Why should the definition of “work” include sexual exploitation and abuse? Just because men are willing to pay for it?

Especially when the government is in the business of taxing work, regulating work, and regulating not working.

Work should improve society in some way.

It should also be as safe, non-traumatic, and humane as possible. If it can’t be safe or non-traumatic, the harms must be mitigated as much as possible, the pay and benefits should be substantial, and it should only be done if the benefit for society is worth the sacrifice. People who sacrifice themselves in their work often are commended by society - firefighters, soldiers, etc.

Prostitution is obviously not like those things, and prostituted women aren’t commemorated for their sacrifice, nor should women be told that it’s valiant to sacrifice themselves in prostitution, nor should society settle for sacrificing women for men’s dicks. Societies should never encourage women to be sacrificed for men’s libidos.

Men satisfying their libidos is not part of the necessary work of societal functioning.

Creating ways for men to satisfy their libidos even if they can’t get women interested in having sex with them is not a burden societies should accept.

We don’t want to consider men’s libidos as a burden they put on society. But if we think prostitution is work, that’s the logical conclusion. Men’s libidos create work because satisfying men is part of society’s labor burden.

The idea that the burden of men’s desire to orgasm should be on society to satisfy is dysfunctional and inhumane.

Men raping women should never be included in the GDP. It’s not part of the economy. Getting away with sexual assault via bribery is not producing prosperity. It’s not improving society.

Men who use prostituted women are degraded in value to their wives, girlfriends, and future partners. Women do not want men with a history of exploitatively fucking women who didn’t want or enjoy it. They don’t make good, respectful, compassionate partners. They don’t make good fathers.

Society should not be condoning a “business” that ruins men’s prospects of having good relationships.

Reducing sex to something that can be commercialized degrades what sex is. It makes it harder for men to have respectful and mutually enjoyable sex with women. It undermines all education about consent. It undermines all progress and messaging about women’s equality. It legalizes and normalizes sexual harassment and exploitation in all workplace settings and in public. Asking someone to do a legal job cannot be harassment. “Suck my dick” is the beginning of a business negotiation. It even burdens women and girls who aren’t in prostitution.

It creates additional burdens to “resolve the burden” of some men’s desire to fuck women who don’t want to fuck them.

That’s not a social good. That’s not just.

It’s dystopian for a society to be in the business of sacrificing so much from women to satisfy the libidos of men who want to fuck women who don’t want them.