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I think my conscience would be more satisfied working in porn than mobile gaming.
by 1000units 8y ago
I think my conscience would be more satisfied working in porn than mobile gaming.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIt's similar to how prostitution seems more ethical than telemarketing - one involves voluntary exchange of value between two willing consenting parties, the other involves harassing people and, frequently, trying to scam them.
- braythwayt 8y agoMy understanding is that the people working in that industry prefer to call it "sex work." "Prostitute" has negative historical connotations. For example, we will say that Mitch McConnell has prostituted himself to billionaires, but we would never call him a sex worker. /ducks
- 1000units 8y agoWe wouldn't call him a "sex worker" precisely because it is an unnatural and forced piece of language.
- LorenPechtel 8y ago"Sex worker" is a broader term than "prostitute". The former covers most every commercial activity whose objective is orgasm, the latter covers only those whose normal job is orgasm via insertion (although they may do it by other means at a client's request.)
- blattimwind 8y ago> The former covers most every commercial activity whose objective is orgasm I don't think that's technically true.
- michaelt 8y agoCertainly, a farmer manually collecting bull semen isn't engaged in sex work. But I would say at the very least "sex work" covers dominatrices, pre-recorded and live-streaming porn performances, strip club and lap dance performances, as well as escorts. So "sex worker" isn't precisely equal to "prostitute"
- hopler 8y agoThe objective of fertility work is sperm/egg/embryo/whatever, not orgasm. If they could efficienctly stick a needle in the gonads and extract the reproductive cells, they would.
- JohnFen 8y agoStrippers are sex workers, but most of them aren't trying to make their customers orgasm. At least, not in the moment.
- 1000units 8y agoVery well, but how do we accomplish this at scale? Email me if interested in discussing!
- wwweston 8y agoMcConnell's gig is inserting his clientele's p...olicy into US law / practice for their pleasure....
- yspeak 8y agoHow is this and like comments within HN's acceptable use policy ? How are they not down voted into Oblivion ? anything that remotely challenges the politicaly correct mindset of silicon valley is shredded.
- imjustsaying 8y agoanytime you'd like to make a claim or an argument, please put it forth rather than simply eject ad hominems and make snarky vague claims.
- jacobsenscott 8y agoOrganized crime has been really successful in spreading the "two willing consenting parties" myth. Trust me - there is only ever one willing consenting party. No woman on earth wants to @%$! a constant parade of scumbags.
- stickfigure 8y agoI suggest you go out and talk to some actual sex workers, with an open mind. I know (socially) a few former sex workers, and they would vehemently disagree with your characterization. The world is way, waaaay more complicated than you seem to think.
- jacobsenscott 8y agoWhich characterization? I made two. I disagree with your characterization that "sex work" is "waaay complicated". Putting together a lego set is more complicated.
- JohnFen 8y ago"there is only ever one willing consenting party" This is demonstrably untrue.
- naniwaduni 8y agoOkay, so now there's one consenting party instead of zero.
- pawelmurias 8y agoI worked in mobile gaming and would never work in porn (unless it was like filtering or prosecuting creators). A coworker hard a good point to say what the people who are addicted to mobile games would be addicted/spend money on if they didn't play. It's possible they would be buying meth/booze with it.
- YaxelPerez 8y agoWe don't hand children meth so that they behave, but we do with mobile games.
- 1000units 8y agoIn fact this is almost exactly what happens with many children being prescribed Adderall.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoTo counteract your bullshit... If someone has ADHD, adderall slows them down so they can concentrate. It reduces mind-fog from too much stimulus. If you don't have ADHD, its like a super cup of coffee, but in pill form. My doctor was trying to figure out my cognitive issue. And for a time, I was on adderall. It was pretty easy to tell that I didn't have ADHD, since I started getting upper'd. Felt nice, don't get me wrong. But I'll stick with coffee.
- zkomp 8y agoMore interesting question: How do we know regular drug users are not self medicating.
- TomMarius 8y agoThey in fact frequently are. There are huge communities dedicated to that on the Internet. BTW a lot of the previously illegal and unthinkable treatments these people used have just been legalised in the EU, using MDMA etc.
- tedajax 8y agoI worked in mobile gaming at one point and the real "beyond the pale" moment was when I came in to work and one of our designers was reading a book titled something along the lines of "The Science of Addiction". Noped out of that and started getting a lot more critical when it comes to where I work with regard to ethics.
- NikkiA 8y agoI've worked in (mobile) porn and the gambling industries; porn was more ethical by far, even if the weirdos were slightly more common (there are a lot of really really weird/creepy 'punters' in the FOB industry)