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What makes sex work special, though? Why is it somehow less moral for sex to be sold for money than it is for any other sort of labor?

Question's kinda rhetorical, in the sense that the answers are rather uncomfortable to capitalist socioeconomics and the beneficiaries thereof.

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It's rooted in the sexist idea that women are not capable of making decisions about their sexuality.

There's a weird double standard around "love is love" for women. No one is concerned if an adult male has sex with a substantially older partner or engages in sex work, but if a young (adult) woman dates an older man or decides she wants to be a sex worker it's considered fraught.

This is a relic of the patriarchal order that many feminists still cling to.

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