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saw a video this morning that was along the lines of "folks arent ready to talk about how they can only read smut now is cause they grew up on ao3" and i have several feelings about this

a) written porn did not come into existence with ao3 or the internet, youve been able to buy it for decades in the walmart book section up by the registers. its one of the most prolific genres of books that exist. your straight mom has read some, i guarantee you. hell, ever seen her reading an adult fantasy novel, adult as in it is not written for 'young adults' aka kids? it had descriptive sex in it. fanfictions are just pared down versions of that where they dont have to give you any character or world setting context because you already have all that from whatever property it is. really creates a lot less filler to a story when you already know everything thats going on.

b) why are we all jumping into this indulging of sexuality in any capacity is bad? the religious freaks should not be listened to. especially being pushed hard on queer folks and no, no there is no way to sanitize your behavior that will help you escape queerphobia.

c) yeah its actually pretty normal to be horny in your 20s. that is kinda standard. it is very normal to get some alone time and be like wow wanna get off now, that isn't "degeneracy" or you being a bad person. very fucking weird to act like being horny when one is young is something that developed because one looked at porn. you looked at porn because you were horny.

d) this modesty culture shit that is trending right now is coming out of the religious backlash against progressive egalitarianism (and especially against anything further to the left) and is not something we should be accepting. this is a hegemonic push that will easily pull in moderate trend followers into a naturally patriarchal, theocratic leaning view of life. there have always been women who do not enjoy more sexualized or revealing fashion trends who dont need to dip into fundie evangelical culture to do so. the evangelicals are literally our enemy, their religious demands that they force it on everyone else and that they enforce it through violence.


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e) this is not a new kind of propaganda, or even a recent push. it's a mainstay of fascism. the current wave goes back to slightly before the founding of 4chan (where it really took off) and represents active effort by (self-described) neo-nazis. then it caught extra wind on the left in the last decade after some tenacious second-wave terfs (not self-described) started using similar propaganda techniques on tumblr, with a pseudo-progressive varnish. the two resonate and dovetail with each other, each makes the other seem natural, and if you're young and have lived with these influences all your life it may all seem natural and inevitable but as someone who remembers the 80s and 90s, I assure you it is not, even for all the other bullshit those decades carried. pointedly: I didn't hear the word "degenerate" used in reference to a human being until the mid-00s; it's no coincidence that the last time that usage was so prominent was the Third Reich.

what people also dont grasp is- its a double standard

fascists are the most unbelievably fucked up, gratuitous vulgar people- its all projection. what they want is to be able to do it, as a special privilege, to anyone THEY want to do it to- they view it as defiling or profane because it's consentual and done for mutual joy instead of as an act of domination and humiliation. it is control, it is power- it is an obsession with imperialism over the bodies of others they deem lesser.

modesty is dogshit and normies are such easy picking for it. the reason they want a patriarchal society is so they can go wife shopping in any fucked up context they deem 'fun' to them like their workplaces, the grocery store- women as property (and women, as a category, really just meaning anything they dont consider equal / male to them)

its just violence all the way down. that's really the bottom line of why you can't let the reactionaries have an inch, because eventually they hatch into fascists and do this. perpetually driven by fear and hostile impulse- every day, every moment treated like a war.

they will say its about "standards" - yeah they want standards so they can violate them and then laugh at you when you adhere to them, often times you are made to by force. they want to mock their enemies because it's a projection of their own resentment of themselves.

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

— Francis M. Wilholt

That and recent teen internet culture devolving to the level of 'if a 17-year-old sees an adult independently hornyposting they'll get traumatized, and that's the adult's fault,' is really concerning. Conservatives' performative refusal to acknowledge the existence of teen sexuality has leeched into the general population of queer teens, and it's sad to see them so afraid of themselves and others.