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Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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.

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Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

www.psypost.org /teens-as-young-as-12-see-onlyfans-as-an-appealing-alternative-to-traditional-work-study-finds/

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People often turn to prostitution when the economy fails to provide a life for them.
Lotta prostitutes during the great depression.
Could mean nothing.
- i'm sure it means nothing. move along, citizen.
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)
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
- 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.
- 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.
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".
Wtf that crazy..
- It's a way to make a decent living, on their terms, and working from home. At least, that's how they see it.
  FREE love? In this economy?
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!
- Mohammed had several wives, one of which was six....
  Wouldn't the Christian roots be better?
  
  The problem is the people worshipping, polytheistic nature of Christianity, which goes entirely against the message of Jesus, but the Romans used him the same way Amazon sells Che Guevara t-shirts, I guess. Add to that the Paulian "faith without works", the addition of purgatory and priests "absolving you of your sins" (so fuck around, you'll never find out! And Jesus "died for your sins" either way, whatever that means) and it's easy to see why Christianity can never work. The well has been poisoned for a long, long time. 'Jewish Christianity', like it was before Rome fucked the message of the J-man, sure, but not what we've had for most of the last two millennia. Christianity today is basically a religion for those who don't want to follow God's rules and deny divine judgement... thankfully, things are not so black and white and we were created with a kind nature so, despite everything the West has done with this West Asian man and his legacy, some goodness still seeps through sometimes and motivates people to strive to be better.
  And btw, "good" Christianity (that practiced by Jesus and his followers and anyone who internalises the Sermon of the Mount, for instance) is just good/sensible Jewish Scripture +1, and Islam (without nonsensical, heretical hadiths and superficial a-Quranic traditions) is good Christianity +1. If you read, you'll understand. 👍

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