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I am still amazed that prostitution is legal when done online, and these teenage sex workers are allowed to continue selling themselves.

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(a) It's not prostitution, and (b) while prostitution is illegal in the US it's perfectly legal in the UK and many other countries.

It's not illegal in the US

You're right - it's only 99.9% illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_Sta...

(A) https://reason.com/2025/05/28/is-buying-onlyfans-content-now...

(B) Just because the laws do not explicitly mention it does not make it less of a form of prostitution.

(D) I am looking at it from a moral perspective. Not legal. Let me know if you think selling your body is not prostitution.

Very much agree. They're not "creators", they are prostitutes, as are porn-stars.

selling your body for cash is what a warehouse worker does.

Warehouse workers are not ashamed to show their work to their kids. Imagine an online prostitute's work photos.

I am still amazed that there are people who think that drugs and prostitution will go away if we just make sure that they are illegal.

Might as well add 'swearing' to that list.

What's the point of making murder and rape illegal if people are still going to do it?

Murder and rape are actions imposed onto other people. As longer as it is voluntary, prostitution cannot be compared.

Most of the risks if traditional prostitution are absent in an online interaction so it's not that surprising to me.

Morally, it is still prostitution. Some countries consider OnlyFans prostitution, some don't. At its core, a human is selling its body parts for money.

But they're not risking rape, murder, or sti s and their pimps options for keeping them in the game are much more limited.

AFAIK, many of them are offered an insane amount of money to do weird things in Dubai. It is like a gateway to hardcore prostitution and exposes anyone to prostitution with a few clicks. These videos and photos are permanently stored in someone's computer, too.

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