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.
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
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.
Listen influenza doesn’t need TikTok or insta, though I’m sure they help it spread by reducing vaccination rates
I’m pretty sure it’s a portmanteau of affluenza and influencer. It’s similar to this phenomenon, but not semantic, rather morphological.
I didn’t initially catch that but that’s really amusing.
People often turn to prostitution when the economy fails to provide a life for them.
Lotta prostitutes during the great depression.
Could mean nothing.
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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”.
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)
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.
It’s never the parents’…
