About Mastercard/Patreon/Gumroad cracking down on FULLY LEGAL ADULT ARTWORK is: fucking nobody benefits. Mastercard loses money. Patreon loses money. Gumroad loses money. Artists lose money. No ethereal, enigmatic concept of "child" or "trafficking victim" is helped. It's fucking drawings. It's a horseshit performance of Christian Ego that serves NO ONE
It's about the libidinal economy, babey! Which sounds like something that would go along with buying horny pictures, but in this case it's the opposite. The emotional benefit of making other people suffer is something that some people will gladly exchange money for. The choice of sex workers as designated target of suffering is not a matter of random scapegoating, but more about the demand that sex workers be eternally present while also eternally disavowed.
Someone benefits. Just not directly and financially. It would be extremely easy to simply profit from the sale of horny goods and services. The fact that that's not happening should tell you that someone benefits very, very much from the way it is.
"The emotional benefit of making other people suffer" feels like the dark matter equivalent of a lot of detrimental human behavior
whoever derives "emotional benefit" from making other real people suffer should, you know, maybe learn what an "empathy" is???
i feel like we force people to be a sort of modern version of sin eaters, absorbing all of the excess "bad" emotions that we have and then shunning them for it. the logic, to me, is that sex workers must be around and punished because people need a visible and real person to punish for the imagined sin of being horny.
"logic" of course being a weak word for the phenomenon, this is a purely emotional gambit based on making other people suffer for the things one feels guilty for. i think it's maybe a twisted version of empathy where these bastards project their own emotions onto an "other" and then punish them for having them in the first place
also could just be regular old fascism where the system needs victims who are simultaneously "weak" and "threatening" to be visibly punished and reinforce norms.
