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You claim that you don't like the people currently going after pornhub, but do you ever wonder why the people you do like don't go after them? I've always found

You claim that you don't like the people currently going after pornhub, but do you ever wonder why the people you do like don't go after them? I've always found it very odd that the left never goes after anyone in the porn industry given all the abuse that occurs.

freeone3000 4y ago
Mostly because of this. There's a strong faith-based push to remove all sexual content from the internet, and regulation is one way of doing so. Not being able to sext without a 18 USC 2257 form is overly restrictive on individual freedoms. Not being able to pay providers with MasterCard is a huge barrier to sex work in general. The porn industry should exist as long as people need money for food. Despite how awful some individual actors are, any broad-spectrum push will likely find the wrong allies and encourage the wrong solution.
- colpabar 4y ago
  I guess I can see that. But I think that if you're going to claim that "sex work is real work," I hate to break it to you, but real work comes with a bunch of paperwork (sometimes even background checks) and taxes.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    Pretty sure that porn actors shooting videos for studios or their own onlyfans, indeed, fill out tons of paperwork (including at least weekly STI testing, if they are working for a studio), and also pay taxes on it.
  - yieldcrv 4y ago
    That’s ironically the point… people are pointing out that sex work issues have more similarities to labor issues, as opposed to their own category. Fight sex trafficking the same way as any labor trafficking, by providing more resources to report and change the circumstance. For everything else provide insurance, collect taxes, improve working conditions like any other trade.
- willcipriano 4y ago
  Most of the people I met making these arugments gleefully told me that Twitter was a private company and that the "constitution isn't absolute" when it came to rights I cared about. If you aren't going to defend my right to say that COVID probably leaked from a lab why would I defend your right to soddomize drug addicted young women for money and film it and distribute it?
alisonkisk 4y ago

freeone3000 4y ago

Mostly because of this. There's a strong faith-based push to remove all sexual content from the internet, and regulation is one way of doing so. Not being able to sext without a 18 USC 2257 form is overly restrictive on individual freedoms. Not being able to pay providers with MasterCard is a huge barrier to sex work in general. The porn industry should exist as long as people need money for food. Despite how awful some individual actors are, any broad-spectrum push will likely find the wrong allies and encourage the wrong solution.

colpabar 4y ago
I guess I can see that. But I think that if you're going to claim that "sex work is real work," I hate to break it to you, but real work comes with a bunch of paperwork (sometimes even background checks) and taxes.
- filoleg 4y ago
  Pretty sure that porn actors shooting videos for studios or their own onlyfans, indeed, fill out tons of paperwork (including at least weekly STI testing, if they are working for a studio), and also pay taxes on it.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  That’s ironically the point… people are pointing out that sex work issues have more similarities to labor issues, as opposed to their own category. Fight sex trafficking the same way as any labor trafficking, by providing more resources to report and change the circumstance. For everything else provide insurance, collect taxes, improve working conditions like any other trade.
willcipriano 4y ago
Most of the people I met making these arugments gleefully told me that Twitter was a private company and that the "constitution isn't absolute" when it came to rights I cared about. If you aren't going to defend my right to say that COVID probably leaked from a lab why would I defend your right to soddomize drug addicted young women for money and film it and distribute it?

alisonkisk 4y ago