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My 2 cents, you never actually specified what makes sex work any different from a "normal job". All you offered was your opinion on the work itself, and a false equivalence about the health of the worker correlating to the work they do. Your ego is blinding you to the fact that your thesis has not been justified, and it's also telling you you're inherently correct due to your own preconceived ideas behind the work.
The only real difference I can think of between sex work or contract work or office work or manual work...is that the sex one has the word "sex" in it. That word is very loaded though, and we all have very different emotional reactions to it, especially with how it relates to making an income in a broken society. That difference doesn't make sex work unique though. It does make it a prime target for folks like yourself to treat it like it's different and worse. You really have to zoom out of yourself to put us all in the same bucket, and that's not an easy thing to do, to be fair, so it's not hard to imagine why you might have an opinion like yours.
It's been interesting reading all these responses. I previously didn't know that so many people on Lemmy see no difference between sex work and other work. Truly an interesting thread. :)