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Twitter Gobsmacked By "Sex Work As 'Mutual Aid' Under Communism" Hot Take
Nothing lights a fire under the kettle of Twitter discourse like sexual politics and last weekend was full of them. Alongside a tale of 19-year-old girl seeming to quite clearly have married an 89-year-old rich dude for money, Twitter was left gobsmacked by a hypothesis from lefty Twitter user @merrickdeville which suggested that under communism, "sex work" could be redefined as "sexual mutual aid." In a follow-up tweet, she clarified, "Altruistically providing sexual services to people you aren't attracted to bc you think a community with access to intimacy and release is ideal and healthier than what we have now is more of a selfless service than 'just sex.'"
Essentially, this argument boils down to, as user @Halalcoholism put it, pity sex as good praxis.
Pity fucking? That’s praxis pic.twitter.com/rLblhivvxH
— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) October 11, 2020
This led to a miniature meltdown on the site, as people cringed and joked their way through this astonishingly blazing hot take. First, there was a wave of criticism at the very idea itself:
This "sex work as mutual aid under communism" discourse is what comes of folks trying to glamorize sex work as something that people do because it's "fun" and "empowering" and not something the overwhelming majority of sex workers do to eat while facing violence and exploitation.
— 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑲𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒏 (@wildfonts) October 12, 2020
incels literally fantasize about having women available for sex with them on demand by the government & these single digit iq libfems wanna talk about how state-funded “sexual mutual aid” would benefit society. fuck all of you
— 🕷 (@femtheist) October 11, 2020
There was also a ton of cringing.
If anyone had sex with me and called it sexual mutual aid I'd kill myself
— The Mudman (@mudmanCT) October 11, 2020
Just saw the words "sex as mutual aid" on the TL and I don't want to be alive anymore 😐
— 🦋 (@coldtakesonly) October 11, 2020
i logged on and the first two tweets i saw were about sex as mutual aid goodbye twitter
— durian head (@lilacyarn) October 11, 2020
And naturally, there were jokes.
Mutual Aid Sex Work? more like Universal Basic Girlfriend
— Bill Banks: The Turbo Cuck ☭ (@brizzle_bill) October 11, 2020
Government agents injecting your sperm back into your balls because they found out that you had too much sex to qualify for the mutual aid you received
— Justin Whang 🐙 (@JustinWhang) October 12, 2020
i get no respect from anyone. my wife, she tells me she got promoted to the head of the DSA. i said "that's great honey, what'd you do to get promoted?", she said "i told them i've been having mutual aid sex with you!" pic.twitter.com/LAWXkPW1IA
— Valentina (@leftistthot420) October 11, 2020
This is hardly the first time Twitter has gone bananas over a ludicrous sex innovation, and it certainly won't be the last. Perhaps the influx of hot sex takes on Twitter is due to the fall of Tumblr, where these ideas could flow more freely and generate an altogether different sort of controversy, but as Twitter turns into a massive melting pot of all the internet's most, er, forward thinkers, we all get to enjoy the "premier" discourse about every topic under the sun.
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