They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and sick days.
    • 1984@lemmy.today
      19119·
      18 days ago

      Yes, but writing computer code is not the same as offering sex. One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

      I think it’s great that sex workers get benefits, but let’s not kid ourselves that sex work is purely a normal job, like selling furniture or making cheese.

      • BigChungus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        201·
        18 days ago

        I’m sorry, you count “selling furniture” or “making cheese” as normal jobs? Call me sheltered but I’ve gone over 30 years on this planet and never met anyone who’s done either lol.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          55·
          18 days ago

          You’re sheltered. You’ve never been to a furniture store, or any department store with furniture? Nor been to a market with vendor reps, one being cheese?

          I mean, I thought I was sheltered, but I’ve been to Macy’s, consignment stores, and Goodwill. And just the other day I was at a holiday market where one of the stalls was a cheese company.

          • BigChungus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            17 days ago

            I’ve actually worked in shops when I was younger, ones that sold furniture and cheese, which for someone as sheltered as me was shocking - took me about two days to recover!

            Jokes aside, I totally understand these jobs exist but what I meant was that the OP picked some weird jobs to support their backwards ass point.

      • Juice@midwest.social
        11·
        17 days ago

        I love this thread you created where you’re like “hooking is bad for you unlike software developing” and all these devs hop in like, “so is there a certificate program for sex work?”

      • infinite_ass@leminal.space
        10·
        17 days ago

        You don’t think writing code damages your soul? Have you met software developers?

        Devs are at the bottom of the list of Cosmo’s dateworthy by profession for a very good reason.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    501·
    18 days ago

    About time … all those whores in political office have had the same rights and benefits for decades.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    254·
    18 days ago

    Typo in quoted text, OP…

    They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and suck days.

    But seriously, wonderful progressive policy. Some of those people work very hard and word is that their clients can be a real pain in the ass sometimes too.

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
      524·
      18 days ago

      But seriously, wonderful progressive policy.

      It is. Not so much: your comment.

      • Snapz@lemmy.world
        95·
        17 days ago

        Not very sex positive of you… you sound like a bit of a prudish gatekeeper here, no? Sex workers suck and fuck - Do you think they should feel shame for these loving acts that they choose to perform professionally?

        • Gloomy@mander.xyz
          63·
          17 days ago

          No sex worker should feel ashame for their job. The ones I know don’t at least.

          I get you were joking and I see how my comment may come over as prude. It’s just that it’s a very harsh Industrie that is often marginalised. More often than not it intersect with people of lower class seeing it as one of the few ways to earn money. Those that work it often have to hide it, even if it’s legal, because there is a huge taboo around it. And then of course there is a huge dark area where mostly females are human trafficked into a country and then forced into prostitution.

          Makingsex work to be a legal job and getting legislation like in this thread here helps a lot and is indeed progressive and positive.

          I feel like making fun of these people isn’t helpful, or progressive at all. Nothing against a lighthearted joke, but your comment offers nothing else but sex jokes and a lip service remark about how progressive the law is. I feel like it is making fun of sex workers more than anything else.

          If that makes me a prude gatekeeper in your eyes (and the eyes of the downvoters) then be it so. You can think of me what ever you wish. I’ll have to live with that burden.

          • Snapz@lemmy.world
            62·
            17 days ago

            The way you remove a stigma is to speak normally, regularly and without kid gloves. We don’t need to treat it like gold. It needs to be safe, regulated, respectful of labor rights and with a wage representice of the type of work, like anything else.

            • the person that deveins shrimp at the factory has a very shitty job
            • A proctologist is a high paying and respected job, but you have to work with a lot of assholes every day
            • A prostitute that can’t laugh about their job, probably has a big stick up their ass.

            The more you can personally evolve away from tiptoeing around discussion here, the better you do to actually normalize. Normalizing casual discussion helps make those who are still against it to feel more like the ridiculous outsiders they are, far removed from the accepted status quo of society.