OnlyFans is a gateway drug to Suicide
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Just nitpicking, but I think the videotaped side of the "business" is still too young to have had its first generation fully die off.
But this is all normal because we always had dancing girls and prostitutes!!
Oh sorry, I don't know what came over me.
That's part of the problem, are those the same? Functionally, sure, she's selling a service with her body. As far as the processes, outcomes, and legalities? You could argue they're quite different.
For instance, one reason I could see women in taped porn specifically becoming prone to addiction is because of the filming process. Cuts, reshoots, the possible hours involved.
Are you arguing that porn stars are more pron to addiction than prostitutes?
My example was about addiction, but my argument in the reply was just that porn actresses can't easily be lumped in with other sex workers in trying to assess life expectancy.
More generally speaking, each sex work "profession" has its own unique qualities, so making a statistical assumption about one "profession" based on another isn't likely to be very accurate.
You're actually correct, it's a good faultline that comes up in a few discussions about the average lifespan of a performer for that exact reason: it's still a fairly recent industry in regards to the performers who gained popularity from the technological ease-of-access to porn.
However, there is little attempt from the establishment to fund extensive research into the impact(s) it has on the performers/society at large because there will never be a positive-enough outcome they could spin that would outweigh or justify the negative side-effects it entails for both those involved in producing it and those involved in consuming it.