Reply #834: Yes, it is a very defensive stance

[LadyHawkAZ]

I have personally known people to die because of the underground, unprotected nature of criminalized prostitution. I take very serious issue with people marginalizing sex workers as stupid, mentally deficient or otherwise less than completely adult human beings with the same rights as everyone else. Because I know exactly where that leads.

If I were a person not totally hung up on the whole S-E-X issue, I'd wonder about how many abuse survivors wind up in high-risk, low-income jobs not involving genitals. But that's just me. It's amazing how many people only worry about abuse survivors if they fail to remain properly chaste and chastised the rest of their lives... but that's just me too. I'm nit-picky like that.