You're making a lot of assumptions here. Prostitution can be deemed yet another form of slavery, just like kids being forced to mine cobalt in Africa so we can fake caring about environment while sourcing raw material from questionable corporations... And there is absolutely nothing wrong with being against slavery for religious reasons.
Now if you do equate getting violated vaginally or anally, or being coerced or straight out forced into putting penises in one's mouth, with farm work or being maid, other's people religious morals might be the least of your problems.
> thinking of the good of the sex workers
Good for whom? for the johns and a handful of high profile female dilettantes? It certainly brings nothing good for females as a class.
If it matters I'm an atheist. I'm against "sex work" because women (it's women in the majority of cases) are trafficked and taken advantage of, in both a material and a direct physical way.
I see this "sex work" non-sense mostly coming from people who have had no direct contact with the reality/materiality of it all, i.e. mostly from the Western middle-classes.
Later edit: Because this has touched a close nerve with me, copy-pasting some stuff related to that reality/materiality I had mentioned from a news article about Romanian prostitution rings in Spain [1]:
> The women were freed from brothels in Malaga and Girona where they had been sexual exploited by their compatriots and made to work for up to ten hours a day under the threat of violence.
> Some had come to Spain after being falsely promised better lives by the Romanian sex traffickers while others had fallen victim to the so-called 'lover boy' scam, according to a police statement.
> This method involves one of the sex traffickers forming an intimate relationship with the woman to earn her trust before later forcing her into prostitution.
> One of the women freed, who was only 18 years old, had been reported as missing by her family in Romania.
> Police described the 'iron control' exerted by the 'well-organized' sex-trafficking ring and said that the women had been kept completely isolated from the outside world.
I don't know of any sane person who would call that legit "work" and "liberating".
[1] https://www.thelocal.es/20140812/spanish-police-smash-romani...
Human trafficking is already illegal. Fund investigators and get rid of traffickers.
Empower sex-workers instead of banning the practice, because it will still happen but just more in the shadows. Bring it to the front and truly regulate it.
That's a very naive and harmful take.
Criminalizing sex work means that only criminals would be involved in it, hence the trafficking.
Given that you can't do anything about supply and demand, the only sane solution to trafficking is decriminalizing sex work.
Yet there is a lot of human trafficking in other areas, like farmwork or maids in the Western world, and the non-Western world is filled with sweatshops and literal slaves. And you never hear them mention it.
Which makes me convinced these people are just anti-sex work for religious or moral reasons (because they have internalized that sex is sinful or bad), reasons they then lie about.