The business of sex..Morals, philosophy , and wage discrimination, based on sex.

‘Sex sells’…. as the old saying goes.
It’s a one liner that’s often used - simply because it’s very true.(just as the saying ‘prostitution - the oldest profession in the world’, is true).

Confusing the reality of free markets with personal internal cultural values - in regard to sex, is nothing more than projection. (see my recent posts regarding the dynamics of psychological projection).

Lets delineate some of those the confusions, shall we?....

Money is money. It is not sentient.
It is stored value.
It is a means of exchange.

A voluntary contract that's entered into, is just that.

Voluntary.
There are no victims in this scenario.

Moralizing on sex work is someone casting a moral judgment on another persons right to self determination.

Taking a moral position on sex work is based on perception, not objectivity.

The philosophical and intellectual arguments concerning sex work is ridiculous at best - if you choose to look through an objective lens.

How so?

People work for money.
People give their time in exchange for money.
(This is the free market in action).

Moral arguments or negative aspersions in regard’s to the adult industry are both philosophically - and intellectually - dishonest.

...A carpenter exchanges his time for money, by employing his hands to craft a product. Ergo – The carpenter is being paid to use a part of his body, (his hands) for money.

The same principle applies to a fireman, a laborer, or an accountant – or even a brain surgeon (using your brain is using a different part of your body, but it's exactly the same principal).

So, intellectually speaking – there is no difference in using different parts of ones body (and time), in exchange for money.
Philosophically – ones part of a body is not intrinsically more valuable than another part when being employed.
That subjective value is derived and calculated by market forces.
A carpenters toes are *not valuable – but his hands are!.

As you can see, there is no philosophical or intellectual justification for a negative perspective towards sex work, when compared to any other work.

Which then leaves the moral (and legal) aspects...
'The legal' is utterly irrelevant if you advocate the free market and free exchange – these laws are nothing more than a sanction against both.

The moral argument is also irrelevant if there are no victims in the transaction...(human trafficking, forced prostitution, and the negative aspects quickly associated to the adult industry have nothing to do with the model outlined above - anymore than guns are responsible for deaths and not the people shooting them).

This is the objective reality.

Any uncomfortable feeling's that you feel about this logical position is a cognitive dissonance - most probably due to personal , cultural, or religious beliefs and values .
They are the internal emotional responses when confronted with an objective reality that doesn’t conform to your own subjective values.
It creates psychological discomfort.

I am neither advocating - nor denigrating - sex work in this post.

Simply offering a seldom expressed, rational approach, to a very emotive subject (for some).

The one thing that really irritates me about the adult industry is the blatant sexism.

A female adult performer can be paid up to $450 dollars an hour, whereas the male equivalent performer will only be paid around $100 an hour!!!
A sexual discrimination - massive wage inequality - and one that never seems to be discussed!

Ok, ok - it doesn't really irritate me at all! - I was being facetious.
(I've been involved in the adult industry, one way or another for many years).

I prefer the market to decide the value of anything , not marxist legislation intent on 'equality' ( when 'equal' does not exist).

...yet another case of ideology refusing to acknowledge reality.