labor coercion

This was a specific and focused effort on getting white women out of brothels, and because of this, we still see racial divisions along the prostituted class today. Prostitution is a continuation of chattel slavery, it is the white man ensuring that Black Women remain poor, remain sexually available, remain for sale.

Often, pro sex work individuals will ask if the prostituted woman enjoys her work. Andrea Dworkin defines this stereotype as the chattel whore: a woman predisposed to sexual slavery, a woman who enjoys sexual service, a woman born to be a cunt. We do not ask this of other forms of work, however. Why? Because we understand that under capitalism,... See more