[user104658]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I put forward decent common sense suggestions for ways to address the issues you've raised, such as background checks (to prevent trafficking), and unionization based around protection, support, and MH.

Which, unless we're going to not only allow, but promote full control over the body autonomy of adults, is the only sensible way to address the issue, and all the pretending you're the only person in this discussion to care, won't change that as a fundamental fact.

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.