Reply #48: Actors, models and retail salespeople ALL "qualify as 'sex workers' technically"? [View All]

Oh, that's a good one. Way to throw a blanket over a whole bunch of people at once.

Who wants to be the first one to run down to the Best Buy and tell the guys who work the floor (preferably the ones who also work part time unloading the heavier stuff from the trucks) that they are "sex workers"?

No, wait...maybe it's just FEMALE actors, models and retail salespeople you lump into the "sex worker" category. Is that it? So if somebody's grandma works the jewelry counter at Kohl's, she's a sex worker? Or is it just the ones who are young and pretty? Is that it? Tells us a lot about you if it does. You're essentially saying that all young, beautiful women who work on the stage or in sales are the equivalent of street walkers and call girls. I thought that attitude died centuries ago. Maybe not.

And you completely skip the fact that the term "sex worker" is used by some to attempt to dignify and legitimize that which some people do not think should be dignified or legitimized--and they're not all hypocrites. Some of them simply believe the term "sex worker" is an oxymoron, because they believe sex should be reserved as an expression of love, and therefore ideally would not exist as a form of "work." (Because work is what you do to make money, whether love comes into it or not. Believe it or not, some liberals still think of sex that way.)

Now that's what I call FAIL.