actual friendly reminder: being anti-porn does not make you anti-consenting sex worker
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actually ya it does
No?????? it doesnt???? please explain to me how an industry that exploits and traumatizes women is equivalent to independent consenting sex workers????????????????? its literally like comparing a brothel/pimp to an independent cam girl
Well if you really listened to sex-workers you’d know that *many* have said you can’t be anti-porn and still support them. I suggest you listen to them before you make statements you are not in the position to be making. How are supposed to support someone and their work if you don’t support their work? This is like someone saying they support my choice to have an abortion but are morally against abortion. Do you realize how incredibly patronizing this is? I don’t want that kind of support at all. Also there is also a *huge* difference between sex-trafficking and sex-work and porn in general, perhaps you are confusing the two? You also don’t have to support the bad side of porn in fact I recommend you don’t but saying you’re anti-porn in general means you don’t support sex-workers. I’m not trying to be rude or anything but I feel like you really haven’t been listening to sex-workers very much and you don’t have as much respect for them as you think you do. I would recommend looking into why many sex-workers feel that anti-porn means you do not support them.
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Like labor practices in CERTAIN (not all) sectors of the porn industry suck. But that doesn’t mean you should be anti-porn any more than you should be anti-chocolate because of labor conditions on cocoa farms (which are hideous). Oppose bad labor conditions, and not the product of labor because that’s just silly
Also like not all brothels and even not all pimps are coercive, and as a cam girl the website I work through takes TWO FUCKING THIRDS of what I earn… so that’s incredibly sucky.
Like brothels and pimps can just be bosses (and now being a hardline commie I believe that bosses shouldn’t exist and workers should seize the means of production, and that includes full service sex workers seizing brothels). They’re owners, just like the owners of cam websites, and while yes it sucks that they take a portion of the value the workers create, it also sucks that the guy who owns your local Staples takes a portion of the value his workers create, same with the owner of a hamburger stand or the owner of a factory.
Owners suck, but brothel owners, and porn studios aren’t actually any worse than any other shitty boss. Just because sex workers jobs are sexual doesn’t make them different from any other form of labor.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 