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It would be interesting to know how many sex workers do it due to a desperate need for money, how many were groomed or trafficked and how many turned a hobby into a career or side hustle

@matrix
It is easier for a pedophile to out himself, then for a prostitute to say she wasn't brainwashed.

@LukeAlmighty I don't buy it that they were all just brainwashed. You don't need to be brainwashed to willingly engage in self-destructive behavior.

@matrix
My point is, that it will be quite difficult to collect that data.

@matrix >desperate need for money
A lot of the ones that are "desperate for money" just turn to prostitution since it's the easy thing to do and would rather not do something like clean toilets.
@kerosene @matrix I think it requires a level of general, open-air public-school grooming to think that cleaning toilets is beneath you, or possibly dirty, but that prostitution isn't worse in both respects.
@apropos @matrix >to think that cleaning toilets is beneath you, or possibly dirty, but that prostitution isn't worse in both respects
Curiously enough the women I've talk to that were actually poor or had struggled quite a lot in life don't think this way (that whoring yourself is in any way preferable to cleaning toilets), it's only middle and upper class women that do it. Really gets your nogging jogging :thonk:

@kerosene
Minimum wage won't pay your college or your drug addiction.
Sex work isn't just prostitution but also porn, only fans, escorts etc

@matrix there's a fourth option that's probably pretty common, and it's that they have dealt with trauma of some sort and do it to seek validation.

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