Choice and the Sex Trade

To me, choice feminism is a fucking curse.

It ignores societal limitations on women's freedoms and elevates choices that are not even remotely feminist to a virtuous level - simply because they are being made by someone who identifies as female. Sexual choices are a particularly controversial part of the mix.
For example, a female choosing to cosplay as a Gorean sex slave is a choice. It is not one I feel any obligation to approve of or respect. The Gor books were written by a man called John Norman who explicitly stated that he feels female submission is the 'natural order of things'. His works decry consent as unnecessary and unnatural. His works are so egregiously offensive that fellow fantasy author Michael Moorcock has said, "I’m not for censorship but I am for strategies which marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten."

This is distinct from BDSM as a lifestyle, as BDSM is consensual, and also features male slaves and female dominants. It is also distinct from a woman who 'chooses' to be in the sex trade. It's a choice where a female is endorsing and participating in a subjugation that is still very real problem for many women across the world - as a hobby. 

Choice and the Sex Trade

Rachel Moran

Brooke Magnanti (better known as Belle du Jour) chose to be a £300 an hour prostitute in London, in order to help fund her doctoral studies. In Rupert Everett's documentary, 'Love for Sale', both she and Everett belittled dismissed a woman called Rachel Moran, who had been forced into prostitution as a child - because Moran had inconveniently pointed out that not all sex work was empowering and glitzy.

It could successfully be argued that both women should have had the choice of another (better?) source of income, and that Magnanti had choices the other woman did not. 

Magnanti is intelligent, accomplished and in some ways very admirable. She also lacks empathy, is solipsistic, and like many of the 3rd wave feminists she hates, doesn't understand the intricacies of choice and agency. 

For example, she maintains that if your job doesn't give you enough maternity leave, you can choose to find another job. Something that would work as a philosophy if it were a problem with one or two employers and not an endemic issue. And is probably an option for her, as she's a highly educated research scientist and published author who has won numerous awards. 
The failure to recognise that other people have different or fewer choices than you do is immensely damaging.