I am not against porn.

This probably comes as a surprise. Porn seems like something I would be against. But honestly, I am for porn. I even think that in many ways, it is a good idea. There are just a couple of flaws with the system. If those cleared up, I would advocate pornography.

Our society is too afraid of sex. Sex is a taboo subject with mixed messages. It is bad until you are married. If you are a woman you are not supposed to like it or have it very often. If you are a man you are supposed to want it every second of every day with every woman you ever see. If we remember that people have always had sex, and therefore it is normal and perfectly OK to enjoy.

The way we view sex workers is skewed. The men are studs and the women are whores. Consumers can have 200 hours of downloaded porn, but the women in Playboy and pornography are total sluts who have compromised their image and can never work in a mainstream career.
The people who believe this are the same people who insist that they are not using or degrading women through pornography. The man paying a stripper to rub her breasts in his face says that he is better than her, but that he is not exploiting her?

You cannot insist that you do not use or exploit a group of people, but then not allow them the same social, political and career freedoms that you have yourself.

If you can watch porn and not be tainted by the stigma of public sex, then the sex workers deserve the same freedom and respect. It is all or nothing. Anything less is dishonest and exploitative.