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Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Sex ed practices and curricula likely vary massively by district, even within district; it might be informative if someone could identify a survey or comparative or best practices resource on the subject. I may have time this weekend if no one else does so in the interim.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2023 15:01

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Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

WaPo article on a case study of the successful OnlyFans production side business model, followed by a more detailed discussion of the platform and its role normalizing this form of porn production:

Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream

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n the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams�s OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate, roll up the winding driveway that cost $120,000 to pave and park outside Adams�s $2.5 million home-office-studio complex. A large American flag waves from a pole above their office door. So does a banner depicting Adams, in tight shorts, from behind.

On OnlyFans, subscribers pay for monthly access to feeds of creators� videos � many of them sex videos, known as �collabs� � as well as pay-to-watch clips the �fans� can buy a la carte. And as one of the platform�s most popular creators, Adams runs her business like a machine.

Inside, a storyboard designer opens the day�s publishing plans for not just OnlyFans but all of their customer feeder sites � Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. Editors start splicing video into short looping clips, optimized for virality. Collabs are sent to paying fans.

Brian Adam, Bryce�s longtime boyfriend (who, like Bryce, uses a stage name for privacy), stops at each employee�s desk to review the day�s assignments, vetoing any posts or captions that seem �cringe� or �off brand.� In an office loft, four young women start texting with Adams�s paid subscribers, who talk about sex and their personal lives in conversations that often exceed a thousand messages a day.

This being a sex business, their workdays are filled with what others might see as debauchery, but which they see as just work: Two (or three) people will slip into a bedroom next to the kitchen or the gym with a cameraman, or just their cellphones, to record a collab or start live-streaming themselves exercising in the nude.

The article only touches on the ongoing uneven pay that distributed independent contractor platforms like this one sustain themselves on, in a manner that feeds into the platform's frame:

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Like most platforms, OnlyFans suffers from a problem of incredible pay inequality, with the bulk of the profits concentrated in the bank accounts of the lucky few. In 2020, the independent researcher Tom Hollands scraped the website�s payment data and concluded that the top 1 percent of accounts made 33 percent of the money, and that most accounts took home less than $145 a month. (OnlyFans declined to provide its own analysis, and Hollands said the company has since made it harder to access this data or conduct new research.)

For those who do make it, however, the rewards can be life-changing. When the OnlyFans creator Elle Brooke was pushed during a TV interview in June to explain how a future child of hers might feel about her work, her response � �They can cry in a Ferrari� � became an OnlyFans rallying cry. Stella Sol, a dominatrix, tweeted, �It�s always so funny how mad people get at beautiful Women happily winning the game of life.�

There's a lot of other weirdness to chew through, from employing Adam's mother as a cleaner to their guns to the relative pay of the employees on the nested brand.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Nov 11, 2023

# ¿ Nov 11, 2023 23:17

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

We need a rework of the sonic meme, replacing "consumption" with "masturbation"

# ¿ Nov 12, 2023 03:27

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