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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Again, you're overlooking a massive gulf between "banning and controlling" and "legitimising as a career choice". It's not just about direct harm to the individuals involved, the very core of the message - that naked bodies (especially young, especially female naked bodies) are a legitimate consumer product is harmful on a much wider level and shouldn't be normalised. Turning it into " a job like any other" - as many would see happen - is absolutely normalisation and that normalisation takes root very quickly in upcoming generations.
At no point have I said it should be made illegal or that body autonomy should be controlled, and pointing out the issues in normalising something and "making it mainstream" is not that.
To give a comparative example; casual low-level alcoholism and binge drinking is heavily normalised in the UK (and elsewhere) to the extent that regularly getting blind drunk is seen not only as "totally normal" but in fact as "a right of passage". That mindset is pretty much set in stone in this country at this point. It causes huge problems. Does that mean I think alcohol should be banned? Or that getting blind drunk should be illegal? No, but I'm also not going to sit here and pretend that drinking daily or throwing back 15 cans every Saturday "normal" or healthy life choice either.
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
The entire culture is toxic and the whole concept should be banned.
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We have areas of complete agreement, but again, all I would ask is that you try and provide a way that this work/platform/add your own descriptor, that pretty much everyone is aware of, can now be delegitimised to young, impressionable, underage people, planning their legal age career moves?
It can't, so this is where we are. Not hypothetically, or for better or worse, but in absolute reality. The only way I can possibly think of would be some kind of minimum age requirement; but this is actually where my socialism kicks in, with the recognition that there is no way capitalism would allow that.