My family are mostly Democrat voting liberals and I identified as one for years. When I was in 5th grade I spent more time with my Fox News-watching grandparents and became a Republican for like a year or 2 and became an apolitical lib for a while. From like 2015-2019 I was a Bernie bro who had some objectively shit takes. The biggest 180 I did was probably on the sex trade. I used to be for it as a horny teen like “huh? Did someone say SeX?? Well it’s all ConSeNsUAL so why cockblock someone from getting some PuSsY?” Obviously now I realize that’s a disgusting sentiment and that most people in the industry are not happy and would rather do anything else. Just because a few are happy with their line of work, it doesn’t make it right to force so many others into a position where they feel abused and humiliated or threatened. “Legitimacy of industry” in terms of prostitution always means lining the pockets of abusive pimps (physical or anything else) who will use the opportunity to get rich and usually fund illegal markets (source: Look at Nevada). Enough about me, what topics have become more clear to yall after becoming a communist? I could probably list a few others but I’m interested in seeing what yall say.
I’m somewhere in this process but cannot fathom how to go about that without a big change in policing.
It’s easy to identify and arrest prostitutes. They have to put it out there to find business. And they get arrested in scores, and it never ever changes anything.
The ones who perpetuate the industry are the johns. If there’s any enforcement, it should be there, then pimps, then, if any officer hours or resources are left over, any prostitute cheating their customers. Then, after, the sex workers themselves.
Until then, leave it all alone and police for violence (pimp/johns represent the vast majority of that here).