> Onlyfans is legal prostitution

No, its legal (in some jurisdictions) pornography. Prostitution on the platform, as well as whatever the legal status is in the set of jurisdictions involved, is also, from what I understand, explicitly against the platform ToS.

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BobaFloutist 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I will say that it's a weird legal distinction in many states that paying someone to have sex is illegal unlessss.... you record it and sell the recording. Then it's legal.

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imiric 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Way to split hairs. Something being against the ToS can still be legal.

Prostitution obviously cannot physically happen on an online platform, but it sure is a convenient way to advertise and attract customers, and serve as the payment processor.

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dragonwriter 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Way to split hairs. Something being against the ToS can still be legal.

Well, no, violating a binding legal agreement is illegal.

> Prostitution obviously cannot physically happen on an online platform, but it sure is a convenient way to advertise and attract customers, and serve as the payment processor.

Which is explicilty prohibited by the law in many places OF operates, and judging from the number of people who are creators on the platform I've seen complaining about people jeopardizing their status with the platform by soliciting it on the platform, also by the actively-enforced terms of the platform. OF is simply not “legal prostitution”, and it is ridiculous to describe it that way

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jacobgkau 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Well, no, violating a binding legal agreement is illegal.

Not touching the rest of this thread's arguments, but that isn't really true. Breaking ToS, or any other contract, is not "illegal"-- it's not a crime. It opens you up to civil (not criminal) penalties if the other party sues, but that's it.

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