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      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        A thought experiment:

        If two people decide to film themselves having sex and post it online, who's the rapist? Who's being raped?

          • drhead [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            People don’t post themselves having sex.

            Have you ever heard of exhibitionism? Yes, some people like to post videos of themselves. A lot even do it for free!

            It is an incredibly shameful act and is completely degrading,

            I think this speaks more about the sex negative attitudes that YOU have internalized.

              • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Exhibitionism is a product of class society itself and the need for reassurance and knowledge. It is a symptom that is of capitalist society and should be treated as such, not to allow it.

                Tell me how homosexuality is bourgeois decadence next

                • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  i always do feel like this sort of thing is gonna go that way :agony-shivering:

                • Lilith [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  that's almost always a couple dog whistles away

                • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Apparently the desire to be looked at in a sexual manner or watched doing sexual acts is unique to capitalism lmaooo. No one else does it apparently.

                  :agony-shivering:

                • RION [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  Comrades, is it counterrevolutionary to want other people to see your genitals? Idk sounds a little bougie to me

                  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    This is basic psychoanalysis.

                    Thanks, Freud.

                    Even if it does come from capitalism, so what? Fucking communism comes from capitalism. Or, less outrageously: movies and TV and the device you're using to post are all rooted in capitalism. Should we ban them in socialist societies?

                    Edit: books cancelled for coming from feudalism

                  • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    One must never mistake psychoanalysis for psychology. D&G are useful for some things, but psychoanalysis is not reflective of reality.

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Exhibitionism is a product of class society itself and the need for reassurance and knowledge. It is a symptom that is of capitalist society and should be treated as such, not to allow it.

                I mean not really. For a much milder example here, people post thirst traps on social media showing off their bodies and junk though their underwear all the time, this happens everywhere, it's not just a thing in the west or whatever. Some people like to be seen sexually or doing sexual stuff, regardless of any capitalist society or lack thereof.

                I agree with some of what you're saying, I also strongly disagree with the rest of what you're saying. Some people just like to show off sexually towards others. And there's not anything wrong with that as long as it's all consensual. In fact a lot of people would probably enjoy it and do it more if it wasn't for unrealistic messed up beauty standards, societal taboo, etc.

                • DJMSilver [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Social media is a product of capitalist society. You don't recognize how what you post is a reflection of the current mode of production in where you live in where imperialism is predominant?

                  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    That is true, but some people will still have the desire to be viewed in a sexual manner or observed having sex without capitalism. It existed before capitalism. Some people enjoy showing off their body in varying ways, from a little sexual to extremely sexual, just because they like it. There is nothing inherent to the capitalist mode of production here.

                    I agree with you on most internet porn though, people are addicted and watch way too much of that stuff. And have really weird libertarian style reactions towards anyone critical of it. Remember that user, who turned out was trying to solicit users though direct messages, throwing a massive temper tantrum when Pornhub removed unverified videos?

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              • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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                2 years ago

                Exhibitionism is a product of class society itself and the need for reassurance and knowledge

                Sounds like pseudoscience to me.

                Try listening to prostitutes

                Okay. I have. I've heard a variety of beliefs regarding prostitution and "empowerment" from sex workers, because I actually spoke to them and didn't just watch a documentary and decide it was reflective of all sex workers. Turns out a lot of folks like making porn, as long as they aren't doing it in the awful conditions of the professional industry. Some folks even enjoy prostitution. Others don't particularly enjoy sex work, but prefer it to other forms of labor. Others do hate sex work and the violence they are regularly exposed to, although all of those individuals I've spoken to believed they would be significantly safer if prostitution were decriminalized.

              • Lilith [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                Exhibitionism is a product of class society itself and the need for reassurance and knowledge. It is a symptom that is of capitalist society and should be treated as such, not to allow it.

                quoting this to save for later because it is hilarious

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            People don’t post themselves having sex.

            People do this all the fucking time.

            you are able to reap the sexual enjoyment without feeling “guilty”. The truth is that you should.

            Why?

            • Venusta [any]
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              2 years ago

              it’s he/hims who are the swerfs every time

              • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                I think there is a context where china's choice to make porn illegal is at the very least understandable. I also am sympathetic to the fact that the porn industry is rife with massive exploitation and human trafficking. Including children.

                This guy above though is nuts. He has bad opinions about sex in general and doesn't understand that a consenting couple can post a video of themselves (even for money! Oh no!!)

                Ultimately I think its fairly obvious that most sex work is done as a result of material circumstances. Like all labor, this makes sex work a kind of slavery. In order to root out the issue of women having to resort to sex work to feed their families (absolutely not a shameful thing to do by the way) we must address the material circumstances of the population. We should not be punitive with people who are trying to support themselves. We should be extremely punitive with pimps though, who are just human traffickers. With legal porn industry, obviously it must be regulated strictly with the wellbeing of the sex worker in mind.

                After material conditions are addressed there will remain a subset of the population who still performs sex work, which would be just fine and good if they find that fulfilling. This is my opinion on sex work.

          • NuraShiny [any]
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            2 years ago

            HAHAHAHAHAHA

            Oh wow. Shut the fuck up troll.

          • Lilith [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            People don’t post themselves having sex.

            :I-was-saying:

            I call back to the Zizek quote where the worst slave owners were the ones you treated their slaves nicely, amateur porn is no exception since you are able to reap the sexual enjoyment without feeling “guilty”. The truth is that you should.

            :yikes-1::yikes-3:

            you should not compare onlyfans to the american slave trade

          • DJMSilver [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Do you think imported Asian immigrant class are consensually giving hand jobs to whoever wants a "happy ending". Why do the majority of countries have prostitution illegality, (or look at any socialist country such as the USSR) you'll find your answer.

            • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Do you think imported Asian immigrant class are consensually giving hand jobs to whoever wants a “happy ending”

              No, I don't. You still haven't explained how two people posting a video of themselves having sex online is not consensual.

              Edit: how long do we usually give conservative debate bros until we ban them?

                • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  I'm using this an example because your opinion is clearly that all porn, no matter what, is vile and damaging to women and exploitative and rape.

                  Not a single point in your list says anything at all about consent. Where did the people posting it get raped?

                • NuraShiny [any]
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                  2 years ago

                  What if I, a dude according to my genes, take it up the ass from another dude while wearing a dress? I am into that let me assure you.

                  What if I jerk off with one of those fancy cock sleeves? No one else would be involved. Am I exploiting myself then?

                  Clearly your take is very reductive and thus bad. Yes lots of women get exploited for porn, no one is arguing otherwise, but not ALL porn is exploitation. It is possible to consent to porn and it is possible to make porn that isn't bad.

                • drhead [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yeah, I'm sure posting a video of my husband and I on Twitter would give people a very unhealthy view of women...

                • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Anyway, most socialist countries don’t have this phenomenon of people filming themselves having sex and releasing it

                  You are completely ignorant. China has a lot of couples who post sex videos. It's not legal, but you don't have to look hard to find a lot of examples.

                • Lilith [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  I have created queer porn and sold it for money. I have also previously worked as an escort. I am not ashamed of either of those things.

                  All of your writing downplays the factual harm that SWERF ideology inflicts on sex workers, in particular women.

              • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                Edit: how long do we usually give conservative debate bros until we ban them?

                There are definitely problems with what they are saying, but this is clearly not what being a "debate bro" is, they are just engaging in argument when challenged. Should they be challenged? Of course, they are wrong in part, but answering that challenge doesn't make them a debate bro.

              • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                To be fair this person has been here since 2020. This is a common point of disagreement on the left, I don't think we should ban this user

                • Lilith [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  Oh, I think we should. They're sexist as hell.

            • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Why do the majority of countries have prostitution illegality

              The export of British and/or German insanity via imperialism.

    • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Porn is not always filmed rape. If me and my girlfriend want to have sex on camera and post it, that's porn, but there is no rape involved. Big porn companies, I can see this argument working, but its just false for amateur porn

      • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        but its just false for amateur porn

        Also ignoring the metric tonnes of amateur porn posted where one participant is too intoxicated to consent, a minor (who is far enough into puberty that there's "plausible deniability"), not aware that they are being filmed, some poor callgirl under the authority of a pimp, and a number of other scenarios.

        If you and your gf want to be exhibitionists for money and/or fun, good for you, but let's not pretend that amateur porn is categorically not rape.*

        *which is not the same as "let's not pretend it's not categorically rape," because examples like yours do disprove that.

        • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Oh I absolutely recognize that lots of "amateur" porn is rape. In fact a lot of cases of trafficked people fall under "amateur" porn. Sorry I wasn't clear there, I was addressing the point he made that 1. Porn is filmed rape, and 2. A couple making money off of porn doesn't make it rape

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        My stance with regards to sex work is simple: I believe sex workers should be organized, johns should be send to reeducation, and pimps should face the wall.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          It’s funny how police will chase individual prostitutes to the ends of their jurisdiction and beyond, but won’t touch the pimps.

          • Quimby [any, any]
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            2 years ago

            it's the same reason they'll go after "illegal immigrants", but never the business owners who intentionally employ them as cheap labor.

            cops protect capital.

        • Lilith [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Cheers to the part about pimps. Johns are fine, some people want sex :shrug-outta-hecks:

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Johns should be sent to reeducation

          So, once all the johns are reeducated then what? Who are the clients for the newly organized sex workers? Not sure there's any consistency in your stance on those two groups.

          pimps should face the wall

          100% full agree there

      • Lilith [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I hate when people apply western standards to non western countries.

        The people who do this are saying a lot more about their own prejudices than they realize.

      • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You can be a consenting sex worker in the west because most people can switch to any job in an instant - you can’t do that outside the west and developed nations much of the time. ‘Sex work’ isn’t positive for everyone.

        It shouldn't be equated to the horrendous trafficking faced in China and Korea and still faced somewhat more quietly throughout Southeast Asia (and beyond), but I must point out that many prostitutes even in the west are still doing it out of desperation and still may struggle to escape it should they try to leave.

        If they are under the authority of a pimp, they may face violent reprisal, and there are also practices by pimps such as deliberately getting prostitutes addicted to drugs to prevent them from being able to leave.

        Your statement stands for other forms of sex work within the west, of course.

    • Lilith [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Porn pays my bills lol

      Edit:

      porn is filmed rape.

      fuck you

      • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If you accept that all wage labor is exploitation, does it not follow then that wage labor in sex work is exploitation?

        I don't mean to be smug and high and mighty. I watch porn. But still...unless it's two independent amateurs performing under a system where we can accept that their lives do not depend on it...yeah...it's probably bad.

        • drhead [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It is exploitative for the same reasons all wage labor is, which is why it is very suspicious when sex work is singled out.

          • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Individual subjects exist, though? We don't need to -- and indeed shouldn't -- always talk about all forms of exploitation all at once.

            There is also the fact that the social context of porn is somewhat unique. It's pretty unusual for college guys to get someone intoxicated in order to coerce them into working at a lumber mill, film it, and post it online under false pretenses for ad revenue, with no regard for how the coerced person may have been given long-term physical and psychological harm from the event.

            • drhead [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I think that's more of a distinction of how the exploitation is performed or enforced rather than what the act is. We do have similar things that happen for other forms of labor -- IIRC, children that end up enslaved on cocoa plantations are often sold by their parents to human traffickers under false pretenses that they'll receive an education.

              The part that I'm really objecting to here is the notion that pornography is categorically bad. It makes as much sense in my mind as saying agricultural labor is categorically bad because of what I described with human trafficking and child slaves. I agree that human trafficking in sex work is distinctly worse than wage labor and that we must do everything we can to make sex work safe for those who wish to engage in it. But if it is taking place in a form similar to wage labor, or the person is just posting it freely because they like doing it, then I don't think it's uniquely worse than anything else.

        • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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          2 years ago

          I trust you but here's where what you said leads: it reminds me of my old days of being an incel rightoid. You can't talk about ANY injustice unless you talk about ALL injustice all at once, because then you'd be a hypocrite. Which I learned is a tactic to shut down uncomfortable subjects.

          It's all exploitation yet we act as though we believe there's degrees to it. Why ever talk about Amazon pee bottles? Nobody has unlimited bathroom time.

        • drhead [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Please tell me how all of the gay furry porn I look at is harming women? I am very interested in knowing this.

            • RION [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ idk what to tell you the free market has spoken

        • Lilith [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Proletarian women are able to see how even innocuous “amateur porn” is still exploitative

          Stop speaking for me. I do not agree with this.

        • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          there’s a lot of sex pests in here

          Did the definition of this term just change overnight? I feel like I'm losing my mind . . .

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah unfortunately it's the internet so I'm guessing a lot of people here are porn addicts, which would explain that.

          Been there, it's not healthy.

        • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Some labor aristocrats enjoy making porn, so being against widespread industrialized sexual exploitation makes you a SWERF.

          • drhead [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Saying that paying for consent is rape, which by definition rules out sex work completely, does make one a SWERF.

            • Venusta [any]
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              2 years ago

              asuming they’re even a feminist to begin w and not just a bigot and anti sex work :agony-minion:

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Saying all porn is rape and you should feel guilty for watching even consensually filmed and posted amateur porn is definitely not SWERF shit, actually