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I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn't surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb "roleplaying", knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it's real or not.
Personally I don't get it, but whatever.
Yes but AI is taking jobs away from real live sex workers. Won't anyone think about them.
AI still can't replace hookers.
https://loops.video/v/gMKlrvhFDv
...said the self-proclaimed "not-a-robot" named Roomba
Lol
My alias predates roomba on other platforms.
"Why should I change, he's the one that sucks."
Well, lol. Theoretically with VR headsets and cyberdildonics like automatic fleshlights / masturbators it could come pretty close with the current technology. The kind of looks and environment and dirty talk you want. Obviously it would still be limited.
So AI generated VR porn with cyberdildonics actually could make much of sex work redundant. Theoretically this is a good thing. No human should have to do sex work or porn or onlyfans just for money to survive, if they don't genuinely enjoy doing it. (EDIT)
China already regulated this so that AI chat bots must not create addiction. It's probably a wise course to follow lol.
I doubt that the technology is there. Or, if it is, it's prohibitively expensive.
You honestly don't believe that there are sex workers who are relying on their job for a paycheck? Why?
No human should have to do sex work ...
Do you feel this way about other kinds of work?
Yes, promotional mascots. Also maybe portable toilet cleaners. Roadkill collector? Crime scene cleaners? Broadcaster definitely. Restroom attendant also.
But seriously, do you think this is a controversial view? Do you think parents want (EDIT: their adult) children or friends to have to do sex work? Would anybody go "oh wow I'm so proud of you"? I do not think so. So lowering the demand and therefor supply pressure is overall a societal good.
I don't care whether it's controversial or not.
Obviously that work isn't appropriate for children.
If a friend had to do sex work to make ends meet, I wouldn't judge them harshly, though. It's their body.
I'm not talking about human trafficking. If somebody's being forced to do any kind of work, that's slavery, and it's wrong. I'm talking about somebody choosing to do the work voluntarily.
Most of the jobs I've had did not make anybody go "Oh, wow, I'm so proud of you", but I did them anyway, because I needed the money. Most people don't have a problem with this and they just accept it as part of life. The only time when people get weird about it is when sex is involved, and that's due to puritanical ideas.
Apparently what I'm writing here is very easy to misunderstand. Obviously what I meant is what parents wish for their children - and it's not sex work to pay the bills.
It is fundamental human nature and psychology to see sex and sex work as something not mundane. It carries special consequences and emotions and meaning. This has nothing to do with culture or religion and I very much doubt it can be changed through culture. Nor should it it be changed because of some "principle" you think is more important. It's baked into us through millions of years of evolution and sexual selection. You could even call it one of the fundamental forces of life. A social forces that shaped every part of our culture, stories, politics.
I'm all for decriminalizing sex work and respecting people, but most sex workers would prefer to work in other fields if it wasn't so profitable or they weren't so desperate. Money is power and if you pay someone to do something it can be a form of coercion.
Personally I see being able to generate pornography and eventually replace sex work through artificial means as a fundamental advance in humanity's ethical evolution. Similar to artificial meat and an end to slaughtering animals to eat them. A base desire that we can replace through technological means.
Let me see if I understand you correctly. You believe that our views on sex work are the result of evolutionary biology. They are not influenced by culture or religion. Correct?
Given that, every civilization's views on sex work should be very similar?
(Also, are you talking only about prostitution? Or all types of sex work? Or only certain types?)
No
This but unironically.
ok now this makes me feel bad about my ai use