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Companies like OnlyFans that exploit people's loneliness and vulnerability should not exist. There needs to be a ban on these virtual narcotics just as there is on real ones.

This company gives nothing back to society except misery and addiction.




Sex work is called the oldest profession for a reason.

There are some basic human urges you can't suppress by banning them - religions have tried for a few thousand years, and they can't keep even their _priests_ in check, never mind the regular believers.

Should sex work be regulated? Definitely.

Can it be banned? No.


In Sweden, the ban is on men (or anyone, but almost only men in practice) looking for paid sexual encounters. As a woman (or man), you're free to sell sex. But if you pay someone for sex, you're committing an offence and can get jail time. The implicit assumption is that only someone in a very vulnerable position would sell their bodies (or worse, be forced into doing that by very bad people), and hence they don't deserve punishment, they just need help to get into a better situation.

This solution basically means law-abiding citizens who suffer from mental or physical conditions that make it virtually impossible to find a voluntary, willing sex partner are going to be cut off from being able to enjoy sexual pleasures for their whole lives. I suppose that this (and the fact of knowing this) may cause their condition to worsen significantly.

In practice, those who can just go to Germany or the Netherlands to use a legal prostitute, or Thailand (for example) if they want a long term partner.

Those who can't are left to their own devices. Unfortunately, comparing figures about sexual crime between countries is notoriously difficult, so it's not possible to make a clearcut case for whether that impacts , but it's not hard to imagine there may be a correlation.

Anyway, I wonder how the Swedish system sees Onlyfans. Does it consider the men who are buying these services from the "vulnerable models" the bad guys in this story? Should they be punished? Do they believe only vulnerable women are on Onlyfans, and that most of them probably were forced into it by some bad men? I honestly want to know what they are thinking.


Very similar for India. Prostitution is legal, but every way of actually obtaining their services isn't.


Onlyfans is not sex work, it is infinitely more sinister. Most "models" there sell facades of human contact to the extremely deprived who have nowhere else to go to. It is adjacent to drug sellers selling to homeless street beggars and turning them into perpetual miserable cash cows.


How is a Cosplayer selling their photos and videos on Onlyfans "more sinister" than selling the same content on a different platform?


They're selling a fake relationship and taking advantage of lonely people. Sellling porno flicks is much more honest.


Prosecute them for fraud and caused pain and suffering. Some 5x factor of spend money seems fair to me.


1) Why is the company supposed to give anything back to society? Should your hobbies be banned because they may not be socially useful?

2) In any case it's the creators doing the cheating. Should malls be banned if one store happens to sell counterfeited handbags?


But there isn't a ban on all real narcotics, alcohol is freely available in many places, so why ban this virtual narcotic vs any other (gaming, social media, fantasy forums?)


Alcohol was a tool for social gatherings long before its narcotic tendencies came to be established. For better or worse it has been a part of generations of human societal growth. Unlike alcohol, other narcotics like gaming, social media, fantasy forums, cocaine, methamphetamines etc don't bring people together, instead push them away and latch on as parasites making it their hosts only goal to obtain more of themselves.


You've never heard of LARPing? Or live events organized via social media (using it as ... a tool)? Or people, you know, socializing via social media??? Or recreational non-alco-drug use in such social gatherings as nightclubs?

Also, other drugs have "been a part of generations", e.g., "Coca leaves have been used by Andean civilizations since ancient times"


At least porn addiction does not cause physical health issues except for gooning-induced calluses. ;)


Extremely deluded and tone-deaf take.


Unfortunately, you could say this about all pornography, really. I know that's singing to the choir if you're a religious fundamentalist but many adults consume pornography knowing it's a fiction and not letting themselves be deluded into thinking it's real.

Deep down, all vices that involve overuse occur when one is extremely lonely though. The only real issue with pornography is that it is mixed with other emotions / needs that can lead one to feeling much more hurt when the come-down occurs.


>Deep down, all vices that involve overuse occur when one is extremely lonely though.

Abating loneliness is what religion used to do best; I acknowledge this despite being atheist. Unfortunately it has become demonized in today's world.




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