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Clearly the poster thinks they do know what is best, it's just that it's founded on more than paternalistic views: They seem to equate sex work with gambling, which tastes fundamentally puritan.

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They can both seem like easy money. For most people they aren't. And there's a very real risk of long-term negative consequences.

A ton of things seem like easy money but aren't for most people. Many of those have a risk of long-term negative consequences. You just described a large part of life.

What makes sex work special compared to say, pilots, police, electricians, miners, fishermen, divers, construction workers and many many others who also need to balance their choice against a very real risk of long-term negative consequences?

Having a choice you can make that you need to spend some time really thinking about to understand doesn't mean you have to take that choice away from someone. If you do, you implicitly say that you are better than whoever got to make this choice before and you should be the one making their choices. You are not better and neither is anyone else. People make their own choices, that is the society I want to live in.

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