RE: I am Virtual Geisha, an 18 year old girl who is an online adult worker, artist, and most of all, a person like you.
I guess my point is that most end up doing it because it pays well. Would they do it if it paid minimum wage? I doubt it. I guess what really disturbs me is knowing that there are many women who are trafficked, who have no way of getting out. They are essentially slaves. The fact that they are being exploited by pimps is super disturbing to me. I think those who are their own managers and who exploit themselves are actually doing it correctly. Men have been exploiting women for profit forever.....this is what really makes me sick. Steemit represents a place where people are free to be themselves, where they will not be exploited by others. If they choose to exploit themselves, then so be it. That is something pretty amazing actually.
My past has shaped me as I was a fashion model for Elite when I was young. I really hated everything about it except the money, of course. I didn't like the way I was objectified and I got out pretty fast. The whole experience left a very bitter taste in my mouth, so that's why I hate any type of career that exploits others.
@stellabelle
Fact check, even historically speaking most brothel owners are women. In ancient times it was temple priestesses not the priests that ran the bordello rites and if you check the rolls of your local prison you'll find far more women doing time for pimping than men.
I know it's a fun narrative to think it's big ol mean men doing the exploiting, but it's not factual.
Male pimps are more physically violent there's far fewer of them, female pimps work mostly with psychological abuse and there are far more.
Even look at who does the arranging in cultures where arranged marriage is the norm, generally it's Grandma and the aunts.
When speaking of pimps, here's your stats:
From this site: http://www.attn.com/stories/4943/what-pimps-look-like-in-2016
When we're talking about the owners of camgirls, porn production movies, etc. the majority are male. However, with the internet, more women are taking on roles as director, or just exploiting themselves. The camgirl operations take a huge percentage of the profits, though, and these sites are male-dominated.
That's not a statistic, that's a survey.
It was conducted by a Think Tank in Washington DC called the Urban Institute which is headed by a well known Feminist and included data from 8 major cities.
Beyond the source and it's methodologies being suspect, the fact remains the demographic breakdown of pimps exactly matches the demographic break down of inner cities in USA, ergo the title could just as easily have been what do inner cities in the USA look like in 2016.
This is why you need to look at the conviction rates.
Yes! I really am agreeing with you that it is very worrisome about women being trafficked, or being taken advantage of by managers. Even camsites or video selling websites take such a huge cut (70-30%) it is quite sickening. I never joined any of those websites because I hated the thought that I would be taken advantage of. Patreon takes a fair cut of 10%, so I don't mind that. I'm also in the process of building my own website with a friend, so hopefully that works out!
When I heard of steemit I was also super impressed, and loved the idea, so I am super happy to be part of the community.
P.S. Really like the art work you posted!
you can build your audience here. I had a website that I built but to be honest, i am making more here. Plus, I have developed an audience, like I'm at 1600 followers, so this has more meaning to me. I think you can do everything you want to do on here. It all depends on how much energy to put into it.....but it is possilble and you'd be your own boss too.