The whole thing: The girls doing it NSFW content and selling it, the dudes buying into it mostly because they won’t have any of it in real life, the way society sees it… Thoughts?
Personally I think every adult woman can do whatever the fuck she wants with her body and sexuality, even sell it. But obviously there will be consequences later in life if she wants to became a mother… And it shouldn’t be like that anymore.
The dudes buying “their girlfriend” there is complicated. At first I made fun of them but now I realised for many men, myself included, is that fake sexual relationship (or even fake sentimental relationships) or NOTHING. I won’t buy any of that for myself, since the fake part kills any allure for me, plus preferring to keep that little money I got left in my wallet but I understand more why more men do it. Is their only shot to a reality close to a relationship, is that or AI girlfriends.
Just see how many people it’s having kids nowadays, the effect on women/men of objectivifing their bodies at exchange for money I believe will have insane repercussions in the future society.
It’s not all about the blue page but about modern day capitalism and the pushing of rampant individualism.
The media sell OF as a way of empowerment but it isn’t anything else than a business of objectivifing themselves for money.
I believe social media validation addiction will be a very big concern in the future.
Mostly I’m onboard with what you’re saying here. Although, like others have said, don’t forget there’s plenty of people on OF who aren’t women! If there is any problem at all, why isn’t it also a problem for them? Second, I definitely wonder how many of the opinions in this thread are coming from other women who’ve done sex work. Those are mostly the only people I wanna hear from on this topic.
As far as the “fakeness” not working for you personally, I might have some good news for you. While of course capitalism does tend to suck all of the joy out of everything, like all professions, there are sex workers who definitely do enjoy their work. At least as much as anyone can feasibly enjoy working under capitalism anyway.
People need money, people want to pay for sex, it’s a lot less exploitative than a lot of alternatives
There was an article last week about the hired writers who do the messaging with customers. Was kind of interesting.
You’re aware there’s not just women on OnlyFans, right? As long as anyone doing it is enjoying it and not hurting anyone. I don’t see a problem.
I don’t pay for any OnlyFans, but I suppose if people are getting something out of it, and not being taken advantage of, there shouldn’t be a problem.
Cmon dude, OF is synonym with online sex work by now. Is a big chunk of the place.
Is it? I assumed it was some portion of it, but didn’t know to what extent. I was just speaking from the couple times I’ve seen things on there.
after my divorce, long before only fans existed, I spent a decent amount of money on webcam strippers. I spent a little more money than I should have, but not to the level of an addiction that cost me anything else, and it eventually petered out.
Seems like it could be fun, but I’m not hot enough for one
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You and me both
You’d be surprised, attractiveness is subjective!
I was saying the same thing as you a while ago and somebody told me that I’d be surprised and that attractiveness is subjective. And you know what? They were right!
People are so damn shallow about looks, it’s ridiculous.
The fact is that an AIO has a shorter lifespan, is way more expensive per-watt, and… Oh, right.
Sex work is work, and the people doing it deserve respect. Fuck the ‘there will be consequences’ mindset, since that mostly comes from the people imposing the ‘consequences’ in the first place.
I wouldn’t be willing/able to suspend disbelief about an actual personal connection either, but it’s a valid human emotional need, and if it works for people, good for them.
You might say fuck that, but in reality, there’s a fair chance future kids will have their mates seeing their mother in all sorts of graphic situations. They will see it themselves. That is a reality and I would never say ‘fuck that’ to my kids seeing their mother like that.
If I’m committing to a system, I only want fans. Lowest levels of maintenance ever
Weird sentiments in this thread. Everyone should do as they please and make money in any way they want. BTW there are also a lot of dudes on OF. But that’s just ‘boys being boys’ I guess🤷
It’s probably one of the more fair ways for people to get paid for sex work. I’ve read stories of porn actresses making $5,000 a month through big name studios switching to OnlyFans and making $30,000 a month.
I’d say even in general it’s better for people who create content to sell directly to consumers instead of working for a corporation.
This is how I see it too, there’s the trope that it’s only neckbeards who can’t get any, but really I see it as the future of pornography. Sex work is real work, they deserve to get paid for it. Creators have said that it is leaps and bounds better than the standard porn industry in terms of how they’re exploited and treated, because they’re their own Boss
The only thing I’m not too happy about is the amount of spam it is causing.
Fuck anyone that uses bots to advertise their crap from OF to every godforsaken platform; Other than that i don’t care what others do.
OnlyFans is just one step below prostitution. They will vanish overnight when sex work is legal.
If anything, get an actual sex worker in person. Settling for OnlyFans is ridiculous when there are literal TBs of porn out there. In person may be therapeutic for you as well. At the same time, invest in yourself. Workout, go to school and read actual books. Be someone worth being with.
Or…… still be on OnlyFans in 5 years sending some stranger your money while they love and fuck someone else. Up to you. I really don’t care.
OnlyFans is just one step below prostitution. They will vanish overnight when sex work is legal.
This is absolutely not true, and is absolutely dripping with sexism.
Settling for OnlyFans is ridiculous when there are literal TBs of porn out there.
People aren’t paying for porn. They’re paying for parasocial relationships.
I never mentioned sex or gender in anyway but you perceive whatever you like.
Yes I know they’re paying for parasocial sexual relationships and when real life encounters are possible this online bs will disappear. But great job trying to undermine my comment and advice. This was a ask lemmy post seeking opinions, not your opinion of my opinion
According to you, if they weren’t getting naked and performing in a sexual manner, people would pay for that parasocial relationship. Lol ok
There was a study which showed the only super fans were friends or family. Fucking gross.
I think you mean parasitic relationships.
If you don’t know what a parasocial relationship is, you can always look it up.
If they are doing it of their own free will, and it’s their decision, I see no problem with it.
I am 100% on board with people doing with their body whatever they want. Restricting that is just ridiculous.
But that also necessarily means, they can decide to do immoral things with their body, which I do not need to be a fan of. And that’s where I’m still somewhat undecided on how to think of the whole sex work industry.As you say, to some degree, it is simply mental care for those customers. I do think, the offering should exist.
But it’s also all too easy for it to become extremely exploitative.I’m thinking, in some far-off, progressive future (not sure, if we get there before work stops really being a thing), there would be self-help groups or simply therapy offerings, for those who spend their life earnings on getting sex work done.
