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Being a digital pimp is just as morally disgusting as being an irl pimp.



Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its creators? Does OF force its creators to have sexual contact with potentially violent or diseased/depraved individuals?

Ask yourself, would you prefer your family members to be under an IRL pimp or run their own OF?

If you look at this realistically, OF is not nearly as morally reprehensible as an IRL pimp.


This is the free market, check your moral reservations at the door.


So you would have no reservations about a business selling class A drugs to kids? Free market after all.


Yes, selling drugs to kids and being a "content creator" on OnlyFans are the same thing.


In an untethered free market, how are they different?


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I think that's a horrible way to go about life, and I am glad most do not share your outlook and do take moral responsibility for their actions.


I would simply not let my children decide to buy drugs based on what the free market provides


If you'd do that for your children, why not regulate the free market and save everyone's children from the obvious and predictable harm that you can see your ideology leads to?

(if your ideology leads to very predictable harm to children which you need to intervene protect your children from, maybe your ideology sucks).


Unless you plan on keeping your kids on a leash 24/7, best you can hope for is they won't get curious and their friends won't pressure them into it.

There's a reason regulation exists, it's to stop morally bankrupt people from exploiting people. Unfortunately it doesn't go far enough, like with the existence of OF.


Just like society should raise people to know the difference between its and it's. JFC.


Which is to say, not disgusting at all.




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