Comments on: What is the sex industry?

By: naran

naran — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:50:22 +0000

i need sex work job i am a male age43 india pls conetect

By: Elaine the Intern

Elaine the Intern — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:08:50 +0000

I think there is a distinction between sex workers and people who work from a purely a management level. And I’m basing my opinion from a labor standpoint, since I think the term “worker” in general denotes someone who engages in the physical (and maybe mental depending on the cases, like a journalist) labour aspect in the whole exchange process. I wouldn’t call someone who owns a coal mine factory a miner or a dean of a university a professor, just as I wouldn’t call a porn producer a sex worker.

I feel like sex workers are much more vulnerable to economic and labor exploitation more so then other folks who work in the sex industry (not through physical labour) due in large part to their positions as laborer in the capitalistic system (along with many other things like lack of regulation, lack of visibility, stigma of sexuality etc.). And because we still live and continue to live in this system, the difference still exists for the most part and recognizing the difference is important to address material issues that sex workers materially face as workers.

Of course that whole thing sounds kind of Marxist and I realize that issues that sex workers face can’t just be boiled down to labor since sex work is obviously not the same as any other industry. I also realize that not every sex worker works for someone and so that whole top down thing I just spouted is not entirely applicable to everyone, but yea its kind of a complicated question

By: MarcelloNYC

MarcelloNYC — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:40:53 +0000

I don’t think there is a distinction because at the management level even though they are just financiers or business executives, they are selling or promoting a sexual based product or service – they are still making a living from the money they earn from sex – sex worker.

An executive chef may not cook in his kitchen because he has sou chefs doing all the work, but he is still considered a chef and part of an industry called food service and management.

I don’t know if that made sense – this is a really complicated question to answer!

By: chaps

chaps — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:23:27 +0000

My opinion on this topic is that people are men or women that work in this industry they are very respected by its work…. I think that it is a form in that they express its sexuality and they reflect us a form in which many of normal people scare us to say it or to make it fearing that point out us for our sexual likes and for that reason these people reflect us our desires… since when watching a movie for adults and to see scenes he/she is not fancied.. when you see two women make it to a man or until the same women when seeing as the actor man carries out certain positions to give pleasure.. to the artist… for that reason I say that it is since a very respectable work they express what we have repressed in our interior….

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