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This is not new in principle.
The laughable disparity between Conservative AND Liberal lust for mainstream blood-sport entertainment (generally characters who get murdered in a Hollywood movie are not consenting adults in their characters), but most of the properly legally buttoned up professional adult industry does a lot more to ensure that their work product contains 100% adult consensual conduct - explicitly and implicitly.
For adult producers, "dubious consent" themes are dark water, but for Hollywood, even during "family hour", people getting abducted, tortured, sexually abused, and slaughtered with full dramatic slow motion effects and musical background, is the norm.
Big money is about money, and nothing else. It responds to large-scale calculus of how its policies will affect their bottom line.
But let's not forget that the bottom line of big money include massive corporate welfare and government donations (of public funds) to keep the biggest pictures on track.
I was curious to see if Trump getting elected would send a wave of legal tolerance towards the sex industry, as the former US president seemed to be (maybe still is) a major personal supporter of the sex industry, and according the numerous women who have filed complaints and suits against him for sexual misconduct, but no joy.
The right wing-nut conservatives (Dem and Rep) seem to trump the President, when it comes to laws pertaining to sexuality.
On the other, at face value, when any financial institution decides to upgrade its vetting of vendors/customers, that's not necessarily a bad thing when the measures are legitimate and can weed out bad industry players.
But as we have seen with 2257 with president Bush (the lesser), if the rules become so overbearing that "clerical errors" become more serious offenses (and cash cows for enforcement) than actual improper conduct between producers and talent, this is too far.
This is not the beginning of the story, nor the end.
-Dino Cortez
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