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“Teens as young as 12“
Im pretty sure that's now how teens work...
"People as young as 12 have realistic views of the economic viability of sexuality, how dare they."
Somehow I doubt that. More likely they view it like being a YouTuber, streamer, or influencer, when in reality it's primarily video production and marketing. It's not just "film titties get money", you have to actually convince people to subscribe.
It is like being a YouTuber. People think it's easy money and then they make jack-shit with barely any audience all while working their ass off. Only a few get big, most burn out after lots of work and little success.
I think that the larger problem is that you probably aren't going to be an erotic actress for your whole life.
Like, what the authors seem to be focusing on is the degree to which teens might see this as an alternative to traditional work or being educated:
Another important finding was how strongly OnlyFans was associated with financial success. Teens repeatedly cited the platform as an easier and more appealing alternative to traditional work or education.
So, okay. Say you're a young woman and 20, and you make pretty good money putting on cat ears and licking a microphone or whatever's presently in vogue compared to most other things you could be doing at that age. But...are you going to be doing that at 30? 40? 50? Are you likely to make enough to retire off that in the time that you're successfully doing that? Because if you haven't acquired a skillset in that period for a lifelong career...like, if you forego education for that, that could be a really expensive exchange.
Now, in fairness, I kind of feel like some similar issues also apply to things like being a professional sports player. Short viable career for most sports, high risk of not being able to make it big enough to retire off earnings. But we also haven't had a radical recent shift in the pro sports industry.
I guess maybe pro gamers could be in a similar position. I don't know how many teens plan to do that (though I haven't seen a lot of material agonising about the number of teens who want to become pro gamers). I have seen a lot of material concerned about the wildly-beyond-what-can-be-sustained numbers who want to become social media influencers, though.
EDIT: Regarding influencers:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-influencers-86-of-young-americans-want-to-become-one/
86% of young Americans want to become a social media influencer
I can't give you a percentage of society that can be viably dedicated to trying to influence others on social media off the cuff, but I am very confident that it is far, far less than that. If anything remotely approaching that level tries to do the field full time and make major tradeoffs for it, that's going to potentially be very costly for society.
There's not really any stigma to being a former sports star, that's one big difference.
I mean, I can imagine a world where there isn't to being a former erotic actress either. Used to be a stigma attached to being a (non-erotic) actor or actress, whereas today, we have very high-prestige actors.
But that world still requires people to have a skillset for their working life
like, that's kinda fundamental.
I can imagine it too, but that's not the world we live in, and I don't think we will any time soon.
Somebody start monitoring GOP members for trips to Spain
The children yearn for the.. yikes.
y i k e s
In person sex work might be safe from AI, only fans probably not.
I'm a 32 year old man with a receeding hairline. I too see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work. Unfortunately no one else wants to see that.
Now I want the woke crowd to defend mainstreamification of sex work.
sex work is work no different than other jobs other than puritanical stigma against it
I don’t agree. I have a simple test which anyone cam do. Ask yourself- Would I promote my child (obviously once they become legal age) to do xyz?
Rather than banning, I'll just explain why I think you're a troll or an idiot.
If you're not rich you're selling your body.
Coal miners? Longshoreman? Farmers? Hell, sitting at a desk all day.
They all sell their body.
The only difference is you assume that it's shameful if it's sexual, or your trolling.
You know what, fuck it. Ban me. I don't think I have broken any rules.
We are not religious in any way, for good reason. We also don't necessarily shelter our kids. But my kids around this age don't even know what Only Fans is. And them and their friend group never say or do anything even alluding to knowing or caring about these kinds of things.
These kids are being exposed to something and some kind of authority figures are failing them.
They know what it is. My 11 year old knows what it is because of YouTube, memes, and such.
Knowing what it is and actively viewing it because you know what it is are two separate things.
Your first failure in this response is a presumption that everyone's kids have unrelenting access to YouTube, memes, or social media. Especially presuming parents are not at all making time to give the kids context as things come up due to school or otherwise, or as we open doors and give more independence.
I know lots of neighborhood kids who are clearly parented much more closely and have no clue about this stuff. I also know some neighborhood kids that play GTA online every night.
Parenting and children are not monoliths, and anecdotes aren't truths for everyone.
Do you think most kids by the age of 12, haven't seen any porn, at all?
I know lots of neighborhood kids who are clearly patented much more closely and have no clue about this stuff.
You then know a lot of neighborhood kids who have lied to you about their knowledge of this stuff.
Lovely how so many of you are just settled that all kids are liars and all kids are ruined by the internet and all kids are exposed to porn.
Any other boomerisms from you? Sexist tropes? Bigoted stereotypes?
Yes, all kids (By and large) will lie to authority figures, if they feel they will be punished for a natural behavior they've been conditioned to believe is evil.
And, I never claimed kids are ruined by porn. Period. Internet porn, or otherwise.
they've been conditioned to believe is evil.
Some of the truth is revealed.
Self-fulfilling prophecies are a thing. People struggle to grasp the alternative possibilities.
Most kids aren't homeschooled
Mine have always been in public county schools. We've also moved. They've been in more than one. They have friends from school, from the neighborhood, from other events like sports.
Not everyone's kids are the same. Not everyone kid wants to do or does the same shit.
My ex saw onlyfans as a great way to make a living and express her sexuality after we broke up.
It did not go as well as she thought it would.
It never does.
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