Sethis "What is it about porn as an industry that makes it such a magnet for ... 'criticism?"
If women are performing ethically the end result may still be young men thinking their young female partners should enjoy any kind of sex since the women they see in porn might appear to 'love' being throttled, penetrated anally, called a whore or whatever else might be happening in porn.
"Not only that, but why do we label the end user of porn as a "creep" or "disgusting" for accessing the material, yet we don't label people wearing GAP clothing as "slavers" or "colonialists"?"
Not sure u labelled anyone buy I do think it is creepy.
None of this means wearing clothes that are unethically produced are ok.
So are you campaigning for ethical clothing, or just debating ethical porn?
"But that's a moral double standard, isn't it? You're asking me to treat you as being a better person than another person, based on your sexual preferences."
At what point did I ask you to treat me in any way at all? I think people who use porn are considerably less ethical than people who do use porn. You don't agree! Surprise, surprise!
"Yet when someone else says that another person is better than you based on their sexual preference, you claim they're being unfair." I genuinely don't know what this refers to.
Sethis "A, B and C. Now you know that is not porn. If A, B and C are doing this in their own home and it's all consensual and C doesn't get the idea all womem are sluts or up for it. It's there own business.
To me it's still sad. Sad that A and B can 't enjoy sex without being watched and sad C doesn't have a partner to share life and sex with (and if C does, what are they doing while this goes on?)
But anyway it's not real, it's another hypotheroxal scenario unrelated to real life.
"If A and B then also decide, of their own free will, through mutual consent, to sell a video of their session with C..." oh do stop, it's tedious in the extreme.
"I'm aware that the above example is not indicative of the porn industry as a whole. " Thank God for that.
Porn is harmful as of itself, however it is made, it blights people's lives and spoils their sex lives with unrealistic and even dangerous potential obsessions. Did you even bother to read the link I posted?
Clothes, food, etc can be produced ethically or not. But however it is produced I believe vicariously spying on others' sex lives is unhealthy.
It's that simple for me. I may well be in the minority. I don't give a flying fuck!
Anyway, I will stop thinking the OP's thread! Why don't you start a thread on porn Sethis and we can talk some more.