And I know it is all ok in the end- Kiki has friends who look out for her and she takes care of herself and finds her place.

It's basically puritanical horseshit badly covered by a fake mask of feminism. They don't actually give a shit.

I don't care what community it is. I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's the most lonely, more marginalized person on Earth --- nobody is owed sex. Nobody needs sex. Nobody Has To Have Sex or they'll die or kill themselves. Maybe that sex worker "enjoyed" his job, fine. But I will not let you ignore that that is not the majority. I will not let you pretend that all prostitutes are living in some safe haven where they're doing prostitution on the side, where prostitution is not their main source of income. No. No. No. You do not get to do that. Because the reality is (even though I know you don't want to hear it, even though I know you scream "listen to sex workers!" Until we aren't happy to be your whore,) that the sex industry is a patriarchal violent one. It runs on women&girls in poverty who need to eat or pay their bills or feed their children/little siblings. There's no choice. And sex with coercion is not sex, it's rape. Prostitution is repeated rape.

What of a whores' happiness? What of ours? Do you care about ours? What about our safety, our comfortability? Or do you only care about the poor John that can't get his dick wet? We are not the scraps. We are not who you go to when nobody's willing to fuck you for free, because you shouldn't ever be able to pay for someone's consent. If they wouldn't have sex with you without the money, its not consensual. Because you can tokenize this disabled man that Needed Sex (no he didn't. Nobody NEEDS sex. That's rape rhetoric), but most Johns are pathetic, annoying, pedophilic rapists. All John's are rapists. Point blank.

Also, as a sex worker myself—fuck the hell off lmao. Me saying that we deserve to be protected in our work and that we have the power to do some good is not me dismissing Everything Awful About The Industry Ever™️, it's me pointing out the obvious—with better protections, we can help more, be targeted less, and get those who are forced into the industry out of it and into safe places.

This says it all, I think, but I do have more thoughts on the accusation that prostitution is "repeated rape".

Two consenting adults having sex, or doing sexual activities, is not rape and for someone allegedly concerned with rape, you'd think you would go out of your way to not desensitize people to the word by using it incorrectly in an attempt to inspire an emotional response, but I can't say I'm too surprised that you didn't take that route. After all, logic and basic human empathy is missing from your response.