• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    They usually aren’t “employed” though, as far as I know, as in having employment contracts. That’s the new thing they’re doing in Belgium, they’re now entitled to a contract that guarantees adherence to labour laws.

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      That most sex workers are self-employed in Germany is a result of the strict employment laws, in particular, if you employ a baker and tell them to knead bread and they refuse then you can fire them. Can’t do that with a sex worker as they can refuse to serve any client for any or no reason.

      It’s not like there’s no employed sex workers but the more usual model is that a brothel provides a room, security, and a lobby and sex workers pay for the use of those with money they make off their clients. Just like running a business in a mall, but a particular kind of business in a particular kind of mall.

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      My sample size of one prostitute I know was actually employed in a bordello. She loved her job but quit when she entered a monogamous relationship.

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      they’re now entitled to a contract that guarantees adherence to labour laws.

      Sounds like they’re “entitled” to have to find a boss to work for in order to benefit from this law, unless the government provides maternity pay for freelancers?