Porn Star Nikki Benz Sues MindGeek, Brazzers, Co-Stars for Sexual Battery & Gender Violence

[msgrottesca]

Porn actor Nikki Benz sues MindGeek, Brazzers, co-stars for sexual battery, gender violence https://t.co/MugSMNWjjp pic.twitter.com/eYve5mzH0i
- Jezebel (@Jezebel) April 11, 2018

Comments

[space_poodle]

While it is a choice women can make, it is a fact that women who exchange sex for money are inherently being coerced by money, or else they would not be having sex with the client. Coercion cannot be applied to contexts of non-sexual careers however, because while I would not be flying out to Florida to attend a business meeting this week unless it was because my salary requires I do my work, this is not conflicting with my autonomy or objectively speaking to my decision to let someone else use my physical being as an object because they are offering me money or goods for it.

Now if a woman finds sheer money and wealth to be of a higher value than her autonomy as a human being and not a commodity or an object that is available to the person with the right amount in his wallet, that is her prerogative. This is not a prerogative I am remotely required to respect or admire however, as a feminist and as a person, and I think she's participating in something detrimental to women everywhere, and making a mockery of those who are trafficked, groomed, or put in such dire positions that prostitution is their only means of survival. They deserve to be safe at work, but I do not respect their work.

[space_poodle]

You make very good points bb, thank you for a well thought-out reply that helps me see things a little differently :)

[msgrottesca]

most importantly being pressured or having to say, scrub floors, to survive is different from having to do sex work to survive because sex that is not freely chosen is rape and heinous, coerced idk, photocopying is not.

omg this is one of my biggest pet peeves when I get into discourse with extremely pro-sex work feminists, when they pull the "well how is that any different from working at McDonald's?" line and think they've like, blown my fucking mind lmaooo. for one, I have a fairly Marxist view on the entire concept of work as we know it so that appeal doesn't work on me. for two, no, they're not the same, at all, in any way.

it is not to disparage women in sex work to admit that the nature of their work is very different from otherwise ordinary jobs, it's just stating a fact! it's not an insult to sex workers at all to admit it's very much it's own thing. it is no coincidence that the overwhelming majority of ex-sex workers have symptoms of or become diagnosed with PTSD. while my time working in the service industry did wreak havok on my feet and my patience, it did not cause my PTSD - unwanted sex did that. period.