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Sex work is called the oldest profession for a reason. There are some basic human urges you can't suppress by banning them - religions have tried for a few tho

Sex work is called the oldest profession for a reason. There are some basic human urges you can't suppress by banning them - religions have tried for a few thousand years, and they can't keep even their _priests_ in check, never mind the regular believers. Should sex work be regulated? Definitely. Can it be banned? No.

dartharva 2y ago
Onlyfans is not sex work, it is infinitely more sinister. Most "models" there sell facades of human contact to the extremely deprived who have nowhere else to go to. It is adjacent to drug sellers selling to homeless street beggars and turning them into perpetual miserable cash cows.
- theshrike79 2y ago
  How is a Cosplayer selling their photos and videos on Onlyfans "more sinister" than selling the same content on a different platform?
  - poloniculmov 2y ago
    They're selling a fake relationship and taking advantage of lonely people. Sellling porno flicks is much more honest.
brabel 2y ago
In Sweden, the ban is on men (or anyone, but almost only men in practice) looking for paid sexual encounters. As a woman (or man), you're free to sell sex. But if you pay someone for sex, you're committing an offence and can get jail time. The implicit assumption is that only someone in a very vulnerable position would sell their bodies (or worse, be forced into doing that by very bad people), and hence they don't deserve punishment, they just need help to get into a better situation. This solution basically means law-abiding citizens who suffer from mental or physical conditions that make it virtually impossible to find a voluntary, willing sex partner are going to be cut off from being able to enjoy sexual pleasures for their whole lives. I suppose that this (and the fact of knowing this) may cause their condition to worsen significantly. In practice, those who can just go to Germany or the Netherlands to use a legal prostitute, or Thailand (for example) if they want a long term partner. Those who can't are left to their own devices. Unfortunately, comparing figures about sexual crime between countries is notoriously difficult, so it's not possible to make a clearcut case for whether that impacts , but it's not hard to imagine there may be a correlation. Anyway, I wonder how the Swedish system sees Onlyfans. Does it consider the men who are buying these services from the "vulnerable models" the bad guys in this story? Should they be punished? Do they believe only vulnerable women are on Onlyfans, and that most of them probably were forced into it by some bad men? I honestly want to know what they are thinking.
- dartharva 2y ago
  Very similar for India. Prostitution is legal, but every way of actually obtaining their services isn't.

dartharva 2y ago

Onlyfans is not sex work, it is infinitely more sinister. Most "models" there sell facades of human contact to the extremely deprived who have nowhere else to go to. It is adjacent to drug sellers selling to homeless street beggars and turning them into perpetual miserable cash cows.

theshrike79 2y ago
How is a Cosplayer selling their photos and videos on Onlyfans "more sinister" than selling the same content on a different platform?
- poloniculmov 2y ago
  They're selling a fake relationship and taking advantage of lonely people. Sellling porno flicks is much more honest.

brabel 2y ago

In Sweden, the ban is on men (or anyone, but almost only men in practice) looking for paid sexual encounters. As a woman (or man), you're free to sell sex. But if you pay someone for sex, you're committing an offence and can get jail time. The implicit assumption is that only someone in a very vulnerable position would sell their bodies (or worse, be forced into doing that by very bad people), and hence they don't deserve punishment, they just need help to get into a better situation. This solution basically means law-abiding citizens who suffer from mental or physical conditions that make it virtually impossible to find a voluntary, willing sex partner are going to be cut off from being able to enjoy sexual pleasures for their whole lives. I suppose that this (and the fact of knowing this) may cause their condition to worsen significantly. In practice, those who can just go to Germany or the Netherlands to use a legal prostitute, or Thailand (for example) if they want a long term partner. Those who can't are left to their own devices. Unfortunately, comparing figures about sexual crime between countries is notoriously difficult, so it's not possible to make a clearcut case for whether that impacts , but it's not hard to imagine there may be a correlation. Anyway, I wonder how the Swedish system sees Onlyfans. Does it consider the men who are buying these services from the "vulnerable models" the bad guys in this story? Should they be punished? Do they believe only vulnerable women are on Onlyfans, and that most of them probably were forced into it by some bad men? I honestly want to know what they are thinking.

dartharva 2y ago
Very similar for India. Prostitution is legal, but every way of actually obtaining their services isn't.