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strippr:

Ohsocontrary says it best: “The solution to this problem is not to condemn pornography and sex workers. It is to make sex work safe, regulated, and healthy.”

I’d like to add…

This is in response to this article, for which I will mention a trigger for sexual abuse. My response is specific to Piper’s thoughts, though. On the one hand, I agree: Yes, sex work should be made legal and regulated for the health and safety of all involved.

On the other hand: Can we trust those who make the law to regulate such an industry? Forgive me, but as a part of this industry, I have come to distrust “Men”—not as a whole generalization of the gender or the sex, of course, but as a recognition of the systematic oppression that has already been built in.

Which is to say, can I trust the same legal representation that still battles to repeal abortion rights, still battles to cease funding for Planned Parenthood, still battles on the whole to disregard feminist issues? How am I supposed to trust my industry to be regulated for my health and safety by folks who generally think I’m dirty for having just consciously considered sex?

The stigma is strong, and yes, it’s wrong, in the very sense Piper claims. Yet legislation won’t come to terms with that for many, many years, well past a time when a majority of the population accepts it—and we’re not even there yet. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I’m worried the grass isn’t greener on the other side.

(Source: killyourenemies)