Can you please tell me why saying “i support sex workers, but hate the industry” is whorephobic?

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Because it never seems to mean actually supporting sex workers; listening to us, supporting us when we push for things that will make us safer (such as decriminalisation, not allowing police to pose as clients and then arresting us etc), supporting workplace protections and labour rights generally (e.g. putting pressure on clubs and brothels to get rid of the fee systems they usually have), and so on. Further, it makes no sense to hate the sex industry when firstly, there’s not really one sex industry to hate anyway but more to the point, every industry is exploitative, every industry is dangerous, every industry puts women at risk of violence, so why would one hate the sex industry and not the garment manufacturing industry? there’s no material basis for it, and putting sex work in its own special category is always based on ideological issues and ascribes almost esoteric meanings to sex which reflect dominant social values (that sex is damaging to women, that sex should be about love and commitment etc). 

In short, a big part of supporting sex workers is destigmatising us, which means seeing sex work for what it is; work. Putting the so-called sex industry in its own special category projects certain meanings onto us and our work that contribute to and perpetuate that stigma, while also obscuring the fact that women all over the world face similar violence and exploitation.

I hope this answers your question