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.
It wasn't his dead friend, it was a recreation of the designer of the Enterprise's engine who he ended up kind of turning into a waifu (In a later episode, the actual person shows up on the Enterprise and finds Geordi's use of her likeness understandably creepy, though she still ends up marrying him later IIRC)
Of course, you also have the sex tourism planet, Risa. Though as I understand it, there's no prostitution involved
No the designer Geordi was Holo-creeping was actually ALREADY married when she visited the Enterprise and met Geordi. Before she arrived Geordi was all prepared to make her fall in love with him but once that is revealed the rest of the episode is Geordi overcoming the preemptive cucking of his preemptive wife and learning to work together anyway and all that.
weird ass episode imo but something like this is literally going to happen to people one day if not already lmao
You'd think the Federation would have some serious legislation regarding likenesses of living individuals in Holodeck simulations, like Barclay just straight up turned his female coworkers/superiors into weird waifus
there's a few episodes like that where im just like "seriously no one considered this problem before and already set a precedent?" but I think it's just sci-fi storytelling convenience. like how the Enterprise, the flagship of the entire Federation, gets sent alone into uncharted space like every other week.