if you don't want porn to be considered art/entertainment that should be readily available for adults, your leftism is sus

@wizardneedsfood I feel like it is mostly dead now, but there was some very reactionary "leftism" around 2013-2016, I feel like Gamer Gate drove everyone a bit insane, and since chuds liked pervy games a lot of people decided porn was "right wing" or something. Bleh. Failure all around.

@TheZeldaZone yeah, i totally see that! it's much calmer now, but i still see elements of it showing up in weird puritanical leftist spaces. but def, a big L, for sure

@wizardneedsfood @TheZeldaZone y'all say that, but i frequently see people violently explode when they see "unacceptable" kinks and the such, and absolutely disregarding porn as an artistic medium if it touches anything taboo

ask me how i know as a CSA survivor who expresses my trauma through porn -.-

so, if anything, supposed leftists have just shifted all of these backwards ass views onto "acceptable" targets. and they're all over the fucking place on fedi.

@EeveeEuphoria It is frustrating. Not entirely related, but I had to leave Bluesky roleplay because accounts seem to come in almost exactly two flavors:

Callout-posting vanilla SFW-only accounts with entire bios full of "no taboo"

"Tabboo" accounts that seem to exclusively have the most extreme possible everytihng all at once.

..."taboo" is not a meaningful word to apply to kinks. It wouldn't be a kink if it weren't at least a little taboo. Just list kinks/limits, please.

@EeveeEuphoria I have also seen "no illegal kinks". I am pretty sure both of these arise from people not wanting to explicitly mention ageplay/rapelay/lolicon/whatever, but "Illegal" is like the worst term to use.

As a lesbian trans woman, most of my existence has been or is illegal in most countries and time periods.

IDK if it is the algorithm or what but I just cannot deal with bluesky RP as it is and masto RP seems too decentralized to function. Can't find nobody.

@TheZeldaZone yeah!!!! i fucking hate the connotations people associate with "illegal" kinks, like jfc

people moralize kinks so damn much, and again it's why i'm of the belief most leftists still have shit takes about porn, they just find "acceptable" targets. and what's more acceptable of a target than the dreaded evil lolicon?

@TheZeldaZone i mean fuck, sometime last week, some leftist youtuber put out another smear campaign against patricia taxxon over her kinks, and i'm still angry people fall for this bullshit

@EeveeEuphoria @TheZeldaZone @wizardneedsfood the only person i've seen improve after falling into that reactionarism from the 2010s is myself, and only after breaking with the church i'd joined around that same time after looking at what happened in 2022 and finally waking up to the gravity of what i had been doing my part to enable all that time

@apophis @TheZeldaZone @wizardneedsfood well, i used to be on the puritanical side myself, it took someone else educating me about this stuff to make me realize i was in the wrong.

@apophis @TheZeldaZone @wizardneedsfood there's an alternate timeline where i fell towards the alt-right, because my family is very conservative >.>

@apophis I think there are a few of those but not very publically.

A big feature of the alt-right is never apologizing or admitting being wrong (so, sociopathy). Or changing in any way.

I cannot say I have seen many converts personally, but any form of alt right is an instant block, and I do not pry into people's pasts so I do not think I would know.