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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by kodah on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:46AM (#33008586)
Ostracizing sex work has become fully normalized, so unfortunately people read this and immediately think, "Why not pretend to be someone else?", "Why not just do other illegal things (like tax evasion)?"
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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:01AM (#33008795)
> has become fully normalized

I don’t think this is a new phenomenon at all. I would guess it’s the norm through much of history.

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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by UncleMeat on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:17AM (#33008995)
In early modern venice, the state operated and promoted a special place for prostitutes to work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_delle_Tette - "Titty Bridge") because they were afraid that men not getting enough sex would turn them gay!

The history of sex work is fascinating and wildly diverse.

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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by retrac on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:36AM (#33009201)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution
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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by giraffe_lady on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#33009015)
You would guess wrong then.
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