Laverne Cox Pulls Out of Sex Industry Documentary Following "Outrage"

[hewontgo]

Laverne Cox Pulls Out of Sex Industry Documentary Following "Outrage" https://t.co/7OxEOeV7II
- E! News (@enews) January 8, 2021
Cox has dropped out of a documentary about sex workers following public backlash to the project

Comments

[spoil]

There's a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy and it kinda explores what you're talking about. It's this I'm taking control by sexualizing and objectify myself kinda thing that women in the 2000's and now still perpetuate to an extent.

[xtinkerbellax]

Yea I'll never get it, the ones with the money hold the power imo. They can take their business elsewhere if they aren't getting what they want.

[rihaty]

You can't control men through sex when you're just playing into patriarchal norms.

I don't look down on those engaging in sex work and believe they should be protected, but the idea that they are being radical or are empowered is naive.

[ginainabottle]

Consent can't be bought so one could argue that there's no such thing as consensual sex when one of the parties has to pay for it.

[bingobronson]

🙄 No, one couldn't.

[brightstarmara]

I think people see it as a her choice thing. Or making money from sex themselves. I don't know how it could be anything other than harmfull.

[aleksie]

I've known some women find it as a way to own their sexuality and dismantle stereotypes about women and sex.

The subject is nuanced and complicated. I don't often see sex work discussed in a nuanced way.

[aleksie]

I don't get it, either. These are the claims I've heard women make.

[evilgerbil]

Hard agree. There are also men and nonbinary people who do sex work. It's not just paid intercourse. People have cam sites, chat lines, and members sites. Fetish models, professional Doms/Dommes and subs are also considered sex workers. If someone wants to talk about the relationship between sex work and sex trafficking/enslavement that's fine, but saying all sex work is exploitation isn't a useful or true statement. Sex work is a series of interrelated things people do, and it looks very different in West Hollywood, West Virginia, Thailand, or Eastern Europe. The legality and perception of just prostitution in Africa alone is incredibly diverse.

[sweet_heloise]

I don't think sex work by itself is empowering. The empowerment comes from getting men to pay lots of money $$$$ for various intimacy and sexual "favors." The money is empowering.

[sweet_heloise]

I think there's a difference between making $7.25 an hour grinding away at McDonald's vs. making hundreds or thousands of dollars per day from sex work. Tbh I don't agree that it's empowering but I don't think any job is empowering.

[piratesswoop]

anyone making hundreds or thousands of dollars per day from sex work is probably more comparable to a regional ceo, not a minimum wage worker