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Why does “prostitute” necessarily have to equal abuse as you implied? While it’s true that many sex workers are abused, your implication is that to be a sex worker is to be a victim of abuse. Now I can’t find much on your blog on this topic, but you’re sounding kinda SWERFy right now and if I were you I would re-examine my beliefs on how sex work functions in our society and on the women (and men and enbies) who participate in it.

Now, I don’t want to ignore the fact that male writers are in the habit of both pigeonholing female characters into these types of work and in writing abuse into their character arcs. I freely and readily acknowledge that it is lazy and toxic. But I would like to point out that writing sex workers is not inherently devaluing the characters and a character being a sex worker does not necessarily equal being a victim of abuse.