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

Post by fsociety » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

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Trading personality for employing unearned traits to get through life sounds like a bad deal. I can perform masculinity to top standards and bullshit my way through life, but then I'd lose myself. I doubt it's any different for AFAB people who lucked into good looks and wished they could thrive on merit.

Thank you for commenting. I was quite beautiful when I was younger. I was also molested and raped and told it was my fault for being too beautiful to resist. I considered becoming a model at one time. I also was one of the top students of my graduating class, won a National Merit Scholarship to one of the two most prestigious universities in my home state and had other academic accolades. My beauty seems to have been…

Post by cmdshiftf4 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:52 PM UTC

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>But what message does this send to girls who are not considered attractive enough or just don't want to do this kind of work? Here's where the real damage gets done - women flock to onlyfans as they find it to be an easy way to sell their looks / body for money. They initially get interest and some (or a lot) of money. More beautiful girls join onlyfans, subscribers change and now you're left with yesterday's onlyfa…

Imagine being a kid today and school bullies finding your mother's old OnlyFans pictures.

Post by MuffinFlavored » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:53 PM UTC

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> There is absolutely zero ethically or morally wrong with someone selling sex, or buying sex from someone else. That's an insanely modern/left view with zero consideration to basically all historically socially accepted conservative views of the past. It's trendy to support sex workers online in 2020 but in the 2000s I'm pretty sure 95% of white suburbia wouldn't have wanted their daughters hanging out with sex work…

Can you explain what is morally wrong with buying or selling sex? I’m not “trendy”, it’s a deeply held philosophical belief about individual freedom.

Post by MuffinFlavored » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #147

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> There is absolutely zero ethically or morally wrong with someone selling sex, or buying sex from someone else. That's an insanely modern/left view with zero consideration to basically all historically socially accepted conservative views of the past. It's trendy to support sex workers online in 2020 but in the 2000s I'm pretty sure 95% of white suburbia wouldn't have wanted their daughters hanging out with sex work…

>That's an insanely modern/left view with zero consideration to basically all historically socially accepted conservative views of the past. No, not every culture in history has been saddled with the Judeo-Christian prejudice against women and their sexuality. Also, historically socially accepted "conservative" views include slavery, rule by divine right, child labor and trial by combat. A view having been held and t…

Post by DoreenMichele » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

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But what message does this send to girls I think the larger problem is the degree to which men refuse to engage women in a substantive intellectual fashion. I appear to be the highest ranked woman on HN. I've been here over a decade. It continues to be the case that most men don't really want to talk much with me unless they are hitting on me. This has proven to be a huge barrier to effective networking and a huge ba…

I don't mean to be personal or rude - I only say this because someone said it to me once and it helped me. Your experiences in comment threads are often a reflection of what YOU write. Hostile people get hostility, humble people often get humbleness in return. Looking at this comment thread, some of the problems you mention in this comment have come up and perhaps it's worth considering whether that is due to how you…