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Originally Posted by Marsh.
People have used sex as a business exchange since the dawn of man.
It's no excuse for abuse and rape.
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Yes, transactional sex happens in every industry. However, the Hollywood machine is oiled by sex. Whether it's in the movies or the business practices. It's not right for those young women or men who are abused, no excuse. I agree, that's why, imo, American culture should distance itself from Hollywood until it is significantly curtailed...the transactional sex will not stop on it's own as long as there is greed so the push back has to be external from those of us watching/buying the movies. Situations like the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes going unnoticed for so long were the camel that broke the back for some and just makes people all the more uncomfortable and disgusted by it. Not at all surprising given the culture and pushing of sex and sexual display
as currency in that industry... but because we've been fooled by the "sexual empowerment"/"sexual liberation" cultural message, many people have bought into it without fully realizing the hypocrisy of the messengers they were supposedly supporting.
How can they also have drug fueled sex parties with top names where young boys are passed around as meat underneath the noses of pretty much everyone who has "bought in" to the industry. This is deemed acceptable, because for some people, this is "the price you pay", but it is not morally correct. And unfortunately, the same women who claim to be feminists are actually enablers often times (who also sometimes engage in consensual sex) because they practice the sex culture as a lifestyle, i.e. the ironic virtues of "sexual freedom" "sexual empowerment", etc... when in certain spaces all that does is enable an atmosphere with no real boundaries and contains no barriers to a system of abuse... that is immoral... chastity and decent behavior is discouraged and insecurities and vulnerabilities are instead exploited... because as they say, sex sells. None of it is right, and the people who enable it who are aware of the open secrets are not much better than the people who commit sexual assault themselves... they aided in this going unnoticed, hence all the women going on TV and apologizing despite knowing Harvey Weinstein was
likely a predator (edit) and even when they knew it actually...