Fucking creeps

[BainsBane]

106. because they refuse to think about the lives of the women in that porn

or how women and male rape victims are affected by a rape culture in which that porn proliferates. They keep evoking a nonsensical argument about the state not becoming involved in relations between "consenting adults," as though this is about what goes on in their bedrooms. They don't ask the women being raped in the porn for consent, nor do they know if she even gave consent. Porn is property to them, and the women don't exist as anything other than the property of the producers and viewers.

I don't care about people's private sexual lives. That is entirely their business. But when they try to turn it into a political position and make some grand pronouncement about "freedom" requiring their ability to get off watching women raped and mutilated, that pisses me off. Again, porn is not their personal private sex life. It involves real people who come to that work through a variety of circumstances, from economic privation to debt peonage and even enslavement. It also has impacts society in general because it is rape culture writ large.