What Does Stage Green Think About Sex Work?

[Rilles]

kinda puzzles me

 

for it: women should express their sexuality, shouldnt be put in legal trouble for being prostitutes, nudity is not shameful, etc 

against it: women get exploited in the industry and are seen as mere objects, pornography should be illegal etc

 

which one is it more leaning towards? whats more conscious? 

[Spiral]

Prostitution is simple, make it legal to sell sex but illegal to buy. Porn is trickier.

[Identity]

Stage green is not “one thing” as simple as this.

Rather it is a broad spectrum of mental constructions that share similar values and a similar mental construct that helps them to cope with certain survival demands.

if you would put out a questionnaire with this question to 100 people clasified as “stage green” (which would be a very narrow assessment of a person), you would likely get a percentage of people going for option 1 and a percentage for option 2.

[Roy]

@Rilles Well first of all, regardless of what people think about porn and the sex industry. They aren't going away. They've been apart of human behavior for thousands of years, aren't leaving anytime soon.

Stage blue hates these things and tries to repress and deny them, but will never succeed obviously.

Stage green is definitely more aware of the fact they won't go away and is trying to legitimize and reform the porn and sex industry to be more progressive and safer for the women involved. My girlfriend is a solid stage green feminist and her attitude towards it is pretty much this, and she says her colleagues and the general attitude in the community is the same as well. They are trying to balance the power in a heavily male controlled sector.

What they react to and are against is the stage red and orange aspects that currently dominate these two industries. It doesn't take a genius to realize the overwhelming male bias that runs rampant through porn and the sex market. It is completely commonplace for most porn to just be depictions of men selfishly getting what they want and using women for pleasure (as objects). That is the trope for most genres. Of course there are exceptions, but they aren't the rule.

Not to mention the disregard and lack of any lip service towards a healthy view of consent, currently it just serves as a disclaimer so people don't go to jail. It doesn't take much looking to uncover all the heinous, sexist, disrespectful, and illegal things that happen to women in these industries. Rape, violence, coercion, bribery, black-mail, human sex trafficking. It's not pretty what goes on and a lot of it isn't talked about because many of these girls and women simply can't speak up about it. Their livelihoods and survival depend on it. You have to think rationally and realize a lot of them aren't doing it as their first choice in life. They feel it was the only path they had to take for one reason or another, or worse yet they felt/were forced into it. I'm sure some of them enjoy their jobs but it's not exactly empowering or prideful to be degraded for a living.

Of course this will start to change and improve in the future;

Eventually we will reach a new "Stage Green" development in porn and prostitution where women are depicted more favorably and have more rights. It will be more commonplace and popular for porn to show a more balanced depiction of pleasure for both sides where consent has a larger context and it isn't just a male fantasy of blowing his load all over some girls face every video.

You could say porn will become more conscious and inclusive.

Edited April 12, 2020 by Roy