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I'm beginning to wonder if sex-related information has some affect of the 'universal acid' that dissolves too many of the fantasies we need to sustain ourselves
by apocalypstyx 8y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if sex-related information has some affect of the 'universal acid' that dissolves too many of the fantasies we need to sustain ourselves. This seems to me one reasons society, as a whole, tends to hate sex workers so much: there's something about it that nakedly reveals the capitalist-market transactions we are all submerged in and can't escape from, and it reveals it in such way our only recourse is the instinctual reflexes of 'kill it with fire' and 'nuke it from orbit'. In regards to porn, or the discussions we have around porn, it often times seems as if we are on the verge of having to, or being forced to, articulate that not only can most people not tell the difference between reality and fantasy (how many people refer to an actor by a character's name, rather than at least, as 'the actor who played X'?). Instead, we come close to being forced to admit that not only is there no reality-fantasy divide, but that everything is fantasy, that everything is models in our heads, even our heads.