Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter?

[DGUtley]

Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter?

Discrimination against sex work has become a flashpoint for advocates of freedom of expression and economic rights

WHEN ONLYFANS DECLARED on August 19, 2021, that it would soon ban porn from its platform, it seemed an unusual, even baffling, move. The subscription and pay-per-view service is home to a range of content creators, including fitness experts, chefs, celebrities, and musicians. But it ultimately became a household phenomenon by connecting audiences directly to porn creators for everything from lingerie shoots to hard-core fetish clips. Following the ban announcement, creators flocked to social media in confusion and concern. Memes predicted a swift demise for the company betraying the very user base that had made it famous. Less than a week later, OnlyFans rolled back its decision. As one Twitter user put it: “banning porn? psh, those were OnlyPlans.” It seemed a win for sex workers, but the dust-up hints at a more troubling story: the routine financial discrimination against millions of precarious workers.


In an interview with the Financial Times, OnlyFans founder and CEO Tim Stokely blamed the chaos on corporate struggles, including the frequent refusal by major banks to process its transactions or host associated accounts. Such obstacles have fed the platform’s anxieties about its long-term profitability. Despite a user base of over 130 million, OnlyFans has failed to attract venture capital. Its association with adult content would appear to be scaring off investors and financial institutions, likely thanks to American evangelical lobby groups that have succeeded in conflating legal pornography with sex trafficking and child abuse through a number of baseless claims. These religious crusaders generate op-eds, organize social media campaigns, fund antiporn documentaries, and, most recently, have put intense pressure on payment processors to financially discriminate against porn performers.


For Rebecca Sullivan, a pornography studies scholar at the University of Calgary, the relentless moralizing is a smokescreen for regressive politics. “Sex work is not uniquely degrading,” she says. “It is simply a job.”




https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-sex-wor...carlet-letter/

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In an interview with the Financial Times, OnlyFans founder and CEO Tim Stokely blamed the chaos on corporate struggles, including the frequent refusal by major banks to process its transactions or host associated accounts. Such obstacles have fed the platform’s anxieties about its long-term profitability. Despite a user base of over 130 million, OnlyFans has failed to attract venture capital. Its association with adult content would appear to be scaring off investors and financial institutions, likely thanks to American evangelical lobby groups that have succeeded in conflating legal pornography with sex trafficking and child abuse through a number of baseless claims.

I presume this is a reference to the discovery of child performers on OnlyFans and videos on PornHub showing the actual rape of children thanks to survivors coming forward and demanding their removal and groups like Exodus Cry responding by supporting them and with calls for these leading pornographers to be consequently de-monetized. Baseless indeed.

Worse, Webber continues, these policies pointedly target a workforce composed largely of women and trans and $#@! folks.

This is a form of self-parody, right? One wonders if she's ever taken a moment to ask WHY women from poor, abusive, and marginalized backgrounds compose the overwhelming majority of prostitutes and strippers and porn performers and so on. Are women just naturally more interested in casual sex than men or something? Because I mean that's not what the data says about who has more partners in the course of their lives suggests. No people, the sex industry is heavily female because $#@!ability is the main thing our society values in women, and that valuation begins by puberty, not the age of legal consent. THAT is the sex discrimination going on here.

[DGUtley]

I'd read about pornhub, not OF.

[carolina73]

I was wondering how this works and found a little bit

https://ideausher.com/blog/only-fans...onlyfans-work/

I don't see any claims of illegal activity except from the feminist and religious right. I see no stories from unbiased sources.

[IMPress Polly]

I was wondering how this works and found a little bit

https://ideausher.com/blog/only-fans...onlyfans-work/

I don't see any claims of illegal activity except from the feminist and religious right. I see no stories from unbiased sources.

How about the New York Times or Forensic magazine then?

[Standing Wolf]

What next? Will we be told that Onlyfans should be considered a public utility, and forced by law to host pornography?

[donttread]

I presume this is a reference to the discovery of child performers on OnlyFans and videos on PornHub showing the actual rape of children thanks to survivors coming forward and demanding their removal and groups like Exodus Cry responding by supporting them and with calls for these leading pornographers to be consequently de-monetized. Baseless indeed.



This is a form of self-parody, right? One wonders if she's ever taken a moment to ask WHY women from poor, abusive, and marginalized backgrounds compose the overwhelming majority of prostitutes and strippers and porn performers and so on. Are women just naturally more interested in casual sex than men or something? Because I mean that's not what the data says about who has more partners in the course of their lives suggests. No people, the sex industry is heavily female because $#@!ability is the main thing our society values in women, and that valuation begins by puberty, not the age of legal consent. THAT is the sex discrimination going on here.

I wouldn't go that far but men are extremely visual and female looks sells everything from porn to endless products. Not that women are immune, Clark Gable wasn't an average looking man for example. But men just tune out if a show doesn't provide some skin, women are often the ones who throw the labels out.
From $#@! to prude based upon how she dresses. At least that's my experience in office life.
But not all types of sex work are create equal and I'm guessing that Only Fans is not as dominated by troubled women as prostitution is.
But we can't stop it, it might as well be legal with some protections

[Cletus]

What next? Will we be told that Onlyfans should be considered a public utility, and forced by law to host pornography?

Why not? "Public Accommodation" laws and all that? Why should it be okay to discriminate against pornographers but not other people a business doesn't want to serve?

See how stupid those laws are and how they themselves are discriminatory?

[Retirednsmilin308]

What next? Will we be told that Onlyfans should be considered a public utility, and forced by law to host pornography?

Who in their right mind would pay for porn in this day & age. It is everywhere...(yawn)

Pay for hookers...sure...but not porn. That is dumb.
As dumb as going to a strip club and paying to NOT TOUCH.
Some men are ever so foolish when they think with their other head.