Sex work is cool and all but it's also cool to be able to support your friends without it requiring them to give you pictures of their buttholes in exchange for money. I can't help but feel like this particular phenomenon is a product of a uniquely American capitalist hellscape and that maybe this sort of thing wouldn't need to be a normal occurrence in a semi-functioning society. What do you guys think?
Totally! And for the record I was referring to the present moment, not anything about historic hegemonic attitudes towards sex work. Like so many things that capitalism is good at exploiting, changes in social attitudes towards sex were literally the entire reason why the floodgates to profit were opened. I feel like my timeline for the very beginning of this shift is informed mostly by boogie nights lol