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ZeroSugarMonster
01-12-2019, 03:52 AM
This bill seems to rly hurt independant online sellers & marginalized folks the most but doesnt rly restrict big companies making a bang off of internet sex work like pornhub, which seems to be benefitting from the tumblr porn shutdown.

If the big boys are benefiting in a commercial way from the free stuff that is being shut down, good for them. This industry is about money, and not anything else.

I do hope the SA arrangement site gets shut down eventually or raided or sued for trafficking (bc they are the very definition of trafficking if there is one) in the way backpage was. The man behind it is nothing but a pedophile. When I saw his most recent wife, I thought maybe Eastern European women just age well, but no, he just likes them young (and cheap) apparently.

The tumbl porn shut-down. As much as sex-workers are bitching about it, I don't think they know what's good for them. Less free porn equals more porn that one needs to pay for. As strippers, we get naked for money and as there are more avenues to see women naked for free, that just diminishes the value of what we provide.

I do think that free porn too easily accessible online diminishes people's need to pay for it. That is so much so that men seem to think that it's ok to record naked chicks without consent nowadays, as is happening more often that should be acceptable nowadays and all that perpetuates is the notion that what a woman is wearing or in our case, not wearing, denotes an ok for a man to do whatever they see fit with us.

Then there is the tinder thing: Oh dear, I'm sure all of us have had more than a few low points on there than we would like to admit.

As far as the CA re-classification of their strippers from ic status to employee, I think that is a move in the right direction per the lawsuits. However, like the ic contract status, the new employee status is there to screw over the dancers who are marginalized given the low-status of their occupation and the fact that only a few have the financial ability to fight back. It's a repeat of the old system, albeit under a new employee label. I do think that the business should be more transparent, that dancers should be more willing to classify their jobs as what they are despite the stigma, rather than labeling it as something else and also, pay their taxes, and not hide their income as I suspect many do in order to fraudulently qualify for government benefits. That dishonesty is really a disservice for many who are not liars. At the same time, I feel as though the clubs should provide some sort of an hourly wage PLUS let the dancers keep a large part of their commission cuts, ideally 50% or more off private dances, while suppressing the customer-is-always-right mentality that prevails in so many other businesses. The latter of which-that is, the fact that, if the club is any good, we most always have leeway against that mentality-is the wonderful aspect of this business, the autonomy and hopefully, it'll remain that way as is the case in plenty of clubs. Someone on another forum, said that the new employment classification is still a form of exploitation, and the dancers (the ones who can afford it) WILL fight back in the form of more lawsuits, bc the personality of most dancers is just, that, way.


Hopefully, the clubs won't die down. It's a matter of finding the next untapped gold mine, which is always not where one would expect.


I do, however, think that the sexual liberation movement as it gets ever more liberal in its very warped American way that historically favors the white male property owner, is definitely screwing things up bc the guys are entitled for more and more.