Yeah it’s really easy for regressives to target sexual topics. Firstly, the private nature of such topics makes it difficult to defend both due to internal cultural shame and due to fear that when you speak up you will be discredited as someone who lacks that shame, a pervert.

Then there’s the fact that libertine lifestyles leave extra opportunities to be hurt. The price of freedom is the opportunity to make bad choices, the price of trust is that others have the opportunity to hurt you and some will.

There is an intense revulsion to sexual harm and an added injury when it’s experienced. In sex work including porn you add the opportunity for the ways in which labor is exploited and laborers are abused into sexual contexts and even the most class unconscious American instinctively feels that and it’s easy to see it as inherently extremely evil and harmful.

But even outside of sex work, sexually libertine lifestyles offer a lot of opportunities to be hurt. I say this from experience as someone who has been hurt in some of these ways on multiple occasions and has continued living that way.

It’s also very easy to sanitize the past. Every generation thinks they invented sex, except for the ones that grew up in a society where sexual freedom was normal, and they often don’t understand why we fought so hard for it. They didn’t watch as some of the adults around them growing up were slowly stifled by a life and a marriage that made them miserable. They demand a retvrn to a fictional world where the neighbors down the street not only weren’t swinging but didn’t want to and where there weren’t porno mag stashes in the woods that the kids snuck readings of just as much as the dad.

Idk maybe I’m just the slutty daughter of a straight woman who actually read playboy for the articles (and I gotta say as a lesbian, at its peak the porn wasn’t half as good as the writing). There is value in the sexual and there is value in the unabashed adultness and rawness that can thrive alongside it. To sincerely speak to those who live differently from you but have been vulnerable in the way of admitting their more adult life, that is a rare treat for one to experience outside adolescence. I want a world in which the sex repulsed asexual, the monogamous couple, and the hobag are all free to live according to their desires, and banning porn is a clear attack on that world