I respect this take.
I just see this as a slippery slope. Do you buy Nikes? I’m sure you know they exploit child labor. Do you buy t-shirts? Electronics made overseas? I mean, as consumers, whether or not we are responsible for the wrongdoings that went into making the product - not so morally black and white.
Yes, I get that this isn’t a perfect analogy by any means. I just think we are all in pretty deep moral **** if we take this to it’s conclusions. We know we get better prices due to some shady third-world exploitation. Most of us watch porn knowing that many of these women are badly exploited, either by sexy traffickers, pimps, etc. We jerk off to this stuff because it gets us off. We are supporting prostitution and sex traffic in visiting websites whose ads lead to revenue, which lead to the evil but lucrative trade continuing. I don’t think it makes us bad people or morally compromised. Wanting to get a hand job isn’t exactly a highly rational decision. I’m sure we’ve all been in situations where we just want to rub one out. How often does sex traffic or the morals of these women being exploited enter your thought process?
