This is a category of sex work. There is sex work in which adults choose that it’s labor they’d prefer to participate in, I support that sex work. Then there’s a long spectrum that ends in places like this. You can’t criminalize this stuff away. When minors are so desperate they’re selling sex you need to look at the material root causes

There are recordings of an interview with a historian in which Sylvia Rivera talks about how she got into sex work as a child. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating and more than anything it’s a condemnation of the circumstances in which she lived.