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[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re paying for sex in the west, then my opinions are more nuanced and less harsh since, economically speaking, workers here are generally in a better position to choose their profession, including sex work, without any coercion other than the standard coercion of capitalism.

However, if you’re a sexpat traveling to developing and underdeveloped countries, you deserve to be thrown into the pit. Sex workers here are more likely to be poorer, desperate, pimped out, and/or trafficked by the mafia. Not to mention many are underage. There is no choice for 99% of the sex workers, or any workers. I don’t care if the age of consent there is 12, you’re still going to into the pit.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

I think you are underestimating the desperation of the very poor in austerity states like the US, but you are 100% right that sexpats are scum

[-] blueson@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like them and a lot of other people are also underestimating the amount of sex trafficed victims that are forced into it here in the west.

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