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The Internet Is for Porn

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Re: The Internet Is for Porn

#4
As an asexual person, I wish this wasn’t the case, and I find it extremely triggering how hard it is to completely avoid adult content online.

It certainly has had a negative affect on my mental health.

I also find it ridiculous how services like PornHub and OnlyFans are featuring a lot of videos which clearly fetishizes borderline (okay, obvious) pedophilia, and, since its profitable, only pull it down when they might be in legal trouble for it.

Re: The Internet Is for Porn

#5
There was absolutely no need to include the stupid fake feminist take. Plenty of women and plenty of feminists also oppose porn.

The problem with onlyfans and chaturbate and others is that there are a lot of serious criminal activities that the creators might be engaged in. Anything from the creator stating they are over age when they are a minor, to full blown sex slavery where girls are held and forced to perform against their will. So it is understandable that people are wary of getting into that mess.

The same fake feminist spewing bullshit about men keeping sex workers down, will very quickly accuse the same men of profiting from sex slavery or child porn if they had invested in these platforms.

Re: The Internet Is for Porn

#6
Nice, found a bunch of vids of featured "performer" Aella getting boffed on Spankbang. Surely "unashamed casual porn consumer" OP would have no problem if his sister were also a "performer" on Onlyfans.

Re: The Internet Is for Porn

#8
Porn isn't going anywhere. The oldest known depiction of a human figure is pornographic [0]. Since porn will always exist, better that it be produced and consumed in the open, legally speaking. Sex workers deserve the same safety and labor protections as the rest of us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels

Re: The Internet Is for Porn

#9
I joke with friends that the internet was invented by porn coders - back in the 90s, porn companies would pay college kids to deliver more porn faster, cheaper (with perl). Before that it was porn BBSes doing the same thing, people would pay for dialup access to download. Porn delivery has been on the forefront of pushing certain areas of tech for a long time, it's just not openly acceptable.

Re: The Internet Is for Porn

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post #4

As an asexual person, I wish this wasn’t the case, and I find it extremely triggering how hard it is to completely avoid adult content online. It certainly has had a negative affect on my mental health. I also find it ridiculous how services like PornHub and OnlyFans are featuring a lot of videos which clearly fetishizes borderline (okay, obvious) pedophilia, and, since its profitable, only pull it down when they mig…

The fact that there is even a viable market for OnlyFans type content was such a disheartening thing to learn.
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