missfreudianslit:

These people feel so superior when it comes to talking about human trafficking that revolves around sex. The reason they can feel so superior is because they do not use sexual services… “Oh, I don’t buy any porn because it’s all rape and it promotes rape culture. Strippers are skeezy and promote the objectification of our bodies! Ugh, save for the high class white ~escorts~, all prostitutes are forced into their work!” For them, there is no way to morally use sex work services.

….but the second that you bring up that forced labor takes care of their shoes, their vegetables, their meat, suddenly their moral compass tells them they can’t do anything about it. Suddenly, they’re unable to understand that forced labor comes with every industry.

Wanna know how to actually help? a) don’t further stigmatize our work b) don’t criminalize our work but instead, help us decriminalize. c) stop conflating all sex work with human trafficking d) stop talking over us and listen.

Voluntary sex workers are far more concerned about sex trafficking than these SWERFs will ever be, because it stigmatizes our work and allows patronizing assholes to write these misinformed attacks on our consensual jobs. Listen to us when sex workers speak in places like India, China, Canada, and Thailand. Don’t pretend that we’re the only ones who face rape and abuse in industry and please start to acknowledge that past tactics, like NGOs putting sex trafficking victims into slavery of other forms and call it “saving the poor whores”, aren’t wanted here anymore! 

Listen to us. More people are trafficked for domestic labor than forced sex work but you’re not boycotting work, just OUR work. Stop conflating trafficking with sex work, stop speaking over sex workers, and listen to what we have to say.