> We can't look at our body as some crutch which you can sell for a couple of hours.
That's a good argument against wage labor in capitalism, but not a specific argument against prostitution as opposed to other, particularly physical, wage labor.
Comparing prostitution to physical labor is no different from comparing selling your organs to prostitution. Indeed, giving away for free a part of what you earned is bad, but giving a part of yourself, be it psychological or physical health(which should not be separated, actually, but lets not complicate things. Lots of things we can lose and still continue to live), is worse.
Its not a comparison, prostitution literally is physical labor...
> is no different from comparing selling your organs to prostitution
...whereas selling organs is not prostitution and vice versa.
> Indeed, giving away for free a part of what you earned is bad, but giving a part of yourself, be it psychological or physical health(which should not be separated, actually, but lets not complicate things. Lots of things we can lose and still continue to live), is worse.
Much wage labor, both physical and otherwise, involves sacrifice of psychological and/or physical health. We have, in fact, a massive labor regulatory and enforcement bureaucracy that exists not to prevent that, but to try to limit it to what is deemed reasonable for each specific job. (Including, where it is legal, for prostitution.)
>Its not a comparison, prostitution literally is physical labor...
>...whereas selling organs is not prostitution and vice versa.
Alright.
> Much wage labor, both physical and otherwise, involves sacrifice of psychological and/or physical health.
And the goal was to reduce those sacrifices overtime. Or so I thought.
> We have, in fact, a massive labor regulatory and enforcement bureaucracy that exists not to prevent that, but to try to limit it to what is deemed reasonable for each specific job. (Including, where it is legal, for prostitution.)
Help me out then. Where is the limit? I mean, at what point we can say:"no, this is unacceptable to decriminalize doing that, even though it can perfectly be classified as labor definition on wikipedia". Why governments prevent trading some stuff, if trading, whatever you trade, is the same labor like everything else and shouldn't be prevented?
Are you a libertarian? I'm asking because discussing all that with people who believe in stuff has no purpose
You are not paid only for physical labor in a company. You are expected to be part of the company culture, which, most of the times, is mental prostitution.
That's a good argument against wage labor in capitalism, but not a specific argument against prostitution as opposed to other, particularly physical, wage labor.