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Amazing how much more nuanced things become when confronted by the reality of it as opposed to in the abstract, isn't it?
I'm still pro-legalizing prostitution, but it would be incredibly strongly regulated for me to go along with it's legalization. I had always been told that pornography was a male dominated industry where the women who stared in such movies were treated like trash and abused. There are a lot of feminists who believe that one cannot be ok with pornography even in the abstract and be a feminist. Then I met someone who told me what it was really like to work in that industry and was a self-identified feminist herself. So that quelled a lot of the conflict I felt over being a "bad" feminist for not having issues with porn as a concept. (I do have a problem with abuse, but I don't think all pornography is abusive just by its existence.)
Stripping doesn't even ding my radar. When I was 14, my mother told me that all the pretty girls she knew when she was young used to dance on the side for extra money. Some with their clothes on and some with their clothes off. And that I should never judge someone for taking their clothes off or for keeping them on. That stuck with me.