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Calling them hospitality specialists just screams liberal feminism ( note that I am no conservative either ). But I more so feel this narrative about "hospitality" is incredibly dangerous in my opinion because it just gives more men an excuse to feel entitled to sex. It's also a harsh reality most women "doing it out of choice" are severely depressed, miserable, and being abused constantly. Best way to end violence against sex workers is to imprison the men who pay to abuse women, not normalize a dark and dangerous path. I agree we should care about and empathize with sex workers, but this post is completely tone death to the reality of prostitution and misogyny making it near impossible to enthusiastically consent to what they have to or choose to do for a living.
Like what the fuck is this post...
Growing up with this fake woke message fucked me over so bad and will fuck more naive women over. It's not about the work being valid or not really, it's about it being inherently oppressive and harmful (especially to females).
NO NO NO NO NO!!! SEX WORKERS ARE NOT HOSPITALITY PROFESSIONALS JFC!!! It is so so dangerous to equate it with sex work industry. Hospitality professionals are so passionate about food/beverage as a whole including history, georgraphy and other knowledge surrounding it, aesthetics, decorum, etc. It is so deep and beautiful. Women in hospitality already start working at such a young age, they face so much harassment already, all throughout their careers. I finished 9 years this year and I still struggle to deal with the level of entitlement with which men behave around women in hospitality. Equating these 2 is going to be so bad, I can't even express enough.
Female sex workers don’t always enjoy the sex and aren’t always attracted to their clients but end up having sex with clients anyway. Straight men would never entertain the idea of being gay for pay but will insist that prostitution is “just a job” and there is no stigma to it. So why don’t any of them consider becoming a sex worker that services men? Is sex work really just a job or are they lying through their teeth because the sex posi position on prostitution benefits them and they don’t want the gravy train to stop.
Well all industries are interlinked to some degree but that doesn’t make them all the same. I run a hospitality company and have all kinds of suppliers from food to marketing consultants, hire all kinds of people from accounts to taxi drivers. I probably have served a sex worker just as I’ve probably served a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker. I’ve worked as a team delivering government training but that doesn’t make me involved in policy making, my role was within catering. Those of us in hospitality are literally everywhere because everyone needs to eat, drink and rest. To conflate that with sex work is absurd, that’s like saying because everyone uses money they work in finance.
They're worried that it's going to disproportionately affect immigrants and BIPOC women. Are they calling them all whores? They always tell on themselves.
And just a general note: we all need to use grown-up language please. If you're talking about strippers, say strippers. If youre talking about prostitutes, say prostitutes. If youre talking about a woman who sold a single photo of her feet in college on a dare and uses that as clout for the rest of her life to claim that she's a former sex worker, then say pickmeisha. "Sex worker" doesnt mean anything. It's a term created to sanitize the horrors of the sex trade. Its misogyny. Avoid "sex worker" and say what you actually mean.
Sex work is so empowering and not at all harmful, but the men who make comments like "I'd much rather get my back blown out doing this rather than manual labor" never preach to young boys to pop their bussies for money 🤔 and take on this "careerpath" themselves.
"I have long stated that ..." Who the fuck are you, anonymous reddit pickme, and why yhe fuck should we care what you've "long stated"? "We glorify strip clubs as cool places to drink" Speak for yourself, asshole! And then I stopped reading at "fEmMe PeOpLe".
so those people never actually researched on how sex work positivity fucked the sex workers over, huh?
(FYI if you haven't listened to the podcast episode with elly arrow, i highly recommend it. amazing perspective from a SWA who highlights all the important issues that occur in the sex work industry.)
I listen to sex workers and previous sex workers and they all told me the same thing: The experience traumatized them deeply and they wished they've never done it. From cam girls, to sugar babies, to strippers and prostitutes, they all said the same exact thing. It is not the same as serving or bartending. It is not the same as being a cashier or an office worker. I never had to read an employee contract that outlines sexual acts or expecting violence from men as a normal part of the job. So they can stop making that poor comparison already.
Except prostitutes don't have bodily autonomy. They're making it seem like women and girls who are backed into a corner and forced to have sex for money are making this choice between a normal job that would have the same pay. And they're not. I've never heard one girl ever state she wanted to grow up to be a prostitute or a stripper. Women used to have no choice but to go to a convent or be a prostitute when their husband or father failed to provide for them. We don't need to go back to those times when women nowadays don't have to be abused by men to make a living anymore. This is probably an MTF who wrote this, anyways, and not a real woman. Lots of these supposed women in high places are men in drag, and that's where they come up with this bullshit.