Scott Cunningham has done a lot of work in this area. He’s got a 2011 publication in the Journal of Urban Economics that reports mean weekly earnings of $2,577 among sex workers who solicit on the Internet (no median reported). There’s a 2007 unpublished working paper by Steven Levitt (Freakonomics) and Sudhir Venkatesh (Gang Leader for a Day) that surveys Chicago sex workers, and they find average weekly wages of $336.
These are obviously wildly different numbers. The Cunningham (and Kendall - shouldn’t leave him out) paper reports an average transaction time of about 120 minutes, with a cost of $487. The Levitt and Venkatesh paper documents an average price per transaction of $49.45, but more than half of their sample are either “manual” or “oral” tricks, which I imagine last far less than 2 hours. Overall, they estimate an hourly rate of $27 or so.
No they shouldn’t, for the same reason that being in favor of decriminalizing drugs doesn’t mean you should be pro-heroin . The number of sex workers who aren’t emotionally damaged and socially exploited is vanishingly small. Nobody dreams of being a prostitute when they grow up. That’s a career you enter when the world has already fucked you over so many different ways you figure you might as well get fucked for real if it’ll pay the bills.
The problem is people are conflating all sex work with the worst kind of sex work. It’s like saying all jobs are terrible because the worst jobs are terrible.
I’ll write a longer post tonight with background research.
The response itt is common and coming from the right place. Everyone wants to fight trafficking and forced prostitution. The problem is those admirable goals nearly always end up with legislation that hurts all sex workers both consensual and not.
Amnesty International supports full decriminalization which should tell you something.
Proprietary is probably closer to word you were looking for. What I find interesting is that Apple has never had a big market share in PCs and yet their interface decisions have almost universally become the standard; no floppy drive, no cd/dvd drive, using dongles instead of full size ports on laptops. I suppose it isn’t surprising they are doing the same in markets they have more market share. My impression is they went to the lightning connector because it was better than the USB connectors that were common at the time, but you are welcome to believe it was just a money grab, they are good at that too.
Depends what you mean by non-problematic. Are they doing it out of economic necessity? This is true of not only many sex workers but nearly all workers period.
To answer your question we would need to specify more.
A productive discussion of sex work is only possible under two conditions.
First distinctions needs to me made between consensual and non consensual.
Second distinctions need to be made between economic levels of sex work.
The lightning adapters are better, way better. My problem with Apple is how flimsy and garbage their cords are. Every single apple cord I have ever used – phone, laptop, whatever – has exposed wire in a shockingly short amount of time through normal use.
And nobody come at me victim shaming me for my normal use habits. No, I don’t painstakingly wrap my laptop cord up before I put it in my backpack like a mental patient. I toss it in like a normal human being. Every single non apple laptop charger I’ve owned stood up to that sort of treatment for years. An apple charger wears out after a few months.