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    It is not the case that The prostitute's work differs from that of other low-status workers.

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    • 1.Marx and subsequent labor theorists argue that all wage labor under capitalism involves a non-reciprocal alienation of the worker's capacities from their self-determination.
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    • 2.The Marxist tradition of alienated labor applies universally to commodity exchange of human labor-power, undermining any claim that prostitution's non-reciprocity is categorically unique.
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    • 3.Carole Pateman's own framework, while defending the distinction, acknowledges that all employment contracts involve submission of the person, which weakens the sharp boundary she draws.
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    • 1.Many forms of low-status labor—acting, massage therapy, surrogacy—involve the body and its intimate capacities in ways structurally similar to sex work.
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    • 2.If bodily intimacy alone distinguished prostitution, these professions would require identical moral analysis, yet they rarely receive it, revealing inconsistency in the distinction.
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    • 1.The prostitute's labor is a form of labor that cannot be reciprocated.
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    • 2.Other low-status labor does not share this non-reciprocal character.
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