<story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>&amp;gt; it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual&lt;p&gt;it should NOT be noted. Too many good people died in the wars of past centuries to get us to the freedom and liberty we enjoy today to let any fundamentalists dictate what a normal job is and who works it.&lt;p&gt;Sex work is work and if you dislike it you&amp;#x27;d might enjoy Afghanistan these days.</text></item><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms.&lt;p&gt;it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper safeguards) and that these content creators are not stigmatized.</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &amp;quot;PR&amp;quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.&lt;p&gt;I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.&lt;p&gt;People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.&lt;p&gt;And the memes, I think they&amp;#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes -  I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>We should try to read each others&amp;#x27; comments in the most charitable light possible.&lt;p&gt;In this case, I think the friendly way to interpret that comment is as an attempt to anticipate and pre-empt a very common and harmful misconception about sex workers.</text></comment>
<story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>&amp;gt; it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual&lt;p&gt;it should NOT be noted. Too many good people died in the wars of past centuries to get us to the freedom and liberty we enjoy today to let any fundamentalists dictate what a normal job is and who works it.&lt;p&gt;Sex work is work and if you dislike it you&amp;#x27;d might enjoy Afghanistan these days.</text></item><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms.&lt;p&gt;it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper safeguards) and that these content creators are not stigmatized.</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &amp;quot;PR&amp;quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.&lt;p&gt;I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.&lt;p&gt;People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.&lt;p&gt;And the memes, I think they&amp;#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes -  I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>immmmmm</author><text>i know, unfortunately sex work is still highly stigmatized, including in western present cultures.&lt;p&gt;you don&amp;#x27;t need to go as far as afghanistan, i&amp;#x27;m back from eastern europe where my friends from the LGBTQ community are literally being beaten by neo nazi funded by putin.</text></comment>