Its not so much whether sex work is or isn’t immoral, or unethical, I’d consider that a separate discussion, but rather how that practice relates to children and their education and development. Something can be ok for adults to learn about or engage in but not for children.
As an example, its usually seen as not a good thing for children to learn about being a soldier (even if it happens in practice), despite it being a very good way of making soldiers, to teach them young. But the resulting harm to those children and society makes it generally outlawed, and certainly against public opinion. This is seperate and distinct from an argument about whether its good or bad, right or wrong for an adult to learn about being a soldier. The same applies to drug use - you need to be wiser and better educated than a child to engage with it, because of the risks and harms involved.
edit; to further clarify, with the soldier analogy, you might be ok with it being taught in a structured and carefully thought out way, but not for children to be watching war footage, if you see what I mean.
The soldier analogy maybe would make sense if kids’ books weren’t chock full of stories of soldiers in wars. If kids’ movies weren’t mostly based on plots of violence involving people fighting in wars. If kids didn’t “play army” consistently. If kids were never exposed to veterans through school assemblies. If military recruiters weren’t given full access to schools. But unfortunately, all of these things happen, I experienced them when I was in school.
It’s foolish to think war and soldiers aren’t heavily, heavily romanticized in our society, and much of that romanticization is directly aimed at children. I do think this is getting less bad over time, luckily. I know the military is having a difficult time recruiting enough people, so that’s good.
But fundamentally, I think sex is cool and good while war is lame and bad, so I would have zero issue with an onlyfans model teaching children and I would not want a veteran or national guard reservist teaching children.
I used the analogy because of how people (parents especially) feel about war, and because its a thing that carries great risks of harm and exploitation, being a soldier. Of course there are circumstances where a parent, out of desperation usually (sometimes out of greed) - as a matter of survival - would be ok with it. But generally speaking, people who aren’t desperate don’t want their children to be soldiers, they want them to be happy, prosperous, not maimed, not violent and so on, so there has to be a lot of incentive and propaganda around it to convince people - and even then it finds a lot of resistance from people.
I know that soldiers are romanticized, and so is violence, but I don’t think that because that occurs, education of children should be a free for all - gambling is another example, because its something that children (and adults of course, but that’s a different though related issue) are vulnerable to taking a bad lesson from exposure to, that can lead to harmful consequences for them and others.
Sex is cool, but it can also be harmful, in and of itself or as an aspect of a relationship with others. War is similar - if a soldier is defending out of necessity their people from violence or theft, that’s cool, but there is a lot of scope for it not being cool. Things like this, that have a great potential for harm and risk of harm, for individuals and communities, need to be treated very carefully and cautiously when it comes to children (and really, adults of course, but especially children). Despite sex being (usually) cool, its not I don’t think an issue to request that teachers of children, as role models and authority figures, should not be pornographers - just as they should not be soldiers.
I still think you’re putting sex and war at the same general level of harm and I simply disagree with that moral ranking. Sex is almost always positive, war is almost always negative. These are not the same.
I’m sorry, but this is an absurd statement. Sex between consenting adults without coercion, in which neither party is violating an existing relationships boundaries is generally neutral to positive but that is a ton of qualifiers.
Yeah, sure, you’re right of course. Sex can be super damaging in certain contexts. I do still think that fundamentally sex is a beautiful, wonderful part of the human experience while war is an occasional unpleasant necessity that it would really be better to do without if at all possible. They seem fundamentally different to me, and I’d like a world with more (and better) sex and less war. But you’re right, sex with no qualifiers isn’t “almost always” good. That’s a very good point.
Right, and sex work often ends up being one of the situations where people get abused right? Like if someone is making money on onlyfans, more power to them, but much of the sex work being performed in the world is being done by desperate people who’d rather not do it?
Yeah, that’s true. That’s part of why in every reply I’ve made in this thread I’ve specifically been sure to say “onlyfans model” and not sex worker more broadly. Because there is a ton of exploitation in porn. I don’t know, I’m just grumpy that sex is treated as this terrible, dirty thing that must be hidden at all costs and never talked about. It’s one of my main issues with the puritanical society we live in, it’s damn near impossible to have good conversations about sex, or treat it as something that can (and should be) positive.
Anyway, I’m about to and , so I likely won’t be responding. I hope you have a great day! (And I always love seeing you around, with your good takes and your Venture Bros references!)
I don’t feel good about it at all, and I think it should be banned! The presence of one bad thing doesn’t make other bad things ok, though.
We are our experiences, our environments, and with children they’re in a stage where learning lots is more important than learning or experiencing critically, and they don’t have much wisdom or experience to be properly judgemental or to contextualise or understand what they see or hear, so we have to treat them differently. Development is also a process over time, so we need to make sure the learning content is appropriate for the age or developmental stage (including social development), and also not all taught at once but rather gradually, depending on their current capacity.
I’m unsure why you’d think its a necessary question to ask, given the comment you’ve responded to, but I hope you’re satisfied with the answer.
could you explain why, I feel that I’ve explained my position in various comments (but I can reiterate if you’d like) and I’d like to know why you think it means my brain is wormy?
Well I disagree with what they’ve said, and I don’t think they’ve explained it at all, rather just accused me of being a puritan or similar. Could you try, in your own words?
I think the claims that have been made by others against me or my position that weren’t simply lazy smears, I’ve already refuted (that what a teacher does publically is no business of the public, and that because military teachers/recruiters are allowed in schools so too should this, that there is any relation to trans people or drag queens to this issue, that teachers being fired for being pornographers means sex work is consequentially immoral). I certainly don’t feel that anyone’s said anything in contradiction that’s caused me to even consider that my stance might be incorrect, but I’m willing to consider a reasonable and good response - I don’t want to have brain worms after all.
Its not so much whether sex work is or isn’t immoral, or unethical, I’d consider that a separate discussion, but rather how that practice relates to children and their education and development. Something can be ok for adults to learn about or engage in but not for children.
As an example, its usually seen as not a good thing for children to learn about being a soldier (even if it happens in practice), despite it being a very good way of making soldiers, to teach them young. But the resulting harm to those children and society makes it generally outlawed, and certainly against public opinion. This is seperate and distinct from an argument about whether its good or bad, right or wrong for an adult to learn about being a soldier. The same applies to drug use - you need to be wiser and better educated than a child to engage with it, because of the risks and harms involved.
edit; to further clarify, with the soldier analogy, you might be ok with it being taught in a structured and carefully thought out way, but not for children to be watching war footage, if you see what I mean.
The soldier analogy maybe would make sense if kids’ books weren’t chock full of stories of soldiers in wars. If kids’ movies weren’t mostly based on plots of violence involving people fighting in wars. If kids didn’t “play army” consistently. If kids were never exposed to veterans through school assemblies. If military recruiters weren’t given full access to schools. But unfortunately, all of these things happen, I experienced them when I was in school.
It’s foolish to think war and soldiers aren’t heavily, heavily romanticized in our society, and much of that romanticization is directly aimed at children. I do think this is getting less bad over time, luckily. I know the military is having a difficult time recruiting enough people, so that’s good.
But fundamentally, I think sex is cool and good while war is lame and bad, so I would have zero issue with an onlyfans model teaching children and I would not want a veteran or national guard reservist teaching children.
I used the analogy because of how people (parents especially) feel about war, and because its a thing that carries great risks of harm and exploitation, being a soldier. Of course there are circumstances where a parent, out of desperation usually (sometimes out of greed) - as a matter of survival - would be ok with it. But generally speaking, people who aren’t desperate don’t want their children to be soldiers, they want them to be happy, prosperous, not maimed, not violent and so on, so there has to be a lot of incentive and propaganda around it to convince people - and even then it finds a lot of resistance from people.
I know that soldiers are romanticized, and so is violence, but I don’t think that because that occurs, education of children should be a free for all - gambling is another example, because its something that children (and adults of course, but that’s a different though related issue) are vulnerable to taking a bad lesson from exposure to, that can lead to harmful consequences for them and others.
Sex is cool, but it can also be harmful, in and of itself or as an aspect of a relationship with others. War is similar - if a soldier is defending out of necessity their people from violence or theft, that’s cool, but there is a lot of scope for it not being cool. Things like this, that have a great potential for harm and risk of harm, for individuals and communities, need to be treated very carefully and cautiously when it comes to children (and really, adults of course, but especially children). Despite sex being (usually) cool, its not I don’t think an issue to request that teachers of children, as role models and authority figures, should not be pornographers - just as they should not be soldiers.
I still think you’re putting sex and war at the same general level of harm and I simply disagree with that moral ranking. Sex is almost always positive, war is almost always negative. These are not the same.
I’m sorry, but this is an absurd statement. Sex between consenting adults without coercion, in which neither party is violating an existing relationships boundaries is generally neutral to positive but that is a ton of qualifiers.
It’s often positive, not almost always.
Yeah, sure, you’re right of course. Sex can be super damaging in certain contexts. I do still think that fundamentally sex is a beautiful, wonderful part of the human experience while war is an occasional unpleasant necessity that it would really be better to do without if at all possible. They seem fundamentally different to me, and I’d like a world with more (and better) sex and less war. But you’re right, sex with no qualifiers isn’t “almost always” good. That’s a very good point.
Right, and sex work often ends up being one of the situations where people get abused right? Like if someone is making money on onlyfans, more power to them, but much of the sex work being performed in the world is being done by desperate people who’d rather not do it?
Yeah, that’s true. That’s part of why in every reply I’ve made in this thread I’ve specifically been sure to say “onlyfans model” and not sex worker more broadly. Because there is a ton of exploitation in porn. I don’t know, I’m just grumpy that sex is treated as this terrible, dirty thing that must be hidden at all costs and never talked about. It’s one of my main issues with the puritanical society we live in, it’s damn near impossible to have good conversations about sex, or treat it as something that can (and should be) positive.
Anyway, I’m about to
and 
, so I likely won’t be responding. I hope you have a great day! (And I always love seeing you around, with your good takes and your Venture Bros references!)
how do you feel about military recruiters in highschools?
how do you feel about traumatized war criminals becoming teachers?
I don’t feel good about it at all, and I think it should be banned! The presence of one bad thing doesn’t make other bad things ok, though.
We are our experiences, our environments, and with children they’re in a stage where learning lots is more important than learning or experiencing critically, and they don’t have much wisdom or experience to be properly judgemental or to contextualise or understand what they see or hear, so we have to treat them differently. Development is also a process over time, so we need to make sure the learning content is appropriate for the age or developmental stage (including social development), and also not all taught at once but rather gradually, depending on their current capacity.
I’m unsure why you’d think its a necessary question to ask, given the comment you’ve responded to, but I hope you’re satisfied with the answer.
just checking how thorough your
are
if
is referring back to teachers with OF accounts then you need some more fumigating
could you explain why, I feel that I’ve explained my position in various comments (but I can reiterate if you’d like) and I’d like to know why you think it means my brain is wormy?
other people have already explained it to you.
the thing you’re worried about is a bullshit moral panic and you fucking need to get over it.
Well I disagree with what they’ve said, and I don’t think they’ve explained it at all, rather just accused me of being a puritan or similar. Could you try, in your own words?
I think the claims that have been made by others against me or my position that weren’t simply lazy smears, I’ve already refuted (that what a teacher does publically is no business of the public, and that because military teachers/recruiters are allowed in schools so too should this, that there is any relation to trans people or drag queens to this issue, that teachers being fired for being pornographers means sex work is consequentially immoral). I certainly don’t feel that anyone’s said anything in contradiction that’s caused me to even consider that my stance might be incorrect, but I’m willing to consider a reasonable and good response - I don’t want to have brain worms after all.
Vietnamese kindergarten children reenacting Vietnamese/American War battle.
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