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Although I don't know whether Clinton has ever been openly hostile to porn,
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She hasn't.
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most of the people in her intellectual crowd consider it violent and hateful and oppressive to women.
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Which speaks volumes about the kinds of niches they're clicking on.
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News about modern sex-positive feminism -- the kind that respects the agency and consent of porn stars and sex workers -- seems not to have reached feminists of Clinton's age. Thus, I think there's a real risk that President Hillary Clinton would use the power of the presidency to prosecute, silence, or just plain hassle the entire porn industry.
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Personally I think she'd have bigger fish to fry, as would The Donald should he somehow manage the win. Under Bill I felt there was actually less 'hassle' for us than there was under Bush. But screwing too much with the porn industry (pun intended) is a slippery slope that most politicians don't want to take on. It quickly becomes a civil rights issue, a freedom of expression issue, and of course the censorship of what millions of adults can or can not choose to view. It's a messy agenda that only the holiest of religious righties would take a serious run at.
Your "if it were to suit his/her agenda..." argument can really be said of any political candidate, about any social issue or industry out there. There are fights against certain types of porn that are winnable, at least in the sense that cracking down more draws higher ratings in the polls, but those types (kiddie porn, beastie, etc) deserve it and have no bearing on what we consider to be the actual industry. I always like to see those things cracked down on, personally, don't you?
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However, he's an opportunistic authoritarian without principles.
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Oh I want to vote for that guy!
Seriously I don't think I've ever seen Trump's character summed up so completely in so few words. Yet I and I assume millions of others still
like the guy. I do. I've watched his show for years now, he's a lot of things and certainly exactly what you said yet he's also magnetic. Those who don't understand how he's getting votes and polling so well need to figure this out, and fast. Only 4 1/2 months until E day.
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Which one is worse? It's six-five and pick 'em if you ask me. Hillary's less likely to take any anti-porn initiative because her coalition is split on the question, with noisy modern sex-pos feminists who will defend porn from inside her tent. But she probably hates porn a lot harder than Donald.
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Summation correct. Although I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that more of these so-called 'moralistic' politicians secretly get off on one kind of porn or erotica than not, Hills included. She's an old 60's hippie, surely she hasn't totally forgotten her sexual revolutionistical roots.
I've long enjoyed many of your posts, btw.
Especially this one, with your inclusion of
syb·a·rit·ic
ˌsibəˈritik/Submit
adjective
fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent.
"their opulent and sybaritic lifestyle"
synonyms: luxurious, extravagant, lavish, self-indulgent, pleasure-seeking, sensual, voluptuous, hedonistic, epicurean, lotus-eating, libertine, debauched, decadent
"she regretted having left her homespun past for this sybaritic life with Lanzo"
Awesome. :D