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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by XorNot on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:51PM (#46606819)
What's wrong with an OnlyFans contributor? It's a self-employed job that services a demand within the economy and pays taxes. It's pretty close to the ideal job an immigrant can have since the product is already globalized but the revenue is not - i.e. an OnlyFans influencer with an American audience who moves to America is now bringing that income back into the economy via taxes and spending, or if they have an international audience they are attracting foreign dollars into your economy and strengthening your currency position.
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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by bluescrn on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:00PM (#46607918)
Extracting money from horny young men with an illusion of intimacy/friendship just doesn't seem ethical. Or good for society as a whole.

Especially when you've got streamers using sites like Twitch, aimed at younger gamers, promoting their OnlyFans porn.

The regular porn industry is bad enough (https://traffickinghub.com/), but at least the content is non-interactive, there's no pretence of friendship/connection.

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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by amelius on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:33PM (#46609315)
Most users understand that there is no real friendship.

Just like people understand that the violence in movies is fake.

What makes an onlyfans contributor worse than an actor in a violent movie?

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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by whattheheckheck on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:11PM (#46610497)
Good question read up on it

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pornography-censorship/

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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:11PM (#46607166)
Sex work (OF or otherwise) is unsavory, that's what. You can't stop it but there's zero reason we should be going out of our way to grant visas to sex workers.
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Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v... by gjm11 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:47PM (#46607712)
> there's zero reason

The comment you are replying to articulated, I think rather clearly, one reason why maybe we should.

I think what you actually mean is that the reasons not to ("sex work is unsavory") outweigh the reasons to ("sex work is going to happen anyway and if some of the people doing it move to the US then they will spend their money and pay their taxes in the US and contribute to the economy there").

Maybe you're right, maybe you're not, but I don't think you should say "there's zero reason" when in fact there obviously are reasons and you just think other countervailing reasons matter more.

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