I just want to use this to open up a discussion about porn and prostitution because I hear multiple takes all claiming that they have the route to women’s liberation and I’d like to find the correct one, lol.
I think that prostitution and most forms of porn are coercive and not good things overall. Is this a reactionary take? If so I want to correct it by all means but I was always under the impression that the porn actors aren’t paid well enough and prostitution/porn often stems from desperation and not actual desire to be those things.
Let me know your thoughts
They definitely aren’t good. They are symptoms of larger issues. I’m sure that nearly everyone involved in sexwork (outside of business owners) would prefer to be doing something else but simply don’t have the means to do so.
However I’d argue against criminalizing the practice as it is a response to lack of other opportunities, the best way to attack it then is to go at the material base that gives rise to it, poverty.