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Ostracizing sex work has always been the case for thousands of years in every successful culture and religion. In fact, cultures that allowed widespread open s
by eric4smith 4y ago
Ostracizing sex work has always been the case for thousands of years in every successful culture and religion.
In fact, cultures that allowed widespread open sex work have always failed. (No, Amsterdam’s red light district is not “widespread”).
Just because it’s 2022 does not mean things should automatically change. Even Onlyfans performers, strippers and pr0n stars are openly shunned or relegated to non “wifely” roles.
This is because there are super deep lizard brain biological reasons why cultures have always done this.
And it will still take a few more generations before no one bats an eye (25+ years).
Yes, it would be better if it were safe and legal. Would probably be better for it’s consumers and providers.
But in the end the biological imperative to “be fruitful and multiply”, which is deeper than many of us would like to admit - is going to always fight back.
Railing against this ostracism is like railing against the sky being blue.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoAll cultures, of any kind, have failed. That is the nature of time. Culture is constantly dying and being reformed. So an argument that "All cultures that allowed X have failed" is a really tepid argument. The vast majority of cultures that normalized eating have failed, simply because the vast majority of cultures have failed, period. What differentiates Amsterdam's red light district from OnlyFans' red light district's, or Las Vegas's, cultures from any others? The real answer, of course, is that excluding all the examples of something you can think of makes for an easy way of framing your statements as an absolute truth, but that's certainly more than a little underhanded.
- eric4smith 4y agoMmmmm…. You’re very literal here. It’s clear I mean fail more quickly and easily. Of course everything eventually ends.