This is sad in so many ways.
To be clear, teenagers who seek recognition, who want to feel liked and accepted and who want to earn a bit of money aren't anything new.
When we Millennials were in this age group sexting was already a thing, as well as intimate pictures or kisses in the school backyard for 5 euros.
The problem with OnlyFans is that it has turned those teenage trasgressions into a business model too. It's exploitative capitalism tapping also in the extremely sensitive sphere of teenagers starting to push their boundaries and experimenting sexuality with their trusted peers.
Instead of the local park, teenagers nowadays do this kind of things by uploading extremely sensitive material that may trouble them for years to come to servers on the cloud managed by a private company. With no guarantees about how that material will be used.
And those "transactions" no longer happen between school friends or kids in the same block. An old guy from the other side of the world can just pop in and say "if I drop you $3 on the floor will you show me your ass?"
How this could become the new norm, and how we managed to raise a generation that instead of feeling outraged and humiliated by their own young bodies turned into a business model, and insted feels like it's just a side job better than pizza deliveries, is another tragedy of our generation that future sociologists will have a hard time unravelling.
https://www.psypost.org/teens-as-young-as-12-see-onlyfans-as-an-appealing-alternative-to-traditional-work-study-finds/
Fabio Manganiello
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