A new study published in the journal Sexuality & Culture has found that many adolescents in Spain, including those as young as 12, are not only aware of OnlyFans but also see it as a viable and even empowering way to make money. In group discussions with over 160 teenagers, researchers discovered that platforms promoting erotic content are influencing how young people—especially girls—view economic opportunity, self-worth, and sexuality. Teens frequently framed content creation as a personal choice or expression of agency, while minimizing the risks.
I mean, yes. Let’s stop atomizing humans, so we can start to stand and support each other; rather than locking down access, in a way that has a serious detrimental effect on everyone else, and STILL doesn’t solve the problem; and removes an income stream from a load of people.
I mean shit, it takes like what? 10 minutes to download Tor, and start browsing the dark web, where pron of every variety exists, even things highly illegal like live stream of child rape? Yeah, that’s loads better than a teen stumbling onto Porn Hub, amirite?
Shit, even before the internet, kids had lots of access to pron. I remember the magazines being passed around in 7th grade. You know what halted the magazine circulation? Parents being parents, and finding them, and then taking them to add to their own stash. You know what didn’t help a bit? Checking IDs at time of purchase, because kids weren’t buying them at the store anyways.
It’s the same discussion as gun violence in the US. We can try to regulate firearms as much as we like, and it’s STILL not going to put a dent on a problem caused not by unregulated shit, but by the fact that humans are so desperate for things like housing, healthcare, and fighting poverty, it makes more sense to do a drive by then to try to do the “right thing”.
Same with the War on Drugs. The drugs aren’t the problem. The shitty society pushing people to become addicts, and then to treat addicts like criminals is the problem.
I don’t dispute anything you are saying. I think it can coexist with finding the way we handle things strange.
We should support sex workers and not disparage their profession. It’s real work, right? Then maybe we need to accept that our culture is increasingly showing young people it’s a viable profession. Right? My point in bringing up access to porn, was to point out some uncomfortable inconsistencies in how we are treating/thinking about sex workers. Our relationship with porn and sex work has been evolving over the past 30 years. This article is a result. And, as I said before, it’s a big messy thing. It’s inconsistent. And it’s strange how it’s inconsistent.
If we categorically say that sex work is only a job of desperation, that it should be a last choice option, that seems disrespectful to sex workers.
Nothing about our online “discussion” here is well structured. It has all the cliched problems. And I’m not great at it.
My initial post was nonsense, relative to my full feelings on the subject. It was like a clickbait headline.