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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I don't think Onlyfans is introducing more promiscuity - I think it (and stuff like WAP) are symptoms of changing cultural tides in regards to *seduction*, not actual sex. The difference may be hard to spot but I think it's extremely important. Thread:
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I suspect seduction rites and sex rites are two extremely different classes and should be treated separately. Seduction rites include culturally visible sexual power - from bared ankles to miniskirts - and messaging around that power. Right now we're seeing a huge rise in 1/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
female sexual signalling - the scope of what is acceptable female seduction display is widening a lot - look at Onlyfans and WAP. It's very explicit, borderline pornographic, female-empowerment messaging. But I think this is *not* transferring to sex as much as people think! 2/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Our cultural messaging isn't emphasizing sexual messaging, it's emphasizing sexual *power*, and culturally, women's sexual power is held *without* having sex with men. Case study: Bella Thorne. Bella is the most recent famous Onlyfans girl and a great example of 3/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
what people (or more importantly, young women) think of as sexual power and *how* to be acceptable on Onlyfans. Bella posts very tantalizing photos, obscured art nudes, high-flash short-skirt shots, but *not* actual pornography. Her message is "Come close, but don't touch." 4/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And this is the same with WAP - the singers of the song are both in long term relationships, one of them married. Iirc Cardi B has joked about not actually having sex with many people, despite the song. The lyrics are explicit but the women themselves *are not*. 5/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
The fascinating thing about Onlyfans isn't that girls are sluttier (young women are having *less* sex!), it's that the line between seduction and sex is getting much more visible in the narrowing space. To me, the lack of bleed over is the important and worrying thing here. 6
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@Aella_Girl
Women's sexual power is being flaunted - the thing you want but cannot get is being blown up, socially embraced, put into your face. And I think this is good - but what's worrying to me is the asymmetry between gendered power here. I think if we don't figure out a way to give 7/
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@TPSReport
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@Aella_Girl
Sexual desire is the carrot that puts young men on the treadmill of growing up. If all that is asked is a $5 monthly subscription, we're going to produce a lot of stunted men.
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VictoryRed
@FreddyMagnus
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@Aella_Girl
“Seduction” is scalable. “Sex” isn’t. Desire can be digitized, packaged, repackaged, and distributed in ways that sexual intercourse cannot. But why are men so thoroughly entranced by the former when they so desperately want the latter. You’d think they’d have burned out by now.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@chuckemsuckem
why the hell is my twitter full of people just assuming that im an idiot? Ive talked *extensively* making your exact point on podcasts, seriously fuck twitter today
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@TreeMachineRevi
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@Aella_Girl
I think it's because women gain marginally more social value by flaunting their sexuality in the current climate, but lose value by actually prostituting themselves. I don't really see how much further this can be pushed past showing T&A and literally doing porn
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