• SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    75
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    18 hours ago

    Putting aside the psychotic torture fantasies of these unhinged weirdos, could I please give perspective?

    I’m anti-pornography. I’m also a former sex worker. I don’t think that no one should consume porn, but you need to realize how horrific the porn industry truly is. It’s why I think people should consume amateur stuff, OF, and independent makers. Big name companies are abusive, full-stop. There are, of course, exceptions with smaller stuff, too, but if you knew what these women and girls AND many boys and men go through for the sake of porn, I hope you would be horrified and disgusted.

    This is not a moralistic, prude, “Christian-viewpoint”-thing. Far from it! All I’m saying is that if most of y’all can be furious & boycott N×stlé for their human rights abuse, y’all should also look into ethical porn consumption.

    • Zacryon@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      14 hours ago

      but if you knew what these women and girls AND many boys and men go through for the sake of porn, I hope you would be horrified and disgusted

      What do they go through?

    • Zacpod@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      14 hours ago

      100% OF, Chaturbate, or whatever. Only ethical way to go. The actors are fully in control of what they’re willing to do, and for how much.

      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 hours ago

        Mostly, there are cases (Colombia for sure to my knowledge) where girls work at call center-like facilities operating OF, Chaturbate, etc accounts and hand over a cut to the owners of the facility.

        Best case, it’s a contractor studio where girls with little to no money/access to the Internet and decent hardware can make a bit of money. I’m sure there are worse cases and would rather not think about how people twist that model into slavery.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      13 hours ago

      This is where I am at. Sex work was dehumanizing and traumatizing. I was recorded once during an assault. There’s a lot of problematic attitudes towards sex that make the industry damaging and dangerous.

      It’s just obnoxious that loons like this are so common in anti-porn spaces.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah, I know. Drugs to keep the dick hard. Drugs to keep everything not sensitive enough. Drugs to keep going for hours on end. Badly ventilated rooms that begin to smell too much like bodily fluids. I’ve heard the stories of a few cameramen who started their career filming porn.

      No wonder most “professionally” made porn always looks so fake to me.

      Personally, when it comes to porn I like drawn or animated much better.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Well… sure. That.

        Tap for spoiler

        And rape.

        Horrific, merciless, torturous rape. And it can go on for days.

        And they essentially own you. They often make sure you’re in such dire straits that they can take advantage of that and force you to do things you never agreed to because they know you’re desperate.

        And they record it. And they’ll sell it. And you get to live with knowing that potentially thousands of people get to see you being tortured and get off from seeing you absolutely suffer at your lowest of lows.

        The drugs just sometimes help to dull the pain. And make you forget. Sometimes.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I don’t have any real disagreement, but I think the problem is capitalism. The abuses in sex work are more visceral, but capitalism will create horrors for a few pennies.

      • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        12 hours ago

        capitalism guarantees it will always be more profitable to be immoral.
        i keep repeating it but it’s so simple and not said enough.
        if company A is concerned about morality and company B isn’t, and they’re both selling the same thing, company B will make more profit… they will eventually destroy company A.
        even with companies that advertise being super conscientious and make it part of their brand, it’s going to be more profitable to pretend to be than to actually be.
        so, buying from giant corporations will always be more evil than buying from small, good groups… and will always be cheaper.
        and of course, this applies to porn.
        from what i’ve read in AMA’s and such from ex-porn victims, the business model is basically trick them into signing disclaimers, drug and rape them, and then don’t pay them what they were told.
        i can’t watch regular porn anymore… not that it’s super healthy anyways… but with the big companies, you’re basically watching videos of a crime.
        even with sites like OF, people will pay a lot more for more fucked up stuff… stuff that damages your body… family and friends eventually find out and it fucks up lives in ways they didn’t expect….

        there’s no disclaimer about “eventually when you have kids, they’ll be picked on because they’ll find out their mom did porn… everyone at the PTA will gossip and know, and you’ll be treated with disrespect forever”.

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      17 hours ago

      Yep

      That’s why I do what I do. I hope that people can find something they like, for free, without the exploitation

      My fiancée and I want to make educational stuff for people too

      Some troll had already said that we must be ugly because we don’t want to charge

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Which is a completely valid perspective, it’s stuff like this that is being posted that actually makes your perspective both be not noticed, why would it be when there is salacious and audacious takes to post and discuss but also undermines you, now some rando is going to read this and put you in this camp and automatically write you off as crazy and your ideas as immediately dismissible. The problem is that even if this is “rage bait” its existence and proliferation will silence you as a side effect, that’s the actual purpose of “rage bait”

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 hours ago

      Amateur porn tends to be way better anyway. The ladies look way less plastic and sad, the moans aren’t usually horribly overdone, and it’s just hotter in general.