Capitalism is economic coercion and needs to be abolished. I agree to that. However, there are different types of coercion that need to be recognized, and they have different magnitudes of effect. The coercion of capitalism is a subtle one that, albeit harmful, is not as violent as coercion as society generally views it, which is the imposition of a threat of direct bodily harm to you or those you care about. This is a type of coercion that is unacceptable in all circumstances. As we live in a capitalist society however, trying to abstain from economic activity entirely to avoid coercion is simply unworkable. To reject it is to give in to it and suffer from it yourself. If we are to recognize that all capitalist businesses are violent, then we must recognize that it is the least violent businesses that are most acceptable. This would be a business run by the people working there. In other words we would be operating on a socialist model within a capitalist economy. This isn't victimization, it's fighting the system in the only way that doesn't make us victims of it. Yes, porn and prostitution both often involve sex for money, though they also are both more harmful by their illegality than their legality. In our case, we aren't people that are being forced by our economic burden to have sex for money. We all like sex, a lot of us play with each other already, and several of us enjoy being watched, so we concluded "Why the hell don't we film this and get some extra money?"Solaas wrote:Threlizdun wrote:Huh, here I was thinking that when a couple of my friends and I expressed interest in filming videos and starting a porn site, we were just talking about having some fun and getting paid for it. I didn't realize that we were all oppressing each other. Silly me believing that some people can actually want to get paid to act out sexual fantasies on camera.
At certain extent, that could be still viewed as a form of economical coercion enforced by the society on you and your friends: you need to turn sex in money.
But, obiousvly, that isn't coercion by you on your friends or viceversa.
Still, the example clearly shows the strong ties between pornography and prostitution: people who would buy such movies would be purchasers of sex acts recorded for the mere purpose of making money, not exactly like a purchaser of women's bodies like in prostitution, but still worrying.
I see "Anarchist" in your signature, and frankly I find it quite weird, given the fact you're just admitting to wondering about starting a little porn industry.
