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To be fair, I do think radical feminist arguments re: prostitution are slightly more legitimate because I do get annoyed at hearing some tiny minority of women who chose to become professional dommes or whatever used to argue that sex work can be "empowering," when the vast majority of prostitutes worldwide were either illegally trafficked or forced into it out of economic necessity, and most can't demand anything of their clients re: using protection and stuff like that. But I still disagree with them that prostitution being illegal is the solution to all that. I think making it legal and regulated would allow prostitutes to have more power to enforce certain things on their clients, and to report abuse at the hands of clients or pimps.
The problem is they try to apply those same arguments to porn, and it doesn't work at all. Porn is a legal, regulated industry with its own strict standards about who can get into it. People who sign up to appear in that porn are consenting adults. Of course, there's a lot of amateur stuff on the Internet where there might be more questionable ideas about consent, but then, why not just regulate that particular kind of porn for violating other laws against sex trafficking or rape, rather than try to ban the whole industry?
Well I'm specifically talking within feminism, where it's the subset of feminism that came around in the 1990s and is probably most common today, that believes that sexual freedom is essential to women's equality. In terms of individual ideals it means you don't think things like porn or prostitution etc. are inherently anti-feminist, or you don't think banning them is the solution. And it means that you are pro-transgender, usually.
Basically it just means that you reject radical feminist ideas about sex. Here's the Wikipedia article if it makes things less confusing.
The problem is they try to apply those same arguments to porn, and it doesn't work at all. Porn is a legal, regulated industry with its own strict standards about who can get into it. People who sign up to appear in that porn are consenting adults. Of course, there's a lot of amateur stuff on the Internet where there might be more questionable ideas about consent, but then, why not just regulate that particular kind of porn for violating other laws against sex trafficking or rape, rather than try to ban the whole industry?
I'm not an expert on feminism so I can't really comment.
I'm not even sure what "sex positive" means. From context I think it means you are okay with having sex, but it could also mean you're okay with transgender individuals, or you are biologically female.
Well I'm specifically talking within feminism, where it's the subset of feminism that came around in the 1990s and is probably most common today, that believes that sexual freedom is essential to women's equality. In terms of individual ideals it means you don't think things like porn or prostitution etc. are inherently anti-feminist, or you don't think banning them is the solution. And it means that you are pro-transgender, usually.
Basically it just means that you reject radical feminist ideas about sex. Here's the Wikipedia article if it makes things less confusing.