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Share any experiences or thoughts on current day sex work.
Have you ever cammed, sugared or escorted? How did it impact you psychologically?
Can sex work be something empowering and fulfilling, as Twitter prostitutes claim it to be?
Should sex work be legal and regulated? What do you think about Onlyfans and the recent ban reversal on it, etc.
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>>90992 531 posts and 52 image replies omitted. Click reply to view. No. 454370
I've been selling erotica in many forms since I was in high school and I've only recently stopped. If I'm honest, it started when I was a kid and was paid a substantial amount of gold in World of Warcraft to be smuggled into a bar in Stormwind to roleplay as a stripper for Alliance players. Being actually financially valued for something innate I have, and knowing that I could cultivate it further for greater profit, was incredibly alluring and became erotic for me at a time when I was just developing a concept of sexuality. It started in earnest when a guy I met on a 4chan vent server offered me money for a lewd ASMR and, being a dirt poor kid, I was hooked. $10 for a minute of whispering grew to voice-acting sex scenes, then selling my own erotic fiction, and eventually selling images and video of me. It took some time and an evolution of my business, but I built an online persona of a fictional character in an established fictional universe and would make erotic roleplay material with the characters of paying customers.
At no point did I make above minimum wage, but I was also only working for about an hour a day, which let me study while earning what I could while working shifts at a local store.
It definitely made me feel empowered when I was younger and treated it more like a passion project, but back then it was also sexual for me as the constant attention from men was something I fetishised. Eventually it became a job and I put barriers between myself and my clients/audience, making it just a bit disgusting in the end.
Ultimately it ruined me sexually and I have to practice "mindfulness" to try to retrain my brain away from deeply unhealthy turn-ons. It also ruined my perceptions of and feelings towards men.
There were so many times throughout my "career" where I was offered money, security, legitimacy etc. in exchange for my creative freedom, which equated to how much of myself I was willing to sell. Each and every offer turned out be poisoned apples offered by degenerate whoremongers. If this industry is going to exist, it needs to be regulated to the point where there are protections in place to set firm boundaries around standard and fair practice.