Very interesting article.

Can someone copy and paste here? Thank you!!

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“The media uses terms like ‘sex work’ and ‘sex worker’ in their reporting, treating prostitution as a job like any other,” said xxxxx, a 27-year-old woman from New York City who introduced herself as a “Black sex-trafficking and prostitution survivor.” The language of “sex work,” she argued, implies falsely that engaging in the sex trade is a choice most often made willingly; it also absolves sex buyers of responsibility.  

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The urge to maintain that illusion is understandable. The term “sex work” whitewashes the economic constraints, family ruptures and often sordid circumstances that drive many women to sell themselves. It flips the nature of the transaction in question: It enables sex buyers to justify their role, allowing the purchase of women’s bodies for their own sexual pleasure and violent urges to feel as lightly transactional as the purchase of packaged meat from the supermarket.  

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“Prostitution is neither sex nor work but a system based on gender-based violence and socioeconomic inequalities related to sex, gender, race and poverty that preys on the most marginalized among us for the profitable commercial sex industry,”

of what the full spectrum of sex work is. And it's just one more example of people trying to change language to suit themselves.

… I was hoping you would chime in the pertinent response and save me the trouble. 🤣

Damn, that hoe has been working the streets. No shame there, The only non-GF hooker I ever hung out with, where sex was not the reason, was a street walker. I even helped her move when the sad day came to move closer to her kids (after making some other significant changes to her life, chief among them finally getting free from her pimp... what a fucking ordeal that was, and scary).
 
I rarely use the SW moniker because I'm not here as a representative of "polite society" (also because it makes me think of street walker, which is what SW used to mean to me). I don't look down on people because of *the way they say things* and I typically wouldn't propose to correct them... unless the correction is making a broader point! And I *definitely* prefer people who shoot straight and without airs. Have I read some cringe-worth stuff here? Absolutely. But this is where it belongs, I'd contend.
 
Don't get me wrong, it seems most of us here are well educated, successful, and would mix with polite society unnoticed, but a discussion board about paying for pussy looks weird when guys are bending over backward to be PC. To each his own!

everybody has one.

 
There are obviously people engaged in sex work who experience harrowing circumstances.  But, this piece is posted in the 'Opinions' section, because it is exactly that.  One persons opinion.   As was said above, it does not take into account the full breadth of the industry.

"cringeworthy".  You still have time to edit and correct it before Conan finishes his dinner in NY and sees it.  "The broader point," since you gave your blessing, is that "cringe-worth" is not a real word nor is it hyphenated.  I agree that MOST of us here are well-educated, but some more than others.   Lol

So does his brother, Onan.

You can bypass their paywall with this site:

There is no doubt that sex industry has its dark side.  And of course sex workers are going to tell us what we want to believe.  But therein lies their own responsibility.  If they tell me they are doing it of their own free will and have other options, I accept their agency.   Nevertheless if I suspect some sort of coercion I'd move on.

Like anything, everyone has an opinion. NYT is as blatant as it gets. Everyone is a victim.

Reality is somewhere in the middle.

Moderates in general no longer exist in media, or politics.  It blows, as so many policies are just wrong, not this one, or that one, but nearly all .