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OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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Interesting I read yesterday that OnlyFans started banning for nudes and is refunding customers. Some models lost thousands of dollars. Running porn site requires a lot of paperwork and is relatively risky.

Wasn't that their main cash cow and essentially the only reason for their business to exist? I've never heard of that company in SFW contexts - that's Patreon's territory.

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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post #7

Interesting I read yesterday that OnlyFans started banning for nudes and is refunding customers. Some models lost thousands of dollars. Running porn site requires a lot of paperwork and is relatively risky.

Do you have a citation for this?

My SO is a camgirl with an onlyfans. She's transitioned from mostly live streaming on MFC to mostly doing shoots and vids for OnlyFans. OnlyFans has become a substantial part of her income.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We know already where it heads - to young men being radicalized to hate everyone who isn't like them (i.e. not young, male, angry, usually white, usually straight).

I observe this to be a narrative that many are pushing, but I don't see it anywhere IRL or even the proverbial data. I suspect they just fall out of statistics and into depression.

Narrative? Yes yes, because 99.9% of white christian american terrorists are women. /s Were you born today?

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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post #7

Interesting I read yesterday that OnlyFans started banning for nudes and is refunding customers. Some models lost thousands of dollars. Running porn site requires a lot of paperwork and is relatively risky.

Wasn't that their main cash cow and essentially the only reason for their business to exist? I've never heard of that company in SFW contexts - that's Patreon's territory.

It was originally for cosplayers and models, very very soft-core, not porn.

Platform is liable if it is offering prostitution (google "Craigslist controversy"). Only Fans has zero paperwork for this in their disclaimers. I am not a lawyer, but I think they are in gray area.

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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My opinion: Porn is the new drug. Our daughters are the dealers and our sons are the users. Sex addiction fueled by free internet porn has ruined countless lives. At least OnlyFans is behind a paywall, keeping it out of view of children.

Sex addiction fueled by free internet porn has ruined countless lives.

I would like to see a citation on this.

Moral panics around sexuality are at least a couple centuries old, and technologies that are said to have contributed to or created them include the printing press, radio, the bicycle, the car, TV, movies, magazines, and now the Internet. For many of the earlier technologies, Gay Talese's book Thy Neighbor's Wife has a serviceable overview of the moral panics.

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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My opinion: Porn is the new drug. Our daughters are the dealers and our sons are the users. Sex addiction fueled by free internet porn has ruined countless lives. At least OnlyFans is behind a paywall, keeping it out of view of children.

What makes you think porn is new?

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, not to strip naked on the internet. There was a great paper that came out recently demonstrating the value of men's sexuality is negative (vs that of women). Men don't possess anything intrinsically valuable or desirable. There is no fallback. I too wonder what this will mean for (young) men, who have already been pushed down a dark path.

We know already where it heads - to young men being radicalized to hate everyone who isn't like them (i.e. not young, male, angry, usually white, usually straight).

This would’ve been a good comment if you had left out the part in the parentheses.

I’d say it’s more of a class thing. They will be angry at the the ruling class and wealthy. I don’t think they are going to be taking it out on old ladies...

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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This was among my first thoughts when the first unemployment report came out. We are sending our daughters to OnlyFans. Still not sure where our sons end up.

With the potential for anonymity and digital-only connections, OnlyFans is a big improvement over prostitution, strip clubs, or crushing poverty.

As always, the core issue is economic insecurity, not human sexuality.

Re: OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

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As I read some women in the article are making as much as a talented ivy league graduate who joins a tech company.

It seems amoral to prevent them from making money, why don't we see it as a talent as we see "tech jobs" as talent?

Can it really do more damage than what tech companies specially one who pedal ads and sell customer data and give people anxiety?

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