Sex workers are just trying to survive, and that's the fucking problem.
I was in the army, so naturally I had romance with a stripper. We argued back and forth about who's liver was stronger, a strippers or a soldiers (I usually won that one), but one thing we agreed on was that stripping was the female equivalent of joining the military: I ain't got no other option, hand me a pole/rifle. The money is good, it will destroy my body, possibly harm my soul, but I will survive and I will have money.
Sex work IS work, and that's why antiwork seemed like the best place for this rant. So let me ask you, what IS work? What are we opposed to? We aren't opposed to spending hours in field so we can eat, nor are we opposed to hours in a factory so we have the components to build our houses. Hell, we aren't even opposed to back breaking labor in a copper mine so we can have power lines to send electricity to our houses.
We aren't opposed to “work.” Most of us jump at any chance to do real work, that needs to be done, which is why we're so sick and tired of being taken advantage of by employers asking us to work late.
We aren't anti work. We're anti money. We're anticommodification. We're opposed to withholding the ingredients for dignity. We aren't opposed to work, we're opposed to slavery. We can ignore for a moment the very real slaves in places like South America and Africa, there are very real slaves in the god damn united states. You'll be homeless unless you put in 60 hours a week? How is that NOT slavery.
None of us are opposed to work. Most of us have worked very hard, and don't mind sweating when we need to. We aren't opposed to work, rather we are standing up for dignity.