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how did i, the resident feminazi, miss this thread?
anywho i've over thought this topic far too many times.
sex work is degrading because you are reducing yourself to your genitalia, plasticizing your sexuality, inevidably falling into misogynist traps etc. however most work is degrading because you are selling yourself for a service. certain sex workers have a lot more agency than others. it depends on issues of class/what joints you are working it/if you have a pimp or men you have to rent time from etc.
i've mentioned this before but i went out to dinner with tristan taormino (a very famous feminist pornographer) and a couple of her friends/lovers earlier this year. (yes amerikangod, i do have a picture to prove this.) the two of us share the idea that one of the most feminist actions you can take is to advocate sexual pleasure. there is so much attention to issues of sexual pain/violence that we forget that the vagina can also be associated with mind blowing orgasms. tristan believes that she is changing the world by creating new pornographic images which a)are instructional (check out vivid-ed) and b) in which the actors/actresses have parts in creating their own scenes and are legitimately turned on c)profitable for the sex workers who are involved with the scenes. that's great! it's good to know that there are sex workers out there who actually have okay working situations. still, tristan and other like-minded third wavers get carried away though and forget that for the majority of sex workers around the world are treated like slaves.
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