grimygurl answered:
I’ve been wondering when I’d get the chance to address this: its not your business
I know nowadays a lot of sex workers on here pull the “we pay taxes!” card to validate our labour and prove its a real job to people who refuse to acknowledge our humanity but honestly it irks me bc not every sex worker can pay taxes on all their income, in fact I’d dare to say the majority cant. stripping and camming are legal so ofc strippers and cam performers can pay taxes based off of what they legally make. full service though? or sugaring, or erotic massage, or any other illegal version of sex work? usually depends on undeclared cash and honestly why should any of the sex workers not protected by the law pay to be persecuted by it? its not like sex workers are inherently outright tax evaders, we pay what we can on what we can safely declare, theres just a wide range of variation in what that means to different sex workers. so basically: please stop thinking of tax paying as marker to validate the legitimacy and morality of sexual labour, it always has been and always will be both those things regardless of which cultural institutions we lack the support of