Here’s How And Why Sex Work Can And Should Revive America’s Middle Class

We always hurt the ones we love. The ones we shouldn’t hurt at all. Paraphrasing a 1944-released Mills Brothers ballad is ideal when contemplating the radical notion that America’s diligent sex workers and the astoundingly lucrative sex work industry could save America’s failing middle class. It’s the idea that legislation like the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act exist as law — and harm consensual sex work as what could be a trillion dollar American industry that employs hundreds of thousands in multiple industries — that just breaks spirits and confounds souls. Here, then, I guess, is a presentation of a very logical and actual positive scenario which is egregiously not occurring.

The deeper sociological purpose for my journalism over the past decade has been attempting to discover whether or not a sustainable middle-class creative economy is possible in America. Around 2008, it was unusually deep and far-reaching nature of the United States’ housing crisis and subsequent economic recession that informed my belief that something was dreadfully misaligned between the American Dream and the modern socioeconomic American reality. On a personal level, it was noting how bizarrely out of whack America had become with its stereotypical national raison d’etre…