I have a thread I want to share here because I think it's important. It was in response to this post:
> Bluntly? In the eyes of payment processors and anti porn lobby groups, if you make NSFW content at all -- even if you're strictly an artist or strictly a writer or a gamedev -- you are a sex worker in their eyes. You're in the same boat as us. Please remember this next time we ask for solidarity. (https://bsky.app/profile/yourdadloves.me/post/3lv6glmxlkk22)
I’m in a smut genre that is dominated by cis men (both in authors and readers). It has been interesting watching my colleagues slowly come to this realization. There’s some jokes about it, of course, but after the laughter… the solidarity is forming on that side.
This is a long project for me. I’ve said this since I started writing in this genre. We are (as far as puritanical groups are concerned) sex workers, and in terms of political action groups we should be in coalition with traditional or online sex workers. Authors, artists, gamedevs - all of us.
this also means supporting things that don’t benefit us directly. We need to lend our voices to support laws that empower or protect traditional sex workers - and we need to make sure we’re doing that for the laws they want, not what we think is best for them.
If you’re in a field where this applies, have that conversation with your peers. They will resist at first, and make jokes. Let them get it out of their system. Be persistent and stay calm. You are doing this so the overworked front line activists have more support down the line.
But we are sex workers, just in a different field. It is not a bad thing, it is not a shameful thing. No sex work is bad or shameful. And we need to stand with other sex workers on all issues.
And non erotic authors/artists/etc? If you include adult themes? We need you to stand with us too.
I would prefer you just help because we need support, but if that doesn’t matter you should still care because it will impact you. Not at first. They’ll grow it slowly. But eventually any work that isn’t clean and puritan is up for the chopping block.
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