. Many other people do want it, through. One reason you might want it is because it impacts your chances of employment (as mentioned above).
The person using a laser to remove a tattoo isn’t harming you just because one of (or even the only!) motivation behind the removal is „You know what, it’s fucking impossible to get a job with Winnie the Pooh tattooed on my face“. It would be assault if someone just forced you and put a damn laser to your cheek, but this is a choice you make - you consented.
