re: "OnlyFans star's arrest renews debate on sex work" (BP, September 28, 2021)
Dear editor,
Sex is natural. Performing sex is fun, or at least it should be. And as both high and low art have for millennia attested, watching sex or sex-drenched performance is highly entertaining, even fun. There is no good reason whatsoever to think that there is anything less morally decent about paying for consenting sex than paying for consenting cooking, consenting teaching, consenting preaching, consenting surgery, or any other act where two parties freely agree to a mutually rewarding exchange. To claim that the act of freely performed sex or watching such an act is in any way morally wrong shows, on the contrary, that there is something seriously stunted or worse in the moral development of those making such misguided claims.
Of course, it must be conceded in defence of such laws as those used by officers of those famous paragons of moral excellence the Royal Thai Police to shamefully harass and embarrass the honest, hard-working creators of joy on OnlyFans that much traditional corruption would not be possible without those legal tools. And what kind of zealous moralist, ignorant alike of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill and all the other great moral philosophers through to today, would tolerate any threat to such venerable traditions rooted solidly in uncritical unreason supporting received prejudice?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on October 2, 2021, under the title "Sexually misguided" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2191223/too-dam-costly
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