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.
Sex work is work, but Jesus fuck is it work. I once looked into quitting engineering school to be a dominatrix and while the expected median annual pay was shockingly close at the time, the low ends and the hourly pay for labor done (as opposed to billable hours) made me go back to studying at 4am as I sobbed over what useless fucks I’d been stuck doing a project with.
I think a lot of people have this idea that camming is easy, especially kids who see performance work as just the time on stage. Its why they see youtuber as a great job too. These content creation jobs are mostly high effort sales, where what you’re selling is performances you had to write, perform, and film at a sufficiently professional level as well as doing all the legwork and back of stage work until you can afford to hire someone to do it. Oh and don’t fuck up your taxes, if you manage to actually make money you’re a small business owner. And if the content is sexual you get to have done all that for your job to be understood by most people to be a porn performer. Well, your night job, it’s highly unlikely that you’re making enough for the government to even notice you fucked up your taxes, much less enough to actually live off of
Your comment makes me realise that there’s shit tons of kids seeing those tiktok/insta influenza living a good life doing simple stuff and think they don’t even need to study, not realising the one they see is the tip of the iceberg, only then failed at doing influenza work and also failing in other work as well.
Listen influenza doesn’t need TikTok or insta, though I’m sure they help it spread by reducing vaccination rates
But yeah, kids don’t see that those influencers probably put in a ton of time and a fair bit of money to fake success for a small shot at making it. And that making it isn’t nearly as lucrative as they portray themselves.
And like, I think this is something a lot of parents weren’t prepared to teach their kids. But these jobs are the modern version of being a rockstar, but like with a lot less room at the “filthy rich” part and with less healthy skills than getting really into making music (also without the music tutoring or wedding musician fallbacks). Like, these kids aren’t trying en masse to be high research video essayists like Hbomberguy. But much like with trying to be a rockstar, most will not study while they treat it as a serious hobby thinking that that’ll get them somewhere.
Listen influenza doesn’t need TikTok or insta, though I’m sure they help it spread by reducing vaccination rates
I’m pretty sure it’s a portmanteau of affluenza and influencer. It’s similar to this phenomenon, but not semantic, rather morphological.
I didn’t initially catch that but that’s really amusing.
It took 5 minutes to watch, what do you mean it takes more than 5 minutes to make?
Honestly, taking a class in high school on videography was really good for me, and it and drama would be good outlets for these kids. Video editing can be fun and learning how to translate camera work and physical things into what you want to see on screen is fun and creatively satisfying. And as someone who regrets not doing drama in school, I think a lot of them could use the outlet and discipline that come from doing theatrical productions and public speaking.
Hell, if I was a high school teacher I’d possibly even consider doing something as socially irresponsible as teaching a class on podcasting that involves doing research, writing a script, performing/recording it, and doing audio editing to tidy it up and synch two or three voices. Might kill a lot of enthusiasm and also make some kid realize they actually find vocal performance or av or research satisfying.
I’m honestly not shocked at all. My 5 year old who gets extremely limited exposure to YouTube has already said that she wants to make gaming videos for a living (she also regularly says she wants to work at her favorite fast food restaurant, so I guess I’ll take it haha)
Teenagers who fantasize about their body image and making (what they think is) easy money?
Shocking! I wonder where they have seen this.
It’s (sadly) the new version of “being a top model”.
It’s never the parents’…
Man, Spain really needs to get closer to its Muslim roots, lol. Wtf. Let’s just hope it’s not as bad as this article implies.
Mohammed married a 9 year-old child; whatever other benefits you envision, I don’t think that religion is a model of the solution here.
Regardless of the veracity of that statement, follow/worship the message, not the person. You read the Qur’an and tell me what you disagree with!
edit: Fell for the oldest trick in the book - quoted Christianity labeled as Islam. Guess what? Christianity isn’t the solution here either, it’s equally repulsive.
You read the Qur’an and tell me what you disagree with!
I don’t typically waste my time with fairy stories, but sure, I’ll give you a few: I disagree with the paedophilia and child marriage, first and foremost, and I think it’s weird as fuck that you’ll just skate over that as though it’s not relevant in a story about children aspiring to sex work. I also disagree with the idea of cutting off someone’s hands for theft, as another example.
Most people would probably list honour killings, but those aren’t actually part of Islam, it’s a leftover from the prior culture, so I won’t list it here and am instead explicitly calling it out as not being part of the religion for anyone who might not know. I not only don’t want to spread misinformation, I want to combat it.
So yeah, I stand by that maybe it’s time to retire that catchphrase, bud. There’s plenty to disagree with in any religious text, the Qur’an is no different.
Worth pointing out that these quotes are all biblical, also.
No arguments from me, but nobody so far has suggested Christianity would help the situation, so I fail to see the relevance.
I just wouldn’t want any passing Christians thinking their book was any better.
Oh, it definitely isn’t. What’s really funny about this though, is those verses aren’t Biblical “too”, they’re just Biblical. I got played 😅 That’s okay though, the point stands.
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What exactly are you reading?! And there’s no Surah 135! Are you being a conscious troublemaker or are you just misinformed?
Misinformed. Someone probably thought they were making a point by labeling Biblical verses as from the Qur’an; unfortunately, violence and misogyny and paedophilia is not limited to the Abrahamic religions. I’ll update my original post so it doesn’t contain that misinformation.
Ohhh. Either way, as long as we’re acting righteously (Muhammad’s “believers”), minor ideological discrepancies should be tolerated!
Fucking and marrying children is not a minor ideological discrepancy, and it should not be tolerated or excused
That bit about banning pork and alcohol is fucking bullshit.
Eh, not really. Trichinosis is very much real and, before people could reliably check the temperature of the meat being cooked, “a pork chop could kill you!” (Chris Rock in some early 00s special, lol). Today, it’s mostly a sign of belonging, and ‘proves’ you can restrain yourself at least a little from all and every pleasure. And I stand by an alcohol prohibition, or at least being wary of its consumption. I’ve never met a single person who wouldn’t be an overall better human being if they simply stopped drinking/relying on it to handle situations, emotions and thoughts instead of approaching them soberly. You can tell me you enjoy booze (ofc!), but you can’t tell me in earnest it’s eudaimonically ‘good for you’.
and now that we know what is bad about pork they’ve revised their beliefs right?
that’s the problem with religion: some rules were made thousands of years ago for a society that looked completely different and whose only way of dealing with the world was to make up myths to explain things they don’t know
this is not applicable to modern society… you say spain should embrace their muslim roots, but why? morality isn’t inherent to religion, and id argue a lot of religion is inherently immoral - or at least, a lot of organised religion and religious people are very immoral compared to many atheists who approach these things from a “but why” perspective rather than a “because god said” perspective
solve problems; don’t apply blanket rules that often don’t make sense
Because the well of Christianity has been poisoned since the time of the Romans and the West hasn’t produced anything to replace religion competently. And who does the pork ban/dislike hurt? Definitely not pigs! And God puts it on the same level as eating raw blood and carrion: it’s bad for you, bodily wise, not morally. And if you can’t even restrict yourself to not eat ONE of all the animals in the world, what will you control? Lol. Most of the Qur’an is nothing but moral precepts, and objective morality kinda does require the belief in God’s objective right and wrong judgements. Moral relativity is a plague in the West because they cannot even conceive the fact that some things are good and to be sought and others are bad and to be avoided. But no, the Western man thinks anything can go, it’s just ‘cultural differences’ and ‘don’t stop me, this is my life!’ (doesn’t believe in a Day of Judgment and doesn’t care about their impact in others life).
The best advice I can give you is to read the Qur’an assuming most of what you’ve learned is nothing but wind. Your soul is in your hands, I did my part today.
same level as eating raw blood and carrion: it’s bad for you
is it actually though? sources to prove it’s as bad as eating carrion please
if you can’t even restrict yourself to not eat ONE of all the animals in the world
completely false equivalence. i can if there’s a reason. if there’s no reason, why would i? and more importantly: why should anyone be able to push that opinion on anyone else… religion or not
objective morality kinda does require the belief in God’s objective right and wrong judgements
abbbbsolute bullshit… my morality comes from my existence in this world being a positive, or at least neutral one to other people… the huge majority of religion has caused pain and hardship for untold numbers of humanity… if that’s your “objective morality” then you should reexamine your philosophy from the ground up
me, i don’t build my morality on what anyone else says - that’s how you lead to controlling bullshit like sex is bad, a woman’s place is in the home, etc… THAT is religious morality
meanwhile you’re berating people for being immoral because they don’t follow your specific idea of what’s moral… what was that you said about “doesn’t care about their impact in others life”?
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