I mean exploitation I'm general. How much do you accept in your supply chains?
Where I have learned about it, I try to eliminate it where possible.
But equally it is very bizarre to suggest that it’s not worth it to be morally opposed to pornography if you haven’t eliminated every form of exploitation from our lives. Or to use it as an “ah ha, gotcha moment!”
We can learn and make changes everywhere.
If you are aware it exists and you don’t at least try to educate yourself further and try to eliminate it from your life than you (not you personally, a more nebulous “you”) are a part of the problem.
I used to consume porn (despite being trafficked as a child) but I learned more about it and stopped. It is abhorrent.
I’ve had a couple tell me I’m wrong to be against human trafficking and rape in porn because I own an iPhone (I specially need an iPhone for work and my phones are only ever purchased second hand deliberately).
This isn’t about which form of exploitation is better, worse or further up some kind of pile of oppression.
This is about the fact that you are viewing a human in distress for your own pleasure. Watching the abuse happen.
To do that and then say something along the lines of “well if it is abuse, there are other forms of abuse occurring and those opposed to porn also consume other forms of exploitation and abuse” is next level fuckery and whataboutery.
As you watch that penis enter her body, as you watch his hands pull her hair, as you watch him move his penis from her anus to her vagina, think long and hard about the likelihood of her being a willing participant. As you reach your peak, think about her internal injuries, think about the torture she has been through.
You are seeing these images, you are paying to fund it via advertising.
The videos featuring me still pop up online, I did not want to be there, I did not ask for people to look at my body, at my bleeding arse, at the fingers shoved in my mouth, at the “romantic” kissing.
What’s if the next video you click on features me being raped?