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 ====== Women in the Industry ======
-Pornography has become a very large and competitive industry with a business model that essentially asks actors to sell away their identity and dignity for objectification and money. The most vulnerable group here are women, who almost always get mistreated and also can end up financially abused but also sexually assaulted. In many countries, while the end product (ie. the videos) is readily policed, the creation of pornography is a topic the government prefers not to talk about, so enforcement of the law in this industry is particularly weak (if laws exist at all).\\
+Pornography has become a very large and competitive industry with a business model that essentially asks actors to sell away their identity and dignity for objectification and money. One often understated element of this is that the sex work inherently doesn't actually inherently involve the indignification of its workers. It is the way sex workers are treated that makes it indignifying - the most vulnerable group here are women, who almost always get mistreated and also can end up financially abused but also sexually assaulted. In many countries, while the end product (ie. the videos) is readily policed, the //creation// of the video is a topic the government prefers not to talk about, so enforcement of the law in this industry is particularly weak (if laws exist at all).\\
 Because of this lack of governmental enthusiasm to govern the industry, pornography also has problems with some of the more severe human rights situations. Human trafficking, if not for slave labor, tends to attract slave sexual labor, with individuals (and by that I mean almost exclusively women) being stripped of their passports and sometimes even physically being held captive and forced to appear before a camera performing sexual acts, whether they want to or not.
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 Personally, I am in favor of sex work being legal and workers getting the same legal protections as everyone else. While I would personally find sex work to be too degrading and would rather go homeless, I can understand why someone else wouldn't do it as I. Is sex work inherently degrading? Eh. Is it used to degrade women? Definitely. Sure, the sex itself isn't the degrading part here, but if you are in the line of sex work and are getting degraded on the base of sexism then the two will be rather difficult to seperate, no? While, sure, sex on its own isn't what degrades, the lived reality for many women is that the sex in their work comes with sexism attached, whether they want it or not.
-But, and I think that's the main point of sex-positivists, is that sex and sexism might often come together, but they are not //literally// inseperable. With reform and a shift in culture it is absolutely possible to give women every dignity to work in that field without constantly being stepped on. It is absolutely possible, and we should work in that direction as best as we can.
+But - and I think that's the main point of sex-positivists - while sex and sexism might often come together, they are not //literally// inseperable. With reform and a shift in culture it is absolutely possible to give women every dignity to work in that field without constantly being stepped on. It is absolutely possible, and we should work in that direction as best as we can.