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by KyeRussell 1556 days ago
I genuinely can’t tell if this is your legitimate view or if you’re moving the conversation along by making the religious right’s arguments for them. Either way, I’ll bite. 1. Nobody is arguing against a parent’s right to choose their parenting style. This is about altering society to fit their parenting style. 2. Permissive social networks (like Twitter) don’t have an issue with adult content overrunning the network. Furthermore, if adult content wasn’t roped off to all but a couple of mainstream social networks, isn’t it arguable that the reduced concentration will mitigate your hypothesised “overrunning”? 3. The implication that all sex work is exploitative is in 2022 untenable. There are myriad women out there who consensually do sex work when they could do something else instead. Sex work has pros and cons for the worker like any other job. The characterisation of this as “selling their dignity” is indicative of a view of sex and sexuality that is increasingly out of step with the attitudes of the young people who typically engage in sex work. The implication that sex work is exploitative or even “sad” is driven by the US’s legal stance on prostitution. I live in a jurisdiction with more permissive prostitution laws and the difference is night-and-day obvious. The (il)legality of full service sex work fuels the stigma, not the other way around.