For guys like me, it's great that we get to have this huge abundance of porn from all kinds of girls who would've never done it before. I just feel very sad for the girls and boys who never consented or signed up for this fucked up clown world we've got now. That's all I wanted to say. I am not calling for a ban. I'm just pointing out that this does not help women and in fact only hurts women in the long game.
I don't think this is true. I think ordinary guys have access to knowledge that most women lack and just talking with women and taking their issues seriously makes a real and meaningful difference.
So thank you for conversing with me (as opposed to pissing all over me or just being blatantly dismissive).
I am not calling for a ban.
I'm sorry that you feel accused. I'm not trying to accuse you. But the logical outcome of your objections is a ban, if everyone agrees that you are right.
I'm just pointing out that this does not help women and in fact only hurts women in the long game.
I don't believe this is true. I believe this framing is rooted in broader cultural practices where a woman's sexuality doesn't really belong to her. It's a double standard that needs to be stamped out.
But I've had enough of sounding fighty on the internet for one day. So I will likely bow out of this conversation at this point.
Have a good day.
And I'm doing my best to address those concerns. In a nutshell, I'm saying it's sort of neither here nor there whether we normalize the practice of women getting rich via selling their bodies.
The general narrative goes something like this:
"It's bad for women to make good money off of sex. We should stamp out this practice because it is immoral."
Then I say "But how else can they make good money?" and I get told that's somehow beside the point.
It's not beside the point. It is the point.
If you want to empower women, worry about what is keeping them out of the C Suites of corporations and things like that. Don't worry about sex work. Worry about why trading on their looks or sexuality via sex work or in the course of being entertainers seems to be the only really good way for women to get rich on their own efforts.
Women often turn to sex work because it's the only way they can make adequate money. This is why you see so many single moms working as exotic dancers and the like.
Some of those women would do other things if it wasn't such a huge uphill battle.
That's all I'm trying to say.