So what’s the difference? XXX Coerced anything is non-consent. That makes it a perfect fantasy. Disgust couches itself in the language of morality to justify itself. Having kicked that shit to the kerb, let’s return to the more serious and troubling problem of the damaging influence fuck stories might have. Right, wrong or complicated? That’s not a service that the producers of romcoms have ever offered, even though they really, really should. Violence is also affected by this of course. At least text on a page isn’t directly perpetrating sexual exploitation, and at least it’s only reaching the people who actively seek it out, rather than being indiscriminately beamed into the brains of entire nations. Arguably it’s wrong to have kids in an incestuous relationship because of the genetic risks you’re taking on behalf of your child, which they cannot consent to.
