Yeah we’re going there. Let’s get this struggle session up early.

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Sex would be banned in a proper socialist society to preserve everyone’s vital essence, so I’m going to have to say no.

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As long as society has progressed past the existence of the precariat, I don’t see why not.

People needing to sell their sexuality to eat and have shelter is bad. Coerced labor is bad. Coerced sex is bad. So coerced sexual labor is particularly bad. (This is not the fault of sex workers. SWERFS fuck off.)

If everyone’s basic needs are automatically met, but we’re still using a money-like system (call it labor vouchers if you must) to allocate the remaining scarce goods, and someone decides to sell nudes for extra spending money, then whatever. It’s no longer coerced so I don’t care, go for it.

If we’ve progressed beyond all forms of scarcity, then sex work doesn’t exist because work doesn’t exist. That’s just a roleplay kink. Go for it.

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how else are you gonna get laid lmao

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😔

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Depends on the stage of communism. In a low stage communist society (as well as late dictatorship of the proletariat, ‘socialist’ society) it would likely exist at least in some form. Hopefully this form will be less coercive. This stage is likely the best any of us could hope to see, which is why it is important to recognise sex work as socially necessary work.

In an advanced stage, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” society prostitution would likely not exist, at least as we currently recognise it. There would still be a need for porn, but it might be produced more as a hobby, as the line between hobby and creative work would be blurred.

Or what do I know, maybe people will just be jerking it to Karl Marx hentai.

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imagine working at all in a socialist society smdh

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So much for ‘from each according to their ability’

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