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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by jfup »

adamcharnock wrote: post #622
andy_ppp wrote: post #614

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. I didn’t say old, maybe you misread? 2. I think I’m suggesting some men (the most obsessive and biggest spenders?) would use onlyfans instead of having a relationship. I’m not saying it’s right that a proportion of men become obsessive but it happens right? 3. I’d say a lot of men don’t make rational choices about sex.

1. That’s embarrassing, you’re absolutely right 2 & 3. I agree that a lot of men don’t think rationally about sex, and I think that has various societal causes. But I also think that is the problem here, and that possible obsessive OF use is one of the more minor symptoms.

>a lot of men don’t think rationally about sex, and I think that has various societal causes

Really? I don't think so. My understanding is that sexual activity (or lack thereof) affects hormonal balance and that in turn affects mood. To make a very blunt example, if someone isn't getting any and the fake interaction provided by OF makes them feel better, do we really need to look for a societal explanation? If I give you a painful but harmless electric shock and you try desperately to get away, do I need to posit that it's because you've been culturally conditioned to be afraid of electric shocks?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by abnercoimbre »

the_lonely_road wrote: post #631
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #337

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Reminds me of all the politicians who were anti-LGBT until one of their kids came out and then they miraculously flip flop.

It works I’m reverse as well. The owner of a socialist magazine just recently fired most of his staff for trying to unionize. He wrote a bunch of articles purporting to support all these ideals but the moment those ideals threatened his power he shut it down.

Whoa I'd be very interested to read more about this, if possible.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by midev »

robbrown451 wrote: post #509
zdragnar wrote: post #382

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Free speech, separation of church and state has nothing to do with it. Not wanting to be associated with rape, child and revenge porn (variations on non-consent) is all it is. User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about (consent in particular) and as long as the user submitted content is sexual in nature, it is legal plutonium.

I don't see how a payment processor is "being associated" with the content. Deciding whether that sort of thing is happening really shouldn't be their purview.

> I don't see how a payment processor is "being associated" with the content

They are literally facilitating the transaction.... Handling payments which determine access to the content is very much "being associated".

> Deciding whether that sort of thing is happening really shouldn't be their purview.

That is their purview. Who they choose to process payments for, and the various rates based on content and risk, is the entire purpose of their business.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by midev »

zokula wrote: post #516
smt88 wrote: post #341

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I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site, but let's not kid ourselves about PornHub. It was mostly pirated content with a lot of videos of people being harmed.

Nobody was being harmed on Pornhub. Don't feed the lying anti-sex work media.

You are grossly misinformed. So much so I have to wonder why. PornHub JUST took down 600k videos of minors and consensual acts. https://www.engadget.com/pornhub-first-transparency-report-1...

Either you're commenting without being informed, or you're intentionally lying. Either way, you are harming people.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Y_Y »

lijogdfljk wrote: post #630
TameAntelope wrote: post #616

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I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention. I wish I knew what percentage of submissions were in NSFW subreddits, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the majority. Maybe it's because they're not trying to make money off of it? I don't think they run ads on NSFW subreddits. I wonder if there's a market for something like how strip clubs…

> I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention. I suspect they're working in the same direction, no? For example a few months back they removed NSFW from /r/all. They didn't just make it user-config'd SFW by default, to my knowledge you cannot browse NSFW content on /r/all. So they sort of ghosted that entire genre on their site. Maybe they…

There was all kinds of nsfw (including porn) stuff on r/all this morning for me.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by saurik »

moonchrome wrote: post #340
perardi wrote: post #207

Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for side income, some for a substantial portion of their livelihood. And to see that get taken away because the payment processors want them to fall in line…I guess I’m on the crypto…

If crypto was actually a viable alternative they wouldn't be doing this. I'm not against the promises of crypto - but the tech so far has failed to deliver anything but a platform to streamline illegal activity, asset speculation bubbles and a whole bunch of wasted energy/hardware along with reliving the problems people had historically with bank fraud in free banking and the likes (banks printing their own notes wit…

So, here is the core problem: if you want to do this on mobile... how? You can't do the actual payment parts securely using just a web browser--if you think about it that kind of undermines the whole concept for a lot of people: you would need to host that website somewhere--and then crypto wallets that support dapps and payment processing tend to get banned by Apple, because they provide a way to bypass their cut for services using an app (even if that app is just a browser) :/.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by smt88 »

Tenoke wrote: post #429
smt88 wrote: post #359

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Even if OF could accept crypto, they'd still need an off-ramp back into fiat. They can't operate only on crypto, even just stablecoins, which is itself the indictment of crypto.

There's plenty of services for that - e.g. Coinbase has an enterprise one for that use case.

They need a bank no matter what. They can't do payroll in stablecoins.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by trident5000 »

tootie wrote: post #217
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

OF is a creator platform at heart and not necessarily tied to sexually explicit content except by reputation. There is a likely a huge non-porn market for helping creators of all types monetize their content. The question will be if they can actually get people to completely change their mind about what the platform is for.

OF is thot central.
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