Sex work is real work, yes, but it's not work I would glorify.

Trash collecting is real work too.

So is the treatment of human waste.

Also sex has a social component that other jobs don't have, which can lead to major social consequences.

Sex work is real work, but it isn't "just" work.

If sex work was "just work" then it would be totally acceptable for a Fortune 500 CEO to ask his secretary to get him off. Just like fetching coffee or refilling the printer ink, right?

Sex work isn't just work, and it isn't glamorous work.

But it is real work.