The mainstream culture around porn and sites that host it is deeply objectifying and misogynistic. We still have problems with he/him pronouns coming into threads where conventionally attractive women are posted to AWOOGA (ironically or not) and that's without even allowing pornographic content. We try very hard to NOT be reddit, which means excising as much of that grossness as possible, and we still have a good ways to go.
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It's a pain in the ass to moderate and significantly increases the chance that CP will get posted. No one wants to be exposed to that and we don't want to be liable for such disgusting content ending up here.
Based on these reasons, the most sensible policy is a blanket ban on porn.
Yeah it really sucks how simply showing yourself on the internet as a woman (or someone people think looks like one) is taken as an invitation for sexual comments. And so much of the time it takes the form of copy-pasted phrases that people will defend as "just a joke" if you call them out on it. I swear people lose all of their braincells when they go on the internet, like it's not less sexual harassment just because it's the internet.
Yeah I feel like genuine, impactful sex-positivity requires understanding and internalizing leftist theory. Even the most well-meaning and ostensibly "progressive" libs who claim to be sex-positive are still holding on to patriarchal concepts of sex and consent, intentionally or not. And unsurprisingly, the worst offenders in that regard are cishet dudes. Many self-proclaimed "woke" guys just want a plausible excuse to be creeps, rather than actively helping break down the walls that capitalists have built around our conceptions of intimacy and love.
It boils down to a couple main reasons:
2. [CW: child abuse]
It's a pain in the ass to moderate and significantly increases the chance that CP will get posted. No one wants to be exposed to that and we don't want to be liable for such disgusting content ending up here.
Based on these reasons, the most sensible policy is a blanket ban on porn.
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Yeah it really sucks how simply showing yourself on the internet as a woman (or someone people think looks like one) is taken as an invitation for sexual comments. And so much of the time it takes the form of copy-pasted phrases that people will defend as "just a joke" if you call them out on it. I swear people lose all of their braincells when they go on the internet, like it's not less sexual harassment just because it's the internet.
Yeah I feel like genuine, impactful sex-positivity requires understanding and internalizing leftist theory. Even the most well-meaning and ostensibly "progressive" libs who claim to be sex-positive are still holding on to patriarchal concepts of sex and consent, intentionally or not. And unsurprisingly, the worst offenders in that regard are cishet dudes. Many self-proclaimed "woke" guys just want a plausible excuse to be creeps, rather than actively helping break down the walls that capitalists have built around our conceptions of intimacy and love.