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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by lucubratory on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:40PM (#38408683)
Not religious, just a woman who has actually been prostituted unlike armchair theorists and johns.

We regularly recognise sex crimes as especially heinous for well-understood reasons. Pleading ignorance is unconvincing. All work is coercive, but as a society we recognise that coercing someone into sex is especially heinous compared to coercing someone into filling out an Excel spreadsheet.

Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by phpisthebest on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:41PM (#38409999)
>> All work is coercive,

I guess this is the foundational issue then,because I do not agree with this premise