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

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[ginainabottle]

Is sex work exploitative or empowering?

Exploitative.

Next.

[cbluechicken]

ot but your icon gives me such joy. so cute.

[ginainabottle]

that's the baby chanco effect 💜

[chaotic_n]

I don't mean offense, and I apologize in advance for my question, but I don't understand why the documentary is controversial?

[lozbabie]

Criticising sex work in any way is now anti feminist.

[supernature_971]

Because prostitution, previously regarded as one of the vilest forms of exploitation (as it is directly linked to extreme precarity and human trafficking), is now lauded as "just work" by people who want to call themselves leftist/thinkers.

No proper debate on this topic can be permitted, or we risk being faced with the reality of matter.

[chaotic_n]

Thank you for clarifying, thought I had missed something

[skyler_white_yo]

The exploitive vs. empowering in sex work is a highly nuanced discussion. If the documentary focuses too much on one end or the other without exploring that nuance, it will put people off. I don’t blame her for pulling out.

[lozbabie]

Sex work is exploitive and harmful for women, even if they choose to work in that profession.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah I’m all for regulation and protection for these ladies but idk I always feel they’ll some form of abuse, manipulation, coercion and other things that under the radar.

[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.