It is pertinent in my view because people want to discuss it as if it is already "job", and regular "work" like any other "work" is "work", as if there is a "worker" there is "work". More than that, some want it decriminalized, with no regulations, while others legalized with job industry designation.
In order for something to be destigmatized, legitimized, or abolished, if seen to be not worth the effort. Then all those cards should be on the table being looked at.
We need to know what that "work" is and indeed if it is work, or can be work.
Where it fits, how it applys to similar work, is all part of the examination process to see; where/if it fits into our agreed to social contract, how it could fit better and what it takes to make it fit.
We can't have legally accepted work, that in reality compells people to give their lives into the service of another, because there is no regulations, that everyone else has to follow in order to assure personal autionomy is met...in accordance with our Charter of Rights.
There are no blank slate consumer rights.
People can't kill bears for their gall bladders, because people want to buy them for their health benefits.
Do we as a society think some have a right to risk other people's lives, no matter how willing they are, so that they can have an ejaculatory response in public and private, without regulations?
Is a bear worth more than some human's lives?
Officially granting some greater civil liberties than others is wrong headed. And there is no job or gender equity in that direction.
Things can't stay the way they are, people are suffering, and dying, over ejaculatory responses, for god's sakes, solutions need to be found. Yesterday.