because it kind of is?
Good
While the (re-)ban probably happened this article doesn't link to any sources for its claims, which makes me suspicious about the claimed quotes by government officials about "Western moral decay" and whatnot.
Seem to be mixed opinions of this here.
I'm of the opinion sex workers should not be criminals and need protections, but sex work should not be encouraged. A longterm goal of reducing it through improvement of the conditions and targeting causes is what I would prefer.
Balancing that is never going to be easy but seems right.
This is the most correct take in the thread tbh
It's just really difficult to say what's right to do with something like Only Fans. I think it makes getting into sex work far too easy and far too normalised, on top of creating a massive corporation that has a vested interest in normalising sex work in society and is actively using professional marketing and other methods to achieve that.
It seems heavy handed to shut down something so many sex workers obviously rely on but at the same time I can't see how you would handle it otherwise? Maybe a smoking approach would work? Rather than outright prohibition you could make laws banning the advertising of services related to sex work, banning branded advertising, banning visible brands, etc etc. Force it into the dark. Individual sex workers wouldn't be affected by this much but a large company built on sex work like Only Fans would be targetable. This would probably kill the business' ability to exist at all though so it's possibly the same thing as banning it but through a more detached method.
I think a huge problem is how it exists on social media in the most exploitative way possible, which has driven demand way up.
I literally cannot scroll Instagram without being shown onlyfans girls. The algorithm has sensed I am a young man, and as such I need BBL's on my feed. It's in short formats too, with optimised attention-catching editing/text/structure or whatever. It's insane that it exists on an app which so many children use, and it's insane that so much of it can be served up alongside normal content.
Yeah it is absolutely everywhere and in that regard I don't fault China's analysis that some have translated as saying it is a "disease".
It has contributed MASSIVELY to a rise in sex work in my opinion, but finding information on that is a mess because of the muddied terminology between compensated sex activities vs pornographic sex work. I think we can all at least agree an increase in sex work is not a good thing and aiming not to increase the population of sex workers who are in the massive majority women.
I can't fathom buying porn, like they could stop making porn right now and you'd have content for the rest of your life but your actually paying money to masturbate? It's free
I think you are paying for the parasocial relationship with the performer
Yeah and that's where I'm like "so this is something losers do?" and idk why it's not treated like watching anime was 10 years ago
I think it definitely is something "losers" do, although I think it might be healthier than most of the other incel-adjacent treats? (The bar is literally on the floor)
I remember years ago I used to watch Trisha Peytas and remembered a kid no older than 14 went up to her in public and showed her he was subscribed to her OF
I think you might have a point
I'd say it's more ethical to pay directly to the actors / actresses if you consume it. I'm a cheap bastard so I only get my beanis up to films that entered public domain /s
I still don't understand feeling compelled to pay for jacking off
What about getting paid to jack off? If so, my friend's over at Only Fans have an opportunity for you
now we are talking
Country where porn is banned, bans porn.
More like country where porn is banned and Western social media sites are blocked blocks Western social media site designed around porn.
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