So you have arbitrarily decided that I must think about sex either magically or materialistically.

Good day to you sir.

And you would be right. That is what it sounds like. We all get forced into working. Some have to wear a uniform and serve coffee and biscuits, others have to slop 50 year old meat in a dirty toilet - or whatever scenario that makes it more palatable.

Why do I have to think about sex materialistically?

When a boss asks an employee if they like their job, then the employee rarely have anything to gain by saying no - even if they don't actually like their job.

Honesty isn't necessarily rewarded. That makes it hard to know if a person actually does porn because they like it, since they usually have an incentive to say they like it regardless.

There are significant differences to being forced to sell your mind, competence and time; vs being forced to auction off the another's use of your own genitals.

I think the comparison is about want and need. They do it because they feel forced into it, by some means or another.

So you are saying some people want to do porn, and others don't. Presumably because some like it and some don't. They all do it for money though, none of them do it for free.

What's the basis of knowing if someone does it because they like it then? Because they say so?

US being at war is fairly predictable, tbh.

It is an important distinction though, because standing up to US might imply leaning towards China. But standing up to US and China, implies a third option: Europe need to huddle up together.

"Don't think about it."

RTFM is mostly a flex that people who got help before you are now referring to because they are already on the boat.

That said, a rudimentary Web search or maybe a llm question, might be in order before asking. You also learn more when you get those little successes by yourself.

You are right that it was a loaded question, and you had a smart answer, but the implication of this "inconsequential" change represented by the current birthdate is of course more invasive identification later.

Otherwise why would they bother, because as it is now it is useless or inconsequential.