if u accept the idea that the porn industry is toxic bc of how they treat the actors then hentai is basically veganism for porn
Now see, this makes for a very interesting screening question.
Is someone actually arguing due to the treatment of women in the porn industry, or are they arguing to reduce sexual alternatives to straight women for straight men, relatively increasing straight womens’ sexual power/negotiating leverage? Or, are they arguing for women (or rather their faction) collectively owning the cultural intellectual property of the idea “women”?
Etc.
See, um, there’s one other reason that you guys are kinda missing, I think, and it’s the idea that porn isn’t actually bad in and of itself, but that virtually all porn is bad because it teaches bad, um, morals? And you can, like, say that these morals are, um, inherent to the pornographic medium or just, like, products of our, uh, patriarchal society, but, like, people are definitely anti-porn on the assumption that they’re there.
Obviously, the solution is to mandate multiple age grades for pornography starting with simple nudity and progressing through “sex within the context of a healthy relationship between two consenting adults,” before getting on to the weirder and more extreme stuff, thus setting up sensible expectations for future relationships, like alcohol laws in Europe.
This isn’t a shitpost, by the way. Depending on the country and its legal and political environment, I think this could potentially be a good policy.
(Edit: Also, to a degree this “bad morals” explanation falls under “ownership of [the idea of women] as intellectual property.”)
How do you keep kids from getting into the real bad stuff, though? I mean, porn’s digital. Are you going to have, like, DRM on porn?
It depends on the country and its legal environment.
The country I originally developed this idea for was a hypothetical one which had a more cryptographically-rooted internet, where each citizen was issued multiple pseudonymous identifiers that the government could track back if needed, but which corporations were prohibited from tracking in some of the ways they currently track identity in the United States.
However, the political and technical landscape of the various real countries is much different.
In this case, while we already have mechanisms that somewhat limit the sale of pornography by age, especially in physical stores, people can get around that with the Internet if they know the right keywords.
What I’m wondering about is if a limited lifting of some restrictions in combination with the imposition with new ones would create a new market. The sheer amount of, uh, let’s call it sexual energy present in humanity is what drives the demand that creates oceans of pornography. Like, Rule 34 exists not because of some 4Chan cult but because of the demand plus available infrastructure. Trying to end it all because it ‘teaches bad morals’ is practically impossible short of the introduction of a far more totalitarian state.
So instead of abolishing it, channel some of that energy and adjust the ease of access such that rates of exposure to healthy vs unhealthy versions, especially at key times, shift.
Contextualize sex.
