[yieldcrv]

To me, we need a better word given the overlap with all other kinds of managers and platforms.

Just because a woman and her body is involved for attention and payment, anybody getting any payment and involvement is called a pimp?

Where's the coercion, destruction, trafficking? Where are the people that really do lack agency and autonomy?

There should be two different words, one for the destructive thing that's regulated or sanctioned in physical sex for money activities, one for benign management.

[numerik_meister]

The website is taking advantage of the naivety of young women. I would not call it "benign management", just like, for example, I would also not say that online casinos are "benign" just because they are fully legal. Then it would be more appropriate to say that the website is not a pimp, but a madam.

[framapotari]

Naivety seems to imply that what they are doing is wrong, or a mistake, but they don't understand it fully. Don't you think that's a paternalistic view? Do you know what's best for those women?

[krageon]

Clearly the poster thinks they do know what is best, it's just that it's founded on more than paternalistic views: They seem to equate sex work with gambling, which tastes fundamentally puritan.

[bluescrn]

They can both seem like easy money. For most people they aren't. And there's a very real risk of long-term negative consequences.

[krageon]

Having a choice you can make that you need to spend some time really thinking about to understand doesn't mean you have to take that choice away from someone. If you do, you implicitly say that you are better than whoever got to make this choice before and you should be the one making their choices. You are not better and neither is anyone else. People make their own choices, that is the society I want to live in.

[framapotari]

A ton of things seem like easy money but aren't for most people. Many of those have a risk of long-term negative consequences. You just described a large part of life.

What makes sex work special compared to say, pilots, police, electricians, miners, fishermen, divers, construction workers and many many others who also need to balance their choice against a very real risk of long-term negative consequences?

[yieldcrv]

Can you elaborate on the naivety? Your view?

I know of some naive people, I know of some cunning people, I know of some extremely high functioning people that have a business plan, I know of some extremely goofy people that don't know what to do with all the money they make, I know of many people with paltry earnings. Many people have multiple of these attributes at once.

I don't think brothel terms are really accurate or necessary. You are mapping due to some overlap of erotica and women. There are so many other intermediaries that can be applied to these terms better, such as the businesses that let people rent rooms to record in, with better lighting and setup than they have at home. But even then, we should use a more applicable word, as they are not brothels with madams or pimps, no matter whether they have great collaborate management, or management issues.