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Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

Also, sex work is work and Only Fans was a great platform for sex workers. They will have to find another place to host their content.

The legitimisation of porn/sex work as "normal work" leads countless thousands of teenage girls and young women down a route that many of them end up regretting and with a myriad of mental health implications. They see these messages everywhere that it's a normal and empowering way to make money and at 18 years old they don't have the understanding, introspection or foresight to understand how they're going to feel about it by the time they're 30 (spoiler: for most, the answer is "not very good"). On top of that, legitimizing the culture of men (usually older men) leering at women (usually younger women) in exchange for cash is not empowering in the slightest, it's normalisation of the toxic commoditisation of women's bodies. There is literally nothing good about any of it, other than that some people make a living from it, for a short period of time, and then end up depressed and with few real career prospects other than actual prostitution because by the time they hit 25 their "fans" will have moved onto the latest 18 year old. The whole thing is so gross it actually makes me furious... the TikTok girl -> onlyfans -> next TikTok girl conveyor belt is an absolute disaster.

Absolutely no judgement on the women by the way; I fully understand why they're tempted into it. If you'd told me I could get naked on webcam at 18 and make a 6-figure-plus salary I'd have been right on there. In fact that's part of what concerns me. I didn't give a **** at that age. Eventually, you start to give a ****.

I'm also under no illusions that sex work can be eliminated because the world is what it is (i.e. often grim). But I completely reject the notion that it's in any way "empowering"... a sad illusion that serves no one but the consumer. I believe that makes me a "SWERF"? hard to hear I suppose, for those involved in the industry and the slimes who are paying for it. The ones who would actually care if they thought it was exploitative anyway. Which isn't many of them.

100% happy judging the people paying for it. Pondlife.