151
China Shuts Down OnlyFans, Calls It a Threat to National Morals and Social Order
(thedailyguardian.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
151 points (99.3% liked)
news
24674 readers
644 users here now
Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:
-
To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).
-
To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.
-
To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.
We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.
Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:
The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.
-
Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
-
Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
-
Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
-
Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
-
Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
-
Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
-
American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
-
Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
-
AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
When defined as you did, by necessitating that prostitution be about the exchange of sex for money, then true, it will not exist in a communist society. But if you define any kind of labor as something done in exchange for money, then that form of labor won't exist under communism, considering communism is, you know, a moneyless society. What will you exchange for the labor done by a person who provides you a skilled, professional massage under communism? Not money, but that doesn't mean that all masseuses and those who seek their skills will cease to exist.
Sex work will still exist just as much as any service work will still exist.
Yes, that is the point. In a society of free producers the nature of production changes dramatically. Sex work under Communism ceases to be work and just becomes sex. Whether you do it with a stranger or a person you know does not change it. I mean, one-night stands exist under capitalism as well. Few people would call that prostitution except weirdos trying to shame women (and prostitutes).
I guess you could call a full-time sex haver who I'd assigned to this role under the plan as a sex worker. But not only does this role seem dubious in a society where sexual activity is unrestricted, but also requires the communist society to have enough surplus labor to spend it as such.
After all, the point of prostitution under class society, as engels puts it, is to be able to have sex without risking the a child who you then have to take care of, cause that child is the sex workers problem. These days, the loneliness crisis is also feeding into prostitution. But both reasons should be solved under Communism. Sex under Communism should just be fun, not a way to paper over social contradictions.
Nothing. Under higher stage Communism there is no exchange. Just a ration of labor you are allowed to use (assuming there is no full automation).
A lot of service work might disappear under Communism. Not only due to automation, but also due to them having different social values and different social needs in a society where present day contradictions are resolved. Sex work as you describe it may still exist for various reasons, but it might not as well.