So, if I understand correctly, your argument is that this specific job is a really, really bad match for some specific people (and more specifically for their physical and mental health), right?
If that's your argument, I'm pretty sure that I can find a few other jobs that are really, really bad matches for the physical and mental health of some people.
Now, I'm sure that I can find other arguments that go in your sense. If I had a daughter, I would probably not want her to become a sex worker, because I would be scared for her physical and mental health, in addition to the potential of ostracism. No idea how I would react about a son becoming a sex worker. But then, I would also not want my child to become a soldier or a cop for most of the same reasons, or a trucker or a miner, because I imagine that both jobs are also bad for physical and mental health, or any office job that would put them under the orders of an abusive boss, or a nurse in an underfunded hospital, or an Amazon warehouse worker, etc.
So, what I'm attempting to say is:
- we agree that it's very likely that low-end sex work is most likely a really bad place to be;
- we probably agree that there are lots of really bad jobs in the world;
- there are stigmata to sex work, including social pressure and the fact that low-end sex workers are basically not protected by the law;
- seen from a comfortable distance, and with the additional luxury of not being in a shitty job (anymore), my impression is that the biggest problem of sex work is not the sex but the stigmata and that these are pretty much artificial.
If you don't want your daughter to become a whore, then why are you wishing it upon others?
There is social stigma for prostitutes in pretty much every society. As the other poster's example shows, even in Germany where it is legal not many women want to perform an intimate sexual act on random strangers. Note that most prostitutes in Germany are foreign.
The empirical fact that there is universal social stigma implies that there is a psychobiological reason for it. A woman clearly understands that no high status man would want to marry a whore, which is why women use slut shaming against other women to make them less attractive as a mate to other males.
If that's your argument, I'm pretty sure that I can find a few other jobs that are really, really bad matches for the physical and mental health of some people.
Now, I'm sure that I can find other arguments that go in your sense. If I had a daughter, I would probably not want her to become a sex worker, because I would be scared for her physical and mental health, in addition to the potential of ostracism. No idea how I would react about a son becoming a sex worker. But then, I would also not want my child to become a soldier or a cop for most of the same reasons, or a trucker or a miner, because I imagine that both jobs are also bad for physical and mental health, or any office job that would put them under the orders of an abusive boss, or a nurse in an underfunded hospital, or an Amazon warehouse worker, etc.
So, what I'm attempting to say is:
- we agree that it's very likely that low-end sex work is most likely a really bad place to be;
- we probably agree that there are lots of really bad jobs in the world;
- there are stigmata to sex work, including social pressure and the fact that low-end sex workers are basically not protected by the law;
- seen from a comfortable distance, and with the additional luxury of not being in a shitty job (anymore), my impression is that the biggest problem of sex work is not the sex but the stigmata and that these are pretty much artificial.