Lets say one was an industrial worker making textiles at a spinning loom. Every once in a while the fibers get caught in the loom and require manual intervention to untwist the fibers. The boss doesn’t want to stop production so they ask the worker to reach into the loom, next to the fast spinning parts, and unhook the fibers. 99% of the time the worker can do this, 1% of the time they lose their arm and it gets crushed. Should they be allowed to do this? Is it consensual when an industrial worker does something unsafe at the risk of losing their job and not making money?
From the article:
Research shows strangulation is never a safe practice, despite a widespread belief it can be performed safely. Though it often leaves no visible injury, oxygen deprivation, even for very short moments, causes changes to the fragile structures of the brain.
Multiple studies have specifically shown brain changes in women who have been repeatedly “choked” during sex, including markers for brain damage and disruptions in brain hemispheres linked to depression and anxiety.
In most cases these aren’t consenting adults in their spare time. Producing pornography is a job. These people are workers. Workers need protection and regulation from exploitative capitalists who would risk the workers bodies for profit. Is that reactionary?
99% of the time the worker can do this, 1% of the time they lose their arm and it gets crushed. Should they be allowed to do this?
hot take but if a worker wants to do something dumb they should be allowed but if their boss makes them they should be crushed to death in a wine press
Damn, talking about kink really brings the reactionaries out of the woodwork. What consenting adults do in their spare time is their own business.
Obviously the UK is just doing this out of puritanism. If they wanted to help folks be safer, they’d run PSAs or other educational material.
Edit: I suppose this is good if applied to the porn industry, but as per usual I imagine this mostly gets weaponized against vulnerable people.
Lets say one was an industrial worker making textiles at a spinning loom. Every once in a while the fibers get caught in the loom and require manual intervention to untwist the fibers. The boss doesn’t want to stop production so they ask the worker to reach into the loom, next to the fast spinning parts, and unhook the fibers. 99% of the time the worker can do this, 1% of the time they lose their arm and it gets crushed. Should they be allowed to do this? Is it consensual when an industrial worker does something unsafe at the risk of losing their job and not making money?
From the article:
In most cases these aren’t consenting adults in their spare time. Producing pornography is a job. These people are workers. Workers need protection and regulation from exploitative capitalists who would risk the workers bodies for profit. Is that reactionary?
Like I said, I trust the UK government to use this to protect workers about as far as I can throw them.
hot take but if a worker wants to do something dumb they should be allowed but if their boss makes them they should be crushed to death in a wine press