Not much of a difference overall, both pr*stitution and p*rnography deal with exploitation of human bodies and commodifying them for consumption in a way, but prostitution has a direct sexual encounter, the other has the prostitute or prostitutes being filmed and the film or images sold and purchased by people looking for a less direct form of sexual stimulation.
The lesser forms then are animation or drawn images or A.I. generated, from hyper realistic to totally unreal looking, even less than images might be fictional writing and fantasy that is pretty graphically described to the most subtle and vague innuendo and implications or hints left up to the imagination.
You can rank these.
The most extreme is direct sexual intercourse, the next is viewing others having direct sexual intercourse live, and then it goes from there all the way to the heart symbol and the letters p, v, B, and STD.
I think that all exploitation of, objectifying of, commodifying of, sale if, sales value added to, humans and human things is all bad, with direct selling of one’s body being more bad than selling the product of one’s labor, which can still ne considered the sale of some extension of their bodily labor, but there are forms of self-sale that are normalized, and others that some are trying to normalize, and others which are quite difficult to turn people away from once they have accepted it as normal, like their selling off their one of a kind art or people licensing and controlling their efforts or even their personal images, practically like enslavement, but “what does it matter, we bought the rights to profit from your image exclusively, you sold away the model and plan and design of your image and form, the copyright and plan to you, belongs to our intellectual property holding firm and body bank to be used however we see fit”.
Anything even like that, should be reacted to with visceral, “noble savage”, animalistic, “true human” rage, not even slow, potentially self-deluding logic, but readiness to violence over any attempt at anything, enslaving and exploiting anyone or anything else, but especially a precious concern for your own body and extensions of such, even if it seems irrational. The enemy of humanity takes advantage of one’s patience and reasoning, it can not be reasoned with, it is purely predatory, and people should bully, terrorize, and lash out with extreme reactions to attempts, even hints or suggestions, of trying to take your body and “soul” in exchange for some made up paper with some made up value attributed to it, that changes freely and can change drastically in a moment. Such should not even be an option, and people who try to trick people into bondage are none other than conjurers and witches and should be treated like them too and fought tooth and nail, a better use for your tooth and nail than selling them to a damned ghoul and vampire to feast upon.
So, as much as you can balance survival, exploiters should find only a closed door with anyone with any sense, and don’t invite them in, and work all harm towards them, and if you can end them without causing trouble to yourself, end them however you can, since they wanted to enslave you and use every bit of your body, they wanted to chew you up and sh*t you out, so they are the enemy, show no mercy to cancer.
Now, limited and controlled exploitation, like a small gang of wh*res effing amongst themselves in undisclosed locations, broadcast to the public, is also bad in my opinion, and promoting bad, bad for those agreeing to it and participating in it in any way, but isn’t in my opinion as bad as becoming any kind of a pr*stitute or actually having direct contact or interactions with pr*stitutes or even pr*miscuous people who may spread more than just STDs, but also a bad philosophy and way of thinking if themselves, others, bodies, interactions, relationships, s*x, s*xuality, and what should instead be beautified and idealized and romanticized, kept ideal, romantic, and possibly high minded, mingled with notions like love, care, honor, nobility, duty, obligation, fairness, mercy, gentleness, considerations, emotion, conscientiousness, consideration, concern.
Why is porn less bad? It is given a layer of distance and separation, especially if it is free, and the people doing wrong and being wronged are doing so in an overall small group separated from the people for the most part, viewed voyeuristically with no way to get in contact with them either. It creates false and unreasonable expectations and fantasies for some, it still teaches all kinds of wrong things, but it is looking at and getting aroused by people doing things, not directly interacting with and doing things with those people, or buying bodies or selling bodies, but watching other bought people selling themselves. It is bad, but not taking up the same exact spaces as directly going with prostitutes or paying for people to perform sex acts on a camera, the latter of which I still rank as less than direct interaction with their bodies, but any interaction is worse in my opinion than no interaction while anonymously viewing them while one remains mostly unknown and unseen and undetectable, and if it was filmed separately that seems less to me than live voyeurism. I can, and it is perhaps futile, rank and reason everything and justify why, even with superstitions at times, I feel some are worse than others, but I, as a proper pride, think it is all bad and leading to bad, despite any slight benefits it may seem to offer.
Even relationships are or can be a little bad, particularly if one is pestering or demanding another human being to do things that they are unlikely to be enthusiastic about doing, like the many things that p*rn suggests to people.
Working these things out as a wh*re with your own person long-term “forever wh*re”, and doing so as patiently and respectfully as one can, may be the best compromise short of celibacy, which seems to be a bad option as well, and if universally adopted might make an end of a lot of problems, such as the existence of the human race.
