[anaconda]

Hello, simple question that may have a very complex answer. It is possible to get paid for a sexual service. Is that a healthy attitude of the society and should it always be accepted?
https://www.nswp.org/sites/default/files/policy_brief_sex_work_as_work_nswp_-_2017.pdf
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-sex-work-open-society


There are a lot of links to be found concerning the matter.

[FortySexN2]

I don’t think this is a Pandora’s box at all, rather it’s quite a good opening for this forum.

From a behavioral science standpoint, sex work is a form of resource-for-sex exchange, which is neither new nor unusual in human societies. It has existed in many forms across time and cultures.

In economic terms, sex work often functions as a means of survival or upward mobility, particularly where people face limited job opportunities, lack access to education, or live in systems with strong gender or class inequality.

In Finland, it's mainly just one of the areas of entrepreneurship.

Crucially, the most serious harms often associated with sex work, such as violence, disease, and trauma, are typically the result of external factors like criminalization, poverty, social stigma, and a lack of labor protections, rather than the act of selling sexual services itself.

In that light, social and economic policy, not moral judgment, tends to have the greatest influence on whether sex work leads to harm or to stability. How society chooses to structure laws, healthcare, and worker rights matters far more than whether the work is “accepted” in a moral sense.