I've noticed a cultural shift in my 8 years in sex work.
When I started, it was taken as a given that your content would get leaked eventually. And the obvious norm was, you couldn't justify selling that content anymore, because people could find it for free. 1/
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Men would get mad if you sold them something that had already been leaked, and it was sort of 'your fault' if you did that. Girls worked hard to keep their leaked content off the web so they could keep selling it.
Today, I'm starting to see a shift of norms where 2/
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the leaked content of sex workers is 'nonconsensually viewed', and you're still obligated and expected to pay for it if you viewed it without the consent of the worker, and if a sex worker sells you something that was leaked before, this is okay and people don't get mad. 3/
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I've even seen people voluntarily asking how they can pay for my content they've seen leaked online. This is mind blowing - I *never* got that when I first started sex work. It's crazy to see how the emphasis on consent is hitting consumers of porn. I kinda like it. 4/4
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Similar to how people have got used to paying for content with Netflix instead of pirating it. In the long run it works out better for everyone with better content
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Maybe this reflects shifting cultural norms around piracy in general as more and more products become digital-only, where before we believed in our guts only physical things could be “stolen”
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The proliferation of niche content by independent performers overwhelms classic internet piracy. It used to be that most popular content was available through torrents, then tubes. Now you can get specific content from a sex worker that hits your particular buttons, if you pay.
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do you know if this is industry wide or could it be related to you also having an interesting intellectual presence online?