> to prevent these power imbalances and pressured sex in the workplace
The power imbalances and pressures are the same for picking up dry cleaning.
Sexual consent is treated differently because of how the laws shaped our views of prostitution. If prostitution, legally speaking, becomes a normal job like serving ice cream or sweeping the floor, then your sideline example naturally follows and is not some kind of exceptional case.
But is that a world you want to live in? Where your wife or girlfriend is sleeping with her boss to ensure she gets a favorable raise and that's just considered part of being a woman?
You are conflating sex work between a sex worker and their client, and sex between a boss and their employees. Most of your comments are conflating sex work, and sexual abuse. These are two different issues, and the data shows decriminalizing all parts of sex work, both buying and selling is the most effective way to make sex work a safer occupation.
The power imbalances and pressures are the same for picking up dry cleaning.
Sexual consent is treated differently because of how the laws shaped our views of prostitution. If prostitution, legally speaking, becomes a normal job like serving ice cream or sweeping the floor, then your sideline example naturally follows and is not some kind of exceptional case.