> If you asked most people they'd rather be able to live without having to do their primary employment, even if they don't mind their job. I'd say that's being coerced too, and sex work just sounds like any other job by that definition.
Making children work in a factory, forcing slaves to work under threat of violence, or even paying consenting adults to work grueling hours in dangerous jobs without medical recourse is bad. Paying employees to do something that's menial or boring is not.
The standards of what is acceptable or not certainly change over time, but conflating coercion and acceptable remuneration is a silly equivocation.
Making children work in a factory, forcing slaves to work under threat of violence, or even paying consenting adults to work grueling hours in dangerous jobs without medical recourse is bad. Paying employees to do something that's menial or boring is not.
The standards of what is acceptable or not certainly change over time, but conflating coercion and acceptable remuneration is a silly equivocation.