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It's crazy to me how ubiquitous the assumption is that any kind of sex work, even something as tame as nude photography, must be considered an unhappy last resort by any woman engaging in it.

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this isn't quite what I was trying to say, I should've been more specific. I was more trying to say that I think bodily autonomy is a such a important part of a person's identity that a person should never feel pressure to unwillingly give up their bodily autonomy

What? Selling nudes is the epitome of bodily autonomy, if they want to sell nudes, they should be allowed to because they own their own body.

again, that's not what I'm saying. if someone wants to sell nudes, go for it. however I see an issue in having someone who had no desire to do so, but feels compelled to so just to get by

> someone who had no desire to do so, but feels compelled to so just to get by

is the definition of work for most people. How is this different?

Exactly that. It's not like janitorial staff or farm hands or factory line workers or the swaths of other people doing menial, backbreaking or extremely boring jobs by and large chose to do so for any reason other than trying to make ends meet.

Do you feel the same way about bodily autonomy when people choose to do hard labour?

What about picking strawberries? Working in a meat-packing plant with a high risk of catching Covid-19? Especially these days, there's way less bodily autonomy in most "essential" jobs than posing in front of a camera.

We're still in a system where if you don't work, you should expect homelessness and starvation. Until we get beyond this, OnlyFans is among the best of a bunch of bad options for lots of folks.

It's a pretty lazy assumption to assume that assumption. Why not set the bar higher for oneself?

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