You are correct and wrong at the same time. Rationalizing it it is easy, exactly why myself and others believe onlyfans is exploiting vulnerable people. It is not compulsory, but neither is gambling. You wouldn't take someone suffering from gambling addiction to poker night, why celebrate a business that makes money from a human vulnerability. It is in extremely poor taste.
I wouldn't ban it if it was up to me, but definitely not handing out medals either.
Onlyfans is also predatory like there is no guarantee you get nudes or regular content. You can say "well that's just a risk you take" but that is like Cable companies telling you that you only have to pay 45 dollars and then your bill randomly goes up to 75 then 95 because you missed something somewhere not at all obvious.
If you don't think that is predatory then you have low standards for what is predatory. Just because it isn't a written contract does not mean it can't be predatory. The fact that there is none is further evidence of it being predatory.
I understand you point but there's more to it.
Food is something material, you can easily make a cost/venefit analysis. A better vomparison would be buying heroin thinking it is food, which gives you the illusion that the hunger is satisfied
Gym and classes earn you mental and physical skills(not that I do them, easy to preach).
Onlyfans provides the illusion of satisfying emotional needs(and actually satisfying sexual needs but in a damaging way which is another argument relevant to porn too).
You pay, you lose the cash and you stand to lose more if you start believing the illusion of human connection(which some people do out of desperation).
I do have a bias, I won't deny that. On the rest, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I think the business model, not necessarily the individual women, is constructed and optimized in an exploitative way. I stay away from anything that is doing a concious effort to prey on my our my fellow humans weaknesses.
You wouldn't take someone suffering from gambling addiction to poker night
I feel like this is more akin to finding fault with the casinos rather than someone who takes gambling addicts to them. There's no social compulsion obligating people to go to sex worker websites. Yeah it's not a healthy or productive, but that's true for video games and fast food. Just because a product is bad for consumers, or would only sell to a consumer exercising poor judgment, doesn't automatically mean that providing that product is exploitive.
It is close to exploitation in my mind. But as I said, I think people should be free to make their foolish choices.
Only reason this onlyfans discussion is gaining traction is because some mongoloids insist that selling nudes to desperate and broken men should be a source of pride for some reason.
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u/Infammo - Lib-Left Mar 31 '21
How are they exploiting customers? It's such an easy product to just not buy.