SovereignState

The area I’m originally from in the U.S. has made those “meth capital of the country/world” tabloidesque lists before.

After legalization and talking to people from there, seems like the meth problem went down afterwards. Which is good.

However, I am talking about illegally manufactured meth – the type that causes houses to explode. Adderall and other amphetamines are still getting prescribed like crazy.

simply epic

Before my words are twisted: it’s worth noting that prohibition via imprisonment of those in the sex trade is a catastrophic and majorly anti-woman (not always women) and majorly anti-victim reaction. There’s a tendency to paint “SWERFs” as, well, “sex worker exclusionary radical feminists”, rather than what they typically are, feminists who support victims getting out of the sex trade. This is to be done by eliminating poverty, harsh sanctioning and punishing of Johns and pimps, and offering free and accessible vocational training to people currently in the sex trade, as well as a legally enshrined guarantee of non-punishment for being in the sex trade.

A common argument I hear from those in favor of prostitution is “well disabled, ugly and old people need and deserve sex, too!” How utterly ableist, ageist and borderline fetishistic to assume that these people couldn’t have sex or worthwhile relationships without paying for them. What needs to be done is the destruction of an ableist and individualist society and the creation of one that will allow these groups to prosper in their communities and create meaningful romantic and friendly connections with others. Not state-sanctioned prostitution rings. Also, hate to break it to anyone that thinks this, sex is not a basic human necessity or right. You’d think groups that pretend to understand consent and often claim that men have no inherent right to women’s bodies would actually understand this, but many of them seemingly don’t. The state should not exist to give you a girlfriend.

The sex trade is like 1% people who make a living posting porn online, 1% rich white feminists who love doing it, and 98% trafficked, underage and/or starving people. The 98% goes by the wayside in all conversation in favor of the 2%. The idea that a majority of people in the sex trade want out and don’t believe “sex work is real work” worth upholding or maintaining as an industry never crosses the mind of the liberal feminist, nor does the sexpat-pedo cancer on the world.

When you go to Peru and are offered by indigenous 13-16 year old girls with their ribs poking out of their skirts “private massages”, begging you to accept for mere dollars, you’ll understand what a blight the sex trade is.

I recommend the Marxist feminist podcast “Probably Canceled”. They have some takes I’m a little cold to on things like polyamory and kink and whatnot, but even on those ideas they’ve forced me to think harder about them. The main draw, for me, is their excellent deconstruction of the sex trade and scientific dismantling of (neo-)liberal feminist talking points about “empowerment”, etc.