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if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.

it was easier for us to remember this a few centuries ago when actors very literally had the same social status as prostitutes, but it has never not been true. control over sexuality/sex work, control over speech/expression, and economic control over artists are all bound up in one another.

I don't love these kinds of "if they're coming for them they'll come for you" type of arguments. I think you should defend and take solidarity with sex workers for *their* sake first. But it does mean that it is *dumb* for one of us engage in anti-SW rhetoric or reinforce puritanical talking points.