Why does Belle Knox consider herself a feminist?

[Warren DeMontague]

96. Sort of like the single-minded determination to make arguments about consenting adults

about non-consent and non-adults, anything except the consenting adults the arguments are actually about.

Fact is- and I weighed in on the other thread, I've never been one to imagine there are easy answers to things like prostitution, but I do believe that economic exploitation issues would be best addressed from a bottom-up approach, in terms of a livable min. wage, a solid social safety net, etc. Whether that economic exploitation takes the form of women who strip because they can't make a living any other way, OR the form of the person who has to work 3 mini-mart jobs just to make ends meet... give the people at the bottom more options, is the way to address choice vs. desperation; rather than imagining that too many choices are available. But the fact is, since GD has been subsumed by "porn and prostitution", you have two glaringly different situations, one mostly legal and one mostly illegal.

And with porn, even when people don't like porn, even when people don't like the content in porn, the fact is that there is a bright legality line between adults and non-adults when it comes to porn; anything involving non-adults is very illegal, and should be. Furthermore, the commercial adult industry in the US has regulations and documentation to verify age as well as consent. The hyperbole about widespread non-consent and non-adults in commercially available porn, is simply made up.

So you have a situation where regulation combined with legality actually puts forth a framework for legal consenting adult behavior while criminalizing everything else.

Again, I'm not some big "prostitution ought to be legal" person, but I am certainly sympathetic to the argument that consenting adults ought to be free to make their own decisions about their own lives and bodies, and that includes, IF it is their choice, having sex in exchange for money.