IMO (woman here) those who do it “because they want to” and would do so in any circumstances including socialism are lazy. It’s a similar problem with people who would prefer to rob and steal than get a real job. Or deal drugs because narcotics pays well and seems little work. These are the same mentality of women who marry a rich man because it beats getting a job. Or an abusive man who gas-lights and controls girlfriends to work while he sits at home or drinks her money away. This is anti-social behavior. We are not here to coddle this mentality. And more importantly they are not going to make a lifetime career out of this. At some point these individuals who refuse to self-actualize, to work, to get an education are going to be drummed out by their age and/or inability to maintain desired beauty standards and where will they be then? Starting a career of useful labor in their 40s? Trying to get benefits while avoiding work? By the way, those who start to age out are incentivized and pushed with the option of engaging in ever more extreme, dangerous, degrading acts that other younger ones with options wouldn’t typically do. That’s a social harm.

Now I’m not talking about the circumstances under capitalism though if you look into it a look of people say of many porn performers, those who knew them that they didn’t have a strong aim, strong aspirations for a career or themselves, they kind of just drifted into it. They didn’t wake up at 16 and think how great they were at touching themselves or whatever and think that’s what they want to do out of high school because they’re so skilled at it. It’s a fallback profession like flipping burgers or retail because they don’t have any better ideas or can’t get anything more skilled because of the job market (the latter of course not being what I would call consensual and actually a tragedy by any measure). Unlike those things it perpetuates the commodification of the female form, of women’s bodies. It perpetuates inequality and disharmony among the sexes. It sets up the idea that sex is something you buy, seeing a woman’s body is something you buy, attention is something you buy. That’s bad. As a woman, that is not good. Women will sell out other women, we’ve been doing it for centuries. There’s no more solidarity there than among men, maybe less sometimes it feels like.

A woman worker beside a male one ceases to be his comrade, why? Because he sees her in terms of a commodity, not a human, not her skills, not her university education, but her body, how much it costs to view.

Now some foolish people will claim they’re like therapists, but they’re not, they’re not trained and no psychology body Marxist (or liberal so far to my knowledge) would say this is an ethical thing to do that will help patients. And people claim some guys pay to talk to them but if guys really need someone to talk to it should be other men they know not strangers, women they have pre-existing platonic relationships with, and professional trained psychiatric professionals because you should get people the help they need, not exploit them for money and leave them dependent on you (which is the necessary action of these workers, to continue to draw an audience, to make people dependent on them for something they don’t need to survive nor does industry need it to keep the economy going). So the charade falls, these people are selling bodies, women’s bodies.

And the greatest lie is that it’s the oldest profession. It’s not. That’s a lie. It hasn’t always existed and it can be abolished and should be.

It is at best in the case of those who “want to” a case of people trying to turn a hobby into a career. I don’t think professional-career-gamers will exist under socialism, not unless it’s a formal televised or ticketed sport, without capitalist ad dollars and sponsorships the whole thing dries up. I think only a tiny handful of people will get there and it’ll be as unattainable as being a rock star. I also don’t think masturbating and chatting casually with strangers counts as necessary labor. It begs the question, these women are no better than others at erm their sexual tasks, basically none of them have any formal acting training, they aren’t trained therapists. The value is overwhelmingly in sexual interests and stimulation.

I also am tired of everything being charged for and this perpetuates that late capitalist mentality. Human companionship should absolutely not be in that list. I miss the days of free software, now every jerk with every little piece of software that they spent a few hours on is charging $5 on patreon to use it. Why? Because of hustle culture, because of the idea nothing should be free. That society is owed jack shit by you. That you have no responsibility beyond what you are paid for. It’s a cynical, alienating, anti-social thought pattern. I’m not saying women are obligated to help men out in this area, because we’re not and goodness help you if you say otherwise as men need to help themselves first. I am saying if you like as a hobby being an exhibitionist then go and do so but don’t perpetuate the idea of paying for women and access to our bodies.

Besides that it obviously provides cover for exploitation. Who’s to say for certain that person on the camera is 18? Hell, 18 year olds shouldn’t be able to do this. Brain development doesn’t really complete until you hit 23-25 or so. The very idea it is legitimate, not anti-social, normal, accepted will encourage underage girls to attempt to find ways to do it. It’ll seem easier, something they can do alongside school, something not regulated. The open market provides cover for the black market, we see that in the flesh markets of the Netherlands. Already there are girls who do this, they use social media, they use code words. This is terrible.