Winning The Battle, But Losing The War

In the past several months a bit of a white pill has emerged, and definite proof has finally confirmed what the Right has been saying for years, specifically, pornographers (namely Pornhub) have been knowingly engaging in human trafficking, including minors, as people who were victims have shown up on the site. The results have been swift: the company is being sued and PayPal is no longer processing its transactions, same with the major credit card companies. Thank God, because this is a major victory. No longer can anyone claim this is just a conspiracy, and it also serves as pretty solid evidence that contra the claims of libertarians, some businesses really are inherently abusive.

While this is good news, and I don’t want to be a downer, I do fear that while this particular battle has been won, the war is being lost. To understand why this is the case, we must look at some of the more important developments of the past ten years. A lot of the leftist concepts that have exploded onto the mainstream in the past few years – transgenderism, white privilege, the patriarchy, etc., have all been festering around in academia for decades, but were never able to make much of an impact on the broader culture until around 2010 or 2011. And, while there were multiple factors that lead to this, one of the most significant was the rise of Tumblr. If you don’t remember Tumblr, it was (well is) a microblogging platform that was popular with women in their teens and early 20s. During its heyday, it ended up being the springboard for much of the current Marxist jargon that plagues us.

One such concept was particularly damaging – the idea that pornography is liberation and the reason porn stars are looked down on by the vast majority of society is because the “evil” patriarchy is trying to regulate sexuality. The message then was simple and helped seduce many young and impressionable girls that the pornographer is not a sleaze merchant out to use you, he is actually trying to liberate you from the oppression of your father (leftist movements always hate fatherhood due to their hatred of God).

In North America and Western Europe, though this is global at this point, the sex industry became a siren call to women, promising that it could liberate them from the patriarchy. As it turned out, the “liberators” were sleazebag men who saw women as sex objects and wanted a justification to engage in their carnal passions. There have always been men like this, sex is far to basic of a human need to get rid of them. It is why every healthy society has to regulate sex in some way. It is also why women were drawn to the early Church. Whereas pagan Greek and Rome only wanted to put the requirement of chastity on women, Christians demanded that both men and women be subjected to the same moral standards. But, in the imagination of the feminist, what the historical record actually shows was of no consequence, the regulation of sexual activity, rather than protecting women, was oppressing them. The sleazes who wanted to use women for their own ends, ignoring Christian morality, found a new angle.

This raises the question as why it took so long for this to seep into the mainstream. Certainly, it did not take the unscrupulous 2,000 years to figure out that the best way to use women was to promise to liberate them. The answer, however, is the fall of the patriarchy itself and the rise of men abandoning their fatherly duties. In older, saner times, there was a large ideological force that could serve as a check on the scum trying to corrupt women. This force was so strong it could work on most (though by no means all) cases, even when the actual father was absent (it was still better to have the actual father there, enforcing the Christian understanding of sex). During the Great Depression, many men did fail to look after their children. Some committed suicide, some turned to the bottle, and some simply left entirely. So, why then did the years of the Great Depression not produce a similar ideological climate like the current one today? It’s because a naturally conservative and traditional society could fill the role of an absentee father. This does point to a society having an active role in promoting public morality; whereas, individuals left to themselves cannot maintain it.

The past several years have seen a remarkable decline in the importance of fathers. One can clearly see this on television sitcoms. While the sitcoms of the 1950s would feature a stern and wise father figure that tried to teach his children moral lessons, by the 1990s this was gone and in its place was an utter buffoon, an overgrown man-child who only cares about sports. It was the mother who became the stabilizing force in the family. The family did not need the father, he was there for comedic relief. More than just sitcoms, this same phenomenon played itself out in reality – many fathers have indeed ignored their families, instead paying more attention to the NFL, Star Wars, and comic books.

This dereliction of fatherly duties allowed for an entire generation of women to be easily preyed on by degenerate scumbags. They had no father figure in their lives and society could not provide them with a surrogate one. Thus, the idea that pornography is really an act of liberation could spread far more easily than it could before. And that is why, though the destruction of Pornhub is undoubtedly a good thing, the larger issue remains unsolved. There is still a deficit of authentic male leadership and that allows more unsavory men to abuse women by beguiling them as their faux liberators. Though Pornhub may fall, until that larger issue is solved, they will just move on to a new platform, claiming that this one is different and offers true liberation.

We can already see that. As the heat turned up on Pornhub, OnlyFans rose in its place, though in this case the feminist ideology being sold is even more explicit. I am fairly confident that much like Pornhub, the dark side of Only Fans, one that allows and promotes abuse, will be exposed. Some industries cannot be reformed and porn is one of them. However, unless the larger issue is solved, one regarding the lack of an authentic masculinity, something new and far more vile will simply come along to replace OnlyFans.

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