On the OnlyFans situation

Aug 20, 2021 1:58 PM

Saw this thread on Twitter talking about the whole thing. Found it quite revealing. Figured I'd share it here.

Link: https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/1428584131835748359?s=19

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Not gonna lie, that was really interesting, thank you

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A David Tennant OnlyFans ?

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Hooray for actual information!

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I really recommend people read the NYT article referenced. It's an important read. IMO it's unfair to use it as a crux for the argument here

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That’s what everyone who’s read into this says. I don’t trust Twitter at all.

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It's also great to keep it in mind for the next few weeks, and everytime the topic is mentioned, show off superior knowledge.

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TL;DR

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Meh even big companies took a blow, good thing pornhub purge all their videos because I doubt they can afford the server space anymore.

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Onlyfans really should have had the verifications in from the start, taking advantage while they could

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They do. It's a long process too. But with MCs new rules they'd have to vet each and every new piece of content.

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Ah, thanks for the info

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They'd also have to watch all live streams fully, to ensure nothing illegal ever went on. Naturally, this is unfeasible.

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As much as I hate the Christian narrative, I have cringed too many times on pornhub with videos that feel like the girl is doing it against

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her will. As in every divisive matter, I'm expecting this to become highly political with few to none real solutions.

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It is a fetish to some, which only makes it all the more controversial

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Sick & tired of American conservatives. They're a bane on the entire planet.

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Not just conservatives for this, Americans in general are still extremely uptight about sex.

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It's honestly kind of astounding sometimes.. I'm pretty reserved in many ways, but GOD the puritanism sure still runs strong over there.

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...but created the most sexualized media landscape on the globe at the same time... like... wtf?

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So, conservative.

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I will sit here and talk about all and any sex you want you soppy vagina. Americans arent anything in general other than human. Racist fuck

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Hi, United States citizen born and bred here. “American” isn’t a race. We’re the biggest melting pot in the world soooo, simma dahn nah.

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you mean nationalist?

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I'm American you dumb fuck

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Taking away legitimate ways of doing this work doesn't stop it, just sends it further underground away from regulations that keep it safe!

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Holy shit it's almost like prohibition never works. Just creates black markets

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And that's ok with the conservatives that want it gone. The less safe it is the happier they are, it allows them to say it isn't safe

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Just like with abortion laws.

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Yeah we are really regressing to stone age of old farts banning sex. Meanwhile real child pedophiles like Trump and Gaetz are not in jail

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trump is a bellend, i agree. but your saying hes a peodophile now. source? or just another bs claim?

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He was credibly accused of raping a 13 year old and deeply connected to Epstein. Google it.

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accused is not guilty. When the left realise this, they have a great chance to actually chamge things

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…you really must be young. there’s more erotic material available to more people for free than at any time in history so that’s not true

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It’s time to boycott MasterCard and visa! Oh…wait… goddamnit. They’re about 70% of all global card transactions

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Pornhub could release their own payment processing service. There’s enough adult content to get that off the ground.

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If only they'd done that before burning it all down. Little point now, except maybe as an act to save others from their fate?

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Duopoly. Worse than monopoly.

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Visa hasn't threatened OnlyFans yet, they DID actively participate is causing the PornHub situation though, didn't they?

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Theoretically they can get fucked for 10% of their yearly profits if they're caught processing payment for illegal porn so they prob will.

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Only 70%? The only other card provider in the U.K. is Amex, and they’re a bit player. Is the rest of the world radically different?

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China uses mostly apps like WeChat. I needed to install it when I was there because a lot of vendors didn't even accept credit cards.

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How do you get your money into WeChat?

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The market concentration ratio of these near monopolies are wild

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Def varies by country. I’ve worked in finance and these figures check. This number came from Google search but links to the research report

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As a European. I never use one. Paypal and my Bank card do all I need. I know PayPal isn't great either. But what do you need it for?

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PayPal is even worse; it won't do business with any sex-related content at all. It's full prude.

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I've only ever had two bank cards in europe, and one was issued by Mastercard, the other by Visa, so I don't even know what else is there.

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I use a so called Girocard (formerly EC) and you can pay in pretty much every store with it. I think it's a German state run thing as far1/2

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As I know Neither visa or MasterCard have there hand in it, but I might be obvious to it 2/2

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According to wikipedia they're co-branded with both Visa and Mastercard, so they might have issues if they went against them.

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Debit cards are much less likely to come with zero fraud liability policies, which leaves you more vulnerable to financial losses /

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/if debit card fraud occurs.

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"haha I knew you'd come around" - BitCoin

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this is the point of decentralized finance. Visa could say "nah" and kill a business... should they be that powerful?

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You can pay for things with bitcoin, and they even got a card payment system now.

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Yeah, no. This burnt porridge is bad, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna switch to eating dried shit.

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"Oh yeah I bought $1000 in BitCoin ! But what I am gonna do with those $1347 ? I should really think on how to invest those $428 !"

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Bitcoin is horrible for the environment and it is not money.

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Fluctuates too much to be a real currency. I spent $30 on drugs 10 years ago. Would’ve been worth tens of thousands at its peak. Still mad

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Kristof is such a piece of shit, glad people are finally calling him out for stuff like this.

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Asking for a friend.....Are there any ethical porn sites?

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Nope because the very profit motive guarantees exploitation.

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"Traffickinghub"? Sounds like a sketchy version of pornhub.

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I’m still trying to figure out why dudes aren’t just beating off for free.

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You'd think we'd have learned from prohibition and the war on drugs that trying to ban these things only makes them move underground.

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When the real lesson is that you cant trust people without education to make the right choices for their health, physical or mental

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…but nothing has been banned.

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Law teacher here. Until there’s evidence that these changes aren’t working (literally been less than a year), I’m all for these changes.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

legal sex work is important, but so is keeping our kids safe front trafficking, and most of it is from porn so why not start there?

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Choosing between “online freedom” and lowering demand for trafficking porn is a no brainer

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I’m going to put this out there…you don’t have to be pro-porn or prostitution to be sex positive.

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I get it, but nobody is being punished. MC is distancing itself from an industry where exploitation is known, but that cant/wont address it.

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This change will only hurt the industry and punish the independent and armature creators. This is exactly what you do if.you want more

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That’s their entire point

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Sex trafficking, not less. Now armature creators will be forced to go to sketchy "studios" to try and get paid for content.

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I know you meant "amateur creators," but "armature creators being forced to go to sketchy studios" is too good to complain about.

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it's long way of saying sculptor.

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That's... intentional. The groups doing this want porn to become as shady as possible so they can put a blanket ban into law w/o resistance.

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Just as the Rapeublican party wants.

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This! Exactly.

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Or build their own platforms.

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And get paid how? :) payment processors will deny them the rooms required to take payments.

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Wasn’t crypto invented for this sort of thing? Make a multi-pass porn card. Blackjack and hookers, etc.

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Honestly it would be the best bet, but AFAIK there's no easy way to do recurring payments with BTC or ETH. Though it looks like there 1/2

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No. If you post your own content only, that would mean you moderate the content, thus abiding my the rules.

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But then they (payment processor) have to do that work too. Or you, as a content creator will have to provide proof of records.

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Cryptocurrency is a viable alternative.

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I think you are wildly overestimating the adoption rate of cryptocurrencies.

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What about a cooperative model? They do it for commodities (think Green Giant, Ocean Spray, etc.) Work could still be performed off-site.

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PayPal.

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PayPal uses payment processors, incl Mastercard on the backend, so no.

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PayPal hates sex workers and will lock their accounts out of the blue.

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I don’t know. Prohibition didn’t lead to better crime.

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i mean. stock car racing would tend to disagree but maybe you just forgot the /s

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You forgot the /s

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This comment is hilarious either way you ment this. I'm either laughing with this great joke, or at this incredibly ignorant statement. Lol

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Verifying people in sex videos is absolutely necessary to reduce sex trafficking. The counterargument is that the lobbyists are Christians?

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This is fucking infuriating. And of course uncritical internet dipshits are playing into the misinformation by creating memes blaming OF.

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This is Imgur, no time for critical research, just emotional reactions based on very little info.

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OF has a lot of the blame on this. It all began with an investigation that found they were bad at moderating some illegal content. It was

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People that had worked in moderation at OF that spoke out.

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Interesting. I would have thought it was just too much unmonitored CP and revenge porn.

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It kinda is. This tweet thread is fully correct. The real story is that BBC discovered they were bad at moderating some illegal content

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That's what they want you to think. Truth be told, CP and Revenge Porn is less than 0.1% content out there. CP is traded on "the dark web"

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Ok but 0.1% of the content is still a HUGE amount.

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And Facebook is a far bigger distributor of them that nobody dares to attack

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Children have been making money selling illegal sexually explicit content. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57255983 This isn't "dark web" shit.

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This is misleading bullshit. The Kristof article mentions Trakffickinghub literally once to corroborate numbers. I read every word of...

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and there are no "anti-sex" or religious undertones. It highlights just how rife the internet is with underage ppl forced into...

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porn and how it ruins their lives, and how little porn sites and search engines do to stop that cycle. To turn what is an important exposé..

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Into essentially a rant about how people hate sex work is really, really selfish and misguided. I'm all for protecting sex workers but...

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using that NYT article as the genesis of her argument is slimy. Go read it yourself and see if it doesn't change how you see this thread

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I can't find any justification to his claim that Exodus Cry is anti-semitic. In fact they express anti-anti-semitic views: (1/3)

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Sometimes really shitty groups don't put their shittiest beliefs right on their front page for some strange reason. Shocking I know.

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(3/3) The "naturally" makes me suspect he's the type who just assumes anyone with the Wrong Kind of Opinions is also automatically racist.

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Thanks for looking into that! I don't know any of the names involved other than the main companies, so I appreciate some fact-checking.

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he was wrong, and non factual so maybe get your facts elsewhere.

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Exodus Crys is a ministry of the International House of Prayer, Kansas City- IHOPKC's founder Mike Bickle is a notorious anti-semite; he's-

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professed his mission is to convert Jews and that Hitler was sent by God, Ted Cruz touted being endorsed by him. Exodus Cry has greatly-

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revised their website to hide their ongoing affiliation to IHOPKC and even had themselves scrubbed from the Internet Archive to do so.

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That anti porn group is run by very typical right wing karens. Anti-semitism isnt a crazy assumption

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Great but it's still an unfounded assumption until evidence supporting it is presented.

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How does one get the job of previewer of live streams? Asking for a friend.

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I volunteer as tribute!

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Have a buddy who does IT for a cam company. He had to watch four hours of a guy doing the helicopter to find a bug in their player.

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lol amazing. that truly sounds super boring

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Nobody's going to be naked tho buddy. (Unless I forgot what I just read)

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I cannot even begin to tell you how you do not want that job.

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I’m sure your joking, but how does anyone stomach the job of filtering out CP & rape/revenge porn? That sounds horrific.

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I'd be concerned about anyone asking for that job because I'd assume they want a legal way to watch CP. Id be down to watch revenge/rape tho

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Which is probably an equally concerning statement to many

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I fucken downvoted you and upvoted you, you sick reasonable person.

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I have a rape fetish, both ways. Cant help it. Obviously we need to scrub the actual bs off the web cause that's horrifying.

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Revenge porn I could do. Rape... Maaaybe. CP would he difficult to say the least.

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Revenge porn is just regular stuff uploaded or revorded without participant consent. Not inherently violent or horrific to watch

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Bet it'd still feel gross after a full 8 hours of finding and deleting it.

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You don't want this job. I quit a a cyber forensics job after I worked my first CP case. It is really fucked up stuff.

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*CAM (child abuse material)

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Yikes. Honestly, as much as I want to learn/practice more forensics, I hear these stories and get creeped out.

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Cyber forensics is interesting. Problem is some people are monsters.

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I was fascinated by the technology side of it but my professor's stories made certain I wouldn't choose it as a career.

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That’s the problem with most forensics. Finding out what some people are capable of is hard on your world view. Psychopaths look/act normal.

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Apparently people who work these kinds of jobs need TONS of downtime because of the things they see destroying their mental health.

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Id love a storyline post...

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I can not give one. I signed a NDA for that job. Also I only did 4 cases total with them. 2 were data recovery while 2 were full analysis.

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As a former stripclub bouncer, it took 3 days for naked dancers to stop being sexual. 10 years later I'm still not turned on by nakedness.

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I'm the same. Only seen one person naked IRL. It's just nudity.

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Commiserations...

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I think that's actually kind of good. Nudity is so over sexualized in the US.

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I was a bouncer for private party strippers company and ya you get over it really quick.

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I get it if it's(nudity) within a work context that you no longer feel arousal. But does that extend to your personal life as well? Sorry...

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...that is a very personal question to ask, so please feel free to ignore it.

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I'm bi. I prefer womanly shapes over manly. Being naked isn't inherently sexual to me. Nakedness in nd of itself isn't a fantasy any more.

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I’ve seen my wife naked for 25 years and still enjoy it. Just saying.

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Yeah but was it ever in a workplace with a purely transactional environment, or was it in a romantic setting?

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Only when we role play.

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Remove the emotion and it doesn’t feel the same I’m sure

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This is it.

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You know how ppl think everyone should work retail/food service at some point? I now think everyone should work in a stripclub

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Dealing with drunks isn't so bad. Deaing with the entitled is harder. Dealing with drunk entitled strippers, eell i got hit more by dancers.

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Part of that is they can get away with hitting you. Patrons know/think you will beat them up and call the cops

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This is true. I was very patient with my customers and tended to talk people down. Roadhouse rules and all

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I just meant so that nakedness wouldn't be equated with sexuality anymore, but I do see your point

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Intent helps. Naked wife is nice, naked wife giving me the look, instant turn on. Naked stripper giving me the look? She wants a tip.

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Not nearly as interesting, but, I worked on top of the world's strongest magnet (45T) for a month with steel toed boots, and now...

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dude composite is the way to go

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Oh I know... but I had the chance and I took it.

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everything else is just kinda like... watching reruns of full house.

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Wait, I'm waaaay interested. Tell the story. Why were you on a magnet, why were you wearing magnetic shoes, how much were you getting paid?

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

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lol. I was a masters degree level engineer working on a prototype magnet. Made $44K/yr. I wore them because it was FUCKING AWESOME.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I work with MR...super powerful magnets are neato and very useful

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

NMR? MRI? ICR? Those are typically very "cool" magnets.

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MRI...biggest I've seen is 7T, with full bore. Higher ones are narrow bore that can't fit whole patients or for animals

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I did a first order design for a Nb3Sn based 15T head scanning MRI. $30M in JUST conductor.

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It's past time we decriminalized sex work in the US.

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5 years ago (deleted Aug 21, 2021 3:28 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I'm not familiar with the Dutch system, but I'm pretty sure they're an example of legalization, not decriminalization.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's past time the world criminalises organised religion. All of them.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

good luck with that. Decriminalizing sex work doesn't come close to top priority for your shit hole country.

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And why would it?

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It's past time US catholic talibans stop dictating their twisted views on the entire fucking world...

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Thank you have been saying that for awhile now.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Agreed. While I do believe pornhubs change is good, an actual step would be regulating it to deal with demand

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And marijuana. Well most drugs actually.

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Legalize it all, and treat addiction as what it is, a disease

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Probably also underaged porn consumption. Keep the 'no public advertising' rules but I mean. Their is no reasonable way to control it

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So all it really does is harm the porn industry in general by creating liability concerns of selling to minors

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What I'd love to see is that we start criminalizing the talibangelicals, but that'll never happen. America wasn't founded as a christian nation, but it became a christofascist one very quickly after the last of the founders died.

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Decriminalize sex work, and being a sex worker. Penalize every other aspect that isn't promoting the health of the workers.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Couldn't a site simply use Mastercard processing for purchase of completely tame "sexy time bucks" as a go between for liability?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think that might qualify as money laundering.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only if the money is illegally obtained. In this case you're just paying for only fans currency.

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Gotta get rid of the religious nuts. Take their teeth away. No real change until that happens.

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good lord I imagined a gestapo like force literally taking teeth from the religious nuts... Im down.

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right. Just after u legalize abortion

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Abortion is already legal. The current troubles are with accessibility.

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But that's gonna upset sky daddy

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It has to be done right. The Dutch example is not good. Estimates of the number prostitutes varies by 10,000, meaning that testing is not >

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The country is backwards sexually and bends over to Puritans so wouldn't count on it happening anytime soon. Can't even teach proper sex ed.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Did this law of yours abused enough rights of black people? →NO→ it's not time. → YES → ok it's time, but also bc white people want a share.

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Unfortunately the separation of church and state is just a tagline at this point, half of the US is run by conservative zealots and madmen

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Once all the puritan Christians are out of power, then we might actually get a crack at a decent society of people.

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It's past time the US gets its shit together in most things... Just saying.

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In line with everyone else in the world.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's past time for anything at this point. Climate change has just been appointed the title of Grim Reaper. We are fucked.

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Start with the metric system. They've been fucking the dog on a sane measurement system for too. Fucking. Long.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I’ll go one step further. It should be legalized, taxed and regulated

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Full legalization creates more problems for sex workers than it solves. Decriminalization is the preferred solution.

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Nah. Big problem with legalization is it creates thresholds and hurdles and bars to entry.

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Can’t have it both ways.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

...No? You can decriminalize without legalization. I don't know why you think it's impossible.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That lasts hardly any time at all. Decriminalization always leads to legalization. That’s entirely the point of decriminalization.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Thats a problem that can be mitigated, and its a fair trade to increase safety and reduce sex trafficking.

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Decriminalization already does that. Legalization shifts power away from the workers and toward employers.

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Never gonna happen with the soft theocracy we have.

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Soft? There's absolutely nothing soft about it. How many atheists are in congress right now? One? MAYBE? Probably zero. How many Christians?

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Soft headed people.

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in a country colonized by prude puritans? GL with that...

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Puritans don’t deserve that. They were very sex positive within a marriage and drank tons of cider that they made.

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Right, "sex positive" so long as its: not prostitution, not homosexual, not outside of wedlock, and certainly not if its "sodomy."

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Yeah, what year was that again?

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When they punished sexual relations outside of marriage? Or when they imposed their self righteous interpretation of acceptable sex?

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First mandate all sex workers need to hold a gun to appear on camera, then watch anyone try to stop them.

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It's past time we remove a lot of these religious groups as well.

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Make them pay taxes, at least.

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remove?

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Sherman.

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P. Sherman 42 Wallabyway, Sydney

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Why these religious groups are considered so legit and have more power to do this is te real baffling part.

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Seriously? They're considered legit because they have $.

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they all vote

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Yesn't, this is about influencing the freedom of contract of companies (amex etc.), why exactly amex&co are not like utilities no one knows.

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They vote w/$, that's the biggest part of the problem.

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If you’re baffled by that then you don’t know what’s going on and probably never will.

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This is a great post, I believe what she’s saying, but I’d love some sources on, “getting sex workers killed” etc..I’d like more information

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I remember when Tumblr closed it's adult content, there werr quite a few prostitutes that were legitimately scaeed because they lost their

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Screening process so they couldn't filter out creeps and unsafe people. There was some talk about a hike in the number of murdered

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Prostitutes due to that but I don't know if it was real or nit though.

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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moving sex work from on cam to in the backseat of a car or in a rando hotel room is for sure way more dangerous.

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That's just an assumption, explained in the tweet where they say sex workers will be forced to use shady and dangerous methods now

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This is a opportunity for Crypto payments (especially fee-less or low fee ones) to become more established

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No. It'll only open up for more criminal activity

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The rise of an ill to perpetuate another ill. Sounds great.

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Did you get your information about crypto from glancing at a crappy newspaper headline, I wonder?

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No. Environmental damage caused by crypto farms is real. Are you unaware?

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Well it is already the preferred payment method of sex traffickers.

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What was that Mr. Gaetz?

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The issue with the current crypto currency systems are they're far too unstable to make it worth it long term. If a company pays out to you

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say weekly on contributions from fans. Fans could have paid in a total of 500USD in that week, but by the time you get paid out you're

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now getting paid ~100 because the crypto market took a sudden tumble. Crypto doesn't need to replace banking systems, it needs to get on par

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with them and have actual backing along with a stable transfer rate.

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Figured someone from the 'crypto currency solves everything's would chime in

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But it literally could solve this -

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I'm more of a 'cryptocurrency could be used as means of payment' guy but ok

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Even if they started accepting crypto today, it wouldn't change the calculus or the result.

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What alternatives to prevent trafficking besides vetting are there? Real stories of people put on PH against their will are heartbreaking

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this isn't porn hub.

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There really is just vetting and enforcement, as much as denialists refuse to admit it sex "work" is reliant on trafficking and exploitation

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Taking the whole industry out of a legal grey area means you can take steps to actually tackle the real problems.

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That doesn’t answer the question, though. Unless anything goes, you’ll still need a way of distinguishing between acceptable and

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unacceptable sex work. What is the solution? And this isn’t me arguing against legalizing sex work, but we can’t act like “make it legal”

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is the start and end of the solution. What’s the next step?

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Sending droids down to the planet?

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Unions. I'm at least partially serious here.

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I'm sex positive & read the Kristof story: There were REAL cases of revenge porn & underage sex on PornHub, and *something* had to be done.

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And this isnt argue against that at all so whats your point?

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And to be clear I read the rest of your comments that dont actually disagree with the OP so like wut?

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I feel the OP railroaded over very real issues to focus on the Christian narrative, as if the lack of that narrative wouldn't have resulted

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in the same situation. Even without Puritanical bullshit, I think Pornhub and CC companies would've responded the same way. The evangelical

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right is certainly an obstacle to sensible sex work policy that is the next step to fixing the problem, though.

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And while sex workers should have legal & safe avenues to make their living, there needs to be SOME oversight to ensure others aren't being

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exploited or taken advantage of. I'm unsure if CC companies are the right way to do this, but obv OnlyFans isn't willing to do the work that

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it takes, so hopefully some other sites are willing. We want an FDA to maker sure our food is healthy to eat and drugs safe to take, we

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should obviously have some oversight to ensure that sex work is safe and consensual, too. Maybe the real answer is actual legislation that

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decriminalizes sex work and creates the regulatory apparatus to protect sex workers. But given the GOP, that isn't going to

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Or ya know, sites have an obligation to ensure they don’t host illegal material. People are free to make a new onlyfans that uses similar>>

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Lmao, exactly

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Vetting as pornhub.

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You didn't read properly. They'd have to manually vet each and every piece of content uploaded. That will cost boatloads

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Is that what pornhub does? Their strategy seems to work

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Looks like the people who started this are not satisfied with even that. They still are calling for Pronhub to shut down. Give these people

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And inch and they take a mile.

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Its physically impossible, thats why by its roundabout way of banning something.

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Precisely

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Exactly! Have we as a society decided that online Porn is a righteous and healthy thing?

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Imo it's similar to smoking and drinking. Certainly bad for you, but an adult can decide to consume it anyways.

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Social media and modern marketing have handcuffed our ability to choose.

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Think we’ve learnt there might be a new definition for what an adult really is considering the lack of culture and education leading to this

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how is it bad you puritanical fool...

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lol, I'm certainly not puritan. Addiction to porn is a thing and can have a bad effect on ones sexlife.

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So you advocate for bringing back prohibition right?

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Except onlyfans doesnt have that problem. As far as ive heard

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Except, frankly, any site on the internet that lets anyone upload content, is going to have this problem and needs to have a way of

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preventing it.

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It does. It's what started this whole thing. A BBC investigation that found cases of underage girls, beastiality, exploitation of homeless

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You think people look around at what goes wrong while theyre simping around in onlyfans. If they ignore the problem then it doesn’t exist

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And other stuff where OF weren't good at moderating it like they should. That's the real reason credit card companies pulled away

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Every site that allows users to upload content will miss something even if they catch 99% of the illegal/TOS breaking uploads. That's just a

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reality of how that works. That doesn't mean you nuke everything.

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