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There's also the issue of gatekeepers squashing deviance. Payment processors killing payments to various legal adult websits. Information-discovery gatekeeper

There's also the issue of gatekeepers squashing deviance. Payment processors killing payments to various legal adult websits. Information-discovery gatekeepers squashing discoverability of deviant material. Social media....has had a dual affect of being subject to the gatekeeper's restrictions and the risk of self-appointed moral busybodies searching for deviant content to threaten peoples' lives/livelihoods over. Cultural gatekeepers are able to exert influence over more people now than they have ever had before in human history. In many cases the ability to be deviant is becoming more difficult to even attempt.

4gotunameagain 1y ago
Labeling pornography as "deviance" is simply funny. It is one of the most prevalent things that exist right now. Which imo is also an outcome of late stage capitalism (money won, as aptly phrased above). You body is a commodity to be monetised, sacrifice everything in the name of money.
- actionfromafar 1y ago
  You put the finger on it - there's something sad about "if only deviance was more easily monetized". Money perverts everything, in a much sadder way than kinks ever can on their own. When you do the thing to get another thing, the inherent joy can so easily seep away. See every content producer following the posting schedule exactly, because the Algorithm punishes deviance from the schedule. Not everyone can be Captain Disillusion.
- el_benhameen 1y ago
  > Your body is a commodity to be monetised That’s my favorite John Mayer song
- tavavex 1y ago
  It's a little telling that the only association you make with "adult content" is immediately "pornography" (and only the kind where you film yourself). There's a lot of stuff that's not advertiser- or corporate-friendly that's being financially squeezed out. Adult content includes many types of goods and services, and many of them are out on the fringes that are part of what the post describes as deviance.
- rockskon 1y ago
  And yet it is routinely taken down, subject constant attacks worldwide who believe they need to prevent others from seeing a nipple on the Internet at all costs, adult toy vendors are routinely removed from vending platforms, age gating by boomer politicians listening to religiously motivated political activists.

4gotunameagain 1y ago

Labeling pornography as "deviance" is simply funny. It is one of the most prevalent things that exist right now. Which imo is also an outcome of late stage capitalism (money won, as aptly phrased above). You body is a commodity to be monetised, sacrifice everything in the name of money.

actionfromafar 1y ago
You put the finger on it - there's something sad about "if only deviance was more easily monetized". Money perverts everything, in a much sadder way than kinks ever can on their own. When you do the thing to get another thing, the inherent joy can so easily seep away. See every content producer following the posting schedule exactly, because the Algorithm punishes deviance from the schedule. Not everyone can be Captain Disillusion.
el_benhameen 1y ago
> Your body is a commodity to be monetised That’s my favorite John Mayer song
tavavex 1y ago
It's a little telling that the only association you make with "adult content" is immediately "pornography" (and only the kind where you film yourself). There's a lot of stuff that's not advertiser- or corporate-friendly that's being financially squeezed out. Adult content includes many types of goods and services, and many of them are out on the fringes that are part of what the post describes as deviance.
rockskon 1y ago
And yet it is routinely taken down, subject constant attacks worldwide who believe they need to prevent others from seeing a nipple on the Internet at all costs, adult toy vendors are routinely removed from vending platforms, age gating by boomer politicians listening to religiously motivated political activists.