I'm listening to RevLeft's episode on proletarian feminism and wondering about this. I think we can agree that in a global socialist society, the sex trade disappears. Under socialism, people only have sex because they want to. At the same time, almost all pornography produced under capitalism is itself produced under coercion. (A small number of porn stars are relatively wealthy and produce pornography because they enjoy it, not because they have to.) If a socialist society decides to make access to that pornography free for all, doesn't that mean that the porn stars (and all other workers involved in the production of pornography) are still being exploited, even if they're dead? In a socialist society, does all desire to jerk off to pornography wither away, since a sexual revolution has presumably also taken place and most people are relatively satisfied with regard to their sexual needs? Will some pornography still exist, produced by the proletariat for the consumption of the proletariat? Will future socialist porn stars be considered heroes of labor? I don't think we ever catch anyone in Star Trek jerking off to porn.
So been listening to peepshow podcast and some episodes I think everyone should listen to are the pornhub processing payments ones.
From what they get from sex workers the worst parts of making porn is the payments. Banks are super discriminatory against sex workers and it's credit card companies that decide what porn gets made based on what gets processed in payments.
We might see new kinds of porn all over the place like for instance from what I learned menstrual blood is not allowed because it creeps out the credit card companies i.e well to do white guys on top.
Taking away their control over this industry could mean porn will become more an art form for all to enjoy and not just dictated by the tastes of a few.