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I suppose the most succinct and respectful way of addressing this reply is for me to say that we have a difference of opinion and that's all there is to it."Lisa is an adult person making adult decisions", that could have stopped right here. Everything else doesn't matter. But let's talk about your points:
You and a lot of old people or religious people that consider "sex worker" as a "icky/dirty", but then would go to engage on the services of such persons are the funniest thing ever. The way that you are saying, it looks like she killed/scam/whatever someone which she didn't, she is just providing content for anyone that wants to pay.
No one said that she should be "encouraged" to do "sex work", they should just gfto and stfu about decisions that her adult daughter(close to 30 years old) made unless that directly affect her health (drugs and self destruction stuff like that). Everything after that on that paragraph seems like a super religious person that thinks everything should follow that they think is the best, even after they are adults that can support themselves.
Yes, agree 100%. If you would just say:
"Lisa's an adult making adult decisions, the pragmatic mentality that I would adopt if I was in that family would amount to "I may not agree with her decisions but I do care about her and hope she's happy/I wish the best things in life for her" and pretty much leave it at that. Her family shouldn't be trying to interfere in her life."
It would be a perfect statement.
It's helpful to see potential multiple perspectives on how someone ended up in a situation such as Lisa's having upset her family with her career path and it seems unlikely that every single person in her family has a personal agenda in asking her to leave the industry.
Not intending to power-level here, but I'm a millennial and not religious whatsoever. My calling sex work "icky/dirty" has much less to do with my own personal views and more to do with my observations of how American culture perceives sex work as opposed to other developed nations. Lisa is Canadian (I think?) but she lives in the States as do I and therefore we're subjected to the judgment of how one should behave in American society based on what kinds of jobs we have, the company we keep, etc. Even if Lisa's family is Canadian, I can't imagine that Canadian society would have wildly different familial morals that are espoused to Canadian youth.
As far as "engaging the services of such persons goes", I'm not a subscriber of hers nor have I sat through one of her streams - I'm just some yutz on the Internet having a discussion in a discussion thread on a moderately well-known Twitch streamer who got into sex work through Onlyfans and Fansly. Not only that, I've never subscribed to someone on Onlyfans and more than anything, just a casual observer.
In America, sex work isn't considered high culture or an honorable profession because a lot of people see porn and open sexuality as being taboo subjects that people discuss or enjoy privately/discreetly. When a person has an Onlyfans account, it isn't considered a badge of honor, it's a punchline when referring to a person's options when they lack real-world skills and have more going for themself in the looks department. It's also a form of legalized prostitution, which itself is a pretty taboo concept despite it being around for centuries (brothels/whorehouses included). People can be as sex-positive as they want, but we haven't gotten to the point where the stigma around having anything to do with sex work is removed and it's as common/accepted as a middle-class job. If most families are embarrassed by their family members providing some form of sexual gratification to strangers as a means of sustaining a living, that's a good litmus test for how that society perceives sex work. A more in-depth, academic analysis would turn up more data with regards to the specific reasons behind what causes a family's embarrassment around a subject such as sex work (i.e. religion, etc.)
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