Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law
Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and sick days.
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Sex work is real work. Everyone of us trade our bodies or our minds for pay.
Correct, @horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world!
Btw, a protip - it's super insecure to make your username be the same as your password!
Yes, but writing computer code is not the same as offering sex. One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.
I think it's great that sex workers get benefits, but let's not kid ourselves that sex work is purely a normal job, like selling furniture or making cheese.
Working in a business environment is connected to our souls and will damage us inside, it's not different in kind, and if it's different in intensity it is because of the lack of protection and the level of abuse which people get away with.
As someone who writes computer code for a living, I might match those up differently than you'd expect.
True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.
My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I've read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it's semen ?
I’m sorry, you count “selling furniture” or “making cheese” as normal jobs? Call me sheltered but I’ve gone over 30 years on this planet and never met anyone who’s done either lol.
have you actually done any programming? it's 'soul damaging' asf
I'm not sure which job is which.
You don't think writing code damages your soul? Have you met software developers?
Devs are at the bottom of the list of Cosmo's dateworthy by profession for a very good reason.
I love this thread you created where you're like "hooking is bad for you unlike software developing" and all these devs hop in like, "so is there a certificate program for sex work?"
there are hundreds? thousands? of soul crushing occupations. sex work is real work.
spoken like someone who has never written code as a job
Nah. I write computer code, it's very similar especially when it comes to managing clients.
Would you make sex work illegal, if you could?