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by ClumsyPilot 1030 days ago
> wow does a company like this recruit good (or at least decent) talent?

Not everyone finds it objectionable, many people don't share prudish views that seem to dominate Chirtian America.

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I don't doubt that. But how do they find candidates? And how do interested engineers find positions?
Someone else commented above about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37287011
Not everyone who finds it objectionable is prudish or an American "Chirtian".

I personally find it deeply harmful and a net negative on society and I'm neither of those things.

What is "it" exactly? Luring users into the pit of addiction, destroying whatever little will they still have?
You mean the same way alcohol, drugs, sugar, gambling, cheap credit etc. are marketed?
Prettu much. OF belongs to this list.
Programming the front end for an adult website is not that much different from any other web development. You will never even watch much "content" at work despite the product you're working on.

I'm sure you can comment about the actors, but given that OF is simply a hosting platform, I assume the GP was talking about hiring developers.

I dont think "Chirtian" is a word.

Sex work often involves a lot of drug addicts and negative outcomes for all involved. Those who advocate for it are often not telling their whole story.

The negative outcomes are mainly due to societal stigmatization. Which explains the 'not telling the whole story' pretty well too. It's not exactly great dinner conversation.

Drug addiction is not really something that's compatible with adult performing. I'm sure it would correlate with some type of sex work (the cheapest 'street corner trick-turning' comes to mind) but those are not the type of people you'll find on OnlyFans.

I wouldn't be surprised if you find more drug addicts in a high-speed trading floor than the average OnlyFans performer population.

Ps I'm not advocating it as a career option but I know some people are drawn to it and genuinely like it. Reddit is/was full of people doing it for free and I don't think it's a bad idea to try to make a job out of it for those people.

> The negative outcomes are mainly due to societal stigmatization

disagree - ordinary citizens often do not get to see the inpatient room at rehab clinics, emergency rooms and court hearings. The fun ends pretty quickly for a lot of people. not making this up "real"

Are we talking about sex workers or the "War on Drugs"? It's very much established that society and even the government can make certain stereotypes and stigmas stick if they want it to.
see you in the rehab center

honestly, no one suggested "make self-harm illegal" here you added that. People can do vice all day and more importantly all night. After you have seen the results a few (dozen) times you might change your mind. Meanwhile, lots of people with active substance abuse habits will chime in quickly about how wrong it is to criticize substance abuse habits.

I just don't understand how sex work (and especially video sex work) equates to drug abuse.

I know many OnlyFans performers and only one of them has a drug problem (and had this already before she turned to OnlyFans). She's also not very popular because it's pretty clear that she has this problem. That's why it's such a bad combo. The successful ones (well, successful as in they make a few hundred bucks a month because it's not a goldmine) make much higher quality and have a normal day job / life.

Like I said some sex work does really correlate with drug abuse but it's really the lowest-quality street prostitution, girls that turn tricks for a few bucks to pay for their drug habit. They won't be popular on OnlyFans because they simply look awful. It's terrible but the sex work is a result of their drug abuse, not the other way around. The same with the petty theft surrounding drug abusers.

> The negative outcomes are mainly due to societal stigmatization. Which explains the 'not telling the whole story' pretty well too. It's not exactly great dinner conversation.

Source please?

> Ps I'm not advocating it as a career option but I know some people are drawn to it and genuinely like it. Reddit is/was full of people doing it for free and I don't think it's a bad idea to try to make a job out of it for those people.

This content, free or not is a net negative on society.

source on why you don't talk about porn at the dinner table? I don't know, there may be some societal etiquette handbook somewhere.

But for the first part, it's a psychological phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity

specifically the Barnsenian form: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22415/

>This content, free or not is a net negative on society.

Ehh, Reddit isn't THAT bad. Not compared to Twitter or Facebook, at least.

Well the people I generally meet would talk about porn at the dinner table when we go out and many of them publish on OnlyFans too lol :P I also often repair sex toys for my friends.

But I wouldn't imagine this to be a popular topic when meeting up with the in-laws that's all.

The same is true of lots of kinds of work: finance, healthcare, foodservice, retail, construction... (Especially construction.) The common thread is income inequality and poor protection for workers, not sex.
[...] often involves a lot of drug addicts and negative outcomes for all involved.

Sounds more like politics to me :-).