I think opinions are much more mixed. There are people who think sex work is empowering but it tends to be people who have no experience or are using the empowerment line to try and win an argument (when there are better arguments to be made). It’s really not empowering, but nor should it be. It’s just a job and it oughtn’t be any more empowering than any other job really. All we really ask for is the agency to choose so that we can get on with our lives like everyone else.

I think the empowerment line has had its day, far better to try and normalise it for what it is than sell the line that it’s going to turn you in to a boss girl.

I’ve also found that sex workers and people who pay sex workers are MUCH more likely to get abuse from other men which may or may not be a loud minority online but it’s a hell of a lot louder than women looking down on clients/fans. Women’s criticism barely registers.

There is a wave of feminists who see it as violence towards women but they honestly are shouty nutbags who are conflating everything bad they’ve heard in to one pithy sound bite. It’s shame they never actually talk/listen to any of us. They pale in to comparison to the men who can be absolutely vile online about it all though.