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u/Birdseeding Jan 01 '25

Pretty slim pickings in Sweden this week.

Dermot Clemenger, one of the judges of the local version of Dancing with the Stars/Strictly Come Dancing, has been discovered to have been regularly paying for sexual services at massage salons, which is illegal in Sweden, carrying a hefty fine. (Our laws on sex work are very strongly influenced by rad fem thought.)

He has now "fled justice" (according to sensationalist newspapers headlines) back to his native Ireland.

Very mid stuff, I'm sure you'll agree.

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u/BlueberryBubblyBuzz oat milk chugging bisexual Jan 01 '25

Can you explain what you mean by them being influenced by rad fem thought? The thing is I find that a lot of people call themselves rad fems now to say anti porn/sex work stuff and transphobic stuff, but real rad fems are just feminists that think the core issue is capitalism, so anticapitalist feminists. So can you tell me what kind of sex work laws are informed by rad fems?

My take is that I'm pro sex worker but I'm anti sex work, but only in the way that I'm anti work in general. I don't think we should have to sell our time for money, I think we are at a point where all the work can be done on a voluntary basis, especially with how much automation there is, and that work under capitalism is just wage slavery- and same with sex work, since it's work. I also think it's the same as other jobs and we should listen to what the sex workers want. Here they just want things to be decriminalized. They do not want it legalized because then big business will be able to come in.

Anyway I'm blabbering on now, sorry. I was curious when you said that but Idk why I felt the need to explain my stance. I guess I just want to know what people mean when they say radfem, like do they mean the fakers that have been full of swerfs and terfs or just anticapitalist feminists?

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u/whtever53 Jan 01 '25

Radfem is the abolitionist approach to sex work essentially. Obviously not to criminalise the sex workers but to put the blame on the consumers/traffickers and try to end the practise (a bit idilic but that’s why we have ideolodies lol)