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In reply to the discussion: Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)There is no way to tell the difference. There is a significant amount of human trafficking in porn. I provided links elsewhere in this thread to demonstrate that.
You've obviously not bothered to look at the British law that started this whole discussion or you wouldn't be launching into these tangents. The law only outlaws possession or porn in which someone is killed or seriously injured, or where it's impossible to tell if that has happened.
Yes, women can consent to do any work they want, including sex work. Just as Walmart workers consent to make wages so low they can't afford Thanksgiving dinner. That is indeed their choice. That's what the right wingers say. If they took some initiative, they could make more money, afford Thanksgiving dinner, find work that didn't leave them battered and bruised, addicted to drugs, and with STDS. I find Marx's analysis on coercion of free-wage workers more instructive. Free-wage workers, whether at Walmart or in the sex industry, work from economic necessity. The marketplace compels them to work. Though the sex industry, including porn, also uses non-free labor--coerced through extra-economic forces like slavery and debt peonage.
I find it interesting that concerns for workers rights are non-existent when it comes to sex work. But then women who appear in porn aren't competing with men in the workplace, and you all don't have to worry about those pesky EEOC laws you found so objectionable in Adria Richards case. Richards choice was unacceptable, as far as you were concerned. She was too uppity. Porn workers aren't so uppity. They have none of those rights and don't inconvenience men who don't feel they should have to follow EEOC laws in the workplace.