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
