By that logic, consumption of just about anything is unethical. How many people do their job because they want to? Most every job in this system is done because people need the money. Everyone is exploited.
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Yes, but porn is especially exploitative. Nobody's dream job is to expose their bodies for middle-aged men to gawk at and objectify. There's a huge difference between being a cashier and doing something that has a huge potential to traumatise and ruin you. Neither is ethical, but one is objectively way scarier than the other.
Edit: I'll take the downvotes, but it is a line of work that often ends in trauma. I'd take rude customers over traumatic flashbacks, even if I also agree that both are bad.
Your own statement is untrue, who are you to say that nobody has that dream? There's plenty more serious arguments for your ideal than this.
Even when it is their dream, it often ends in trauma. Many people in the sex work industry have repeatedly stated how dangerous this line of work is. Support the workers, not the industry. Sex workers will typically not encourage anyone else to be a sex worker for a reason.
So i guess cashiers never suffer ptsd after being robbed at gun point.
Not every country has a huge gun issue, so that didn't even pop into my mind. You're grasping at straws to avoid the fact that a large portion of sex workers experience literal violence. Not to mention, mass shootings are considered rather uncommon in most first-world countries. Intimate violence against sex workers, however? That's an expected part of the job.
Porn is, and always has been, an exploitative medium.
That being said, in the 90s it allowed me to make an entire year's worth of money in one (unpleasant) day. That allowed me to afford my own car, so I could get a legit day job, and the other stuff I was doing became a what would now be called a side-gig where I had the option to say no.
I was very very lucky.
So that makes every industry unethical. You think people are running toll booths or doing janitorial jobs for fun?
Do you get traumatic flashbacks from being a janitor? Typically not.
Clearly you've never been a janitor.
No, but I have been sexually abused to the point where I quite literally am too traumatised to work at a job. I'd take sore joints and cleaning shit off of the walls over the things I've actually experienced.