@iquaanyin@mastodon.social *selling* implies it.
It doesn't matter what you're selling, the implication is that you find yourself better off having made that choice, or else you wouldn't have done it.
But I was thinking, you can look at it the other way around: if it does imply abject desperation, then outlawing this transaction doesn't outlaw the abject desperation. That person is in just as bad a place as before.
It's just that you've removed one option from that poor person for responding to their situation.