Julie Bindel - there-s-nothing-empowering-about-the-sex-work-on-onlyfans

Given the stories of the women Bindel met, the GBP30,000 claim sounds like one of those pyramid scheme come-ons. If it was that easy to make that kind of money, she wouldn't be the only one doing it.

My little internal bogosity meter is saying, "The closest she's been to 30,000 is walking past the billboard for the lottery."

Im considering it if dp agrees

There is nothing "empowering" about this statement.

There is also the fact that these women are complicit in the objectification and demeaning of all women. They perpetuate the patriarchal view of women as pieces of meat, available for rent. I see them as traitors to feminism. And pathetically deluded if they think this is “empowering” in any way whatsoever.
And as for the money - “What profit it a (wo)man if (s)he gain the whole world but lose her soul?” Self respect is beyond price.

What disturbs me is that these supposed serious journalists write the articles as if they were a get rich quick advertisement/scam. It’s like they’re trying to get young women to start selling nudes. They never publish stories from women struggling on UC and working in a care home because they sold nudes for five years but then the money all went to beauty procedures and costumes for the next series’s of nudes until they were old news and the audience had moved on to the next (younger) hot girl. No, they always interview these women at the height of their popularity when it all seems so easy and like the money will just keep coming in.

I used to think like that. And then i met girls who do post photos on onlyfans and have mortgages paid off in their early 20s and make more money than i can dream of. As another poster said ehats empowering about any other type of work like call center or care work or supermarket shelf stacker? Uni is usless for most now unless you are going into a very specific field and most of uni culture is focused on alcohol and sex so i see no difference. Also why can women not feel empowered that people desire their body? In roman time anything went both male and female yet now everything is taboo.

I dont think its the same as porn or prostitution though where women can be coerced or injured. If a woman wants to sell photos of her body more power to her. Im considering it if dp agrees.

It’s hard to think of anything less fucking “empowering” than pandering to misogynist violent male fantasies of abusing and demeaning women.
And yes - what a crap role model for young women.

Lot's of work isn't empowering. I think the point is that it's also an untrue claim to make about sex work.

What's empowering about working in a call centre, as a receptionist, a cashier, in hospitality, as a cook, or cleaner?

Why does work need to be empowering?

IMO it doesn't seem healthy for women who make a lot of money from OnlyFans etc to be bragging about how they dropped out of Uni to make tonnes of money every month (far more than if they had gotten a job that needs a degree) just by posting explicit content of themselves online. It isn't really a healthy message to be putting out there and these women aren't exactly role models.

One content producer from Lancashire has revealed how she earned a fortune from selling naked pictures and sexually explicit videos of herself online. Having dropped out of her degree course, she claims to have made around £30,000 every month

Awful lot of "ok Karen" responses there, confirming it is indeed a slur.