#Camming is not safe. 1) because you can be recorded and those videos are shared against your will. 2) you get pressured into degrading and dangerous acts by the men who pay and of course into entering #prostitution. Solidarity with women in camming!
https://twitter.com/RealJillMartin/status/1428771158355324936
Every woman I know who has done camming says you get real close to meeting up with one of the men who has been paying you. Money gets tight, payments dwindle when you're no longer seen as "fresh" and you think "if I just do it once will it be so bad?" Camming is not a privilege.
#Camming =/= #prostitution, but there is a huge overlap between the two. And the idea that you're physically safe in camming because the buyer can't touch you is sadly wrong as the tragic case above illustrates. Men who pay for camming can hurt you and can even kill you.
Everyone is more upset with me pointing out harms with camming enacted by the men who pay for it, than over the death of a woman by exactly what I describe. And for sure I get rich of this activism😑which few want to hear because they can't imagine supporting women for free.
We may not agree that the sex trade is harmful, but we agree women deserve to be invested in and have opportunities created beyond the industry. Literally, how can you persuade anyone to do that if you keep saying "all is fine here, nothing to see, no chronic abuses happening"...
I haven't even advocated banning camming sites, literally just said it's not as safe as a lot of people believe. Now I'm being told it's quite safe and quite good - okay, good for you? It hasn't been for women I know. They wished they'd known the risks, so I'm talking about them.
My proposal would be a site that takes a 0% cut and that directs all women who want them (!) to support orgs. Sure, it's utopian, but we don't even stand a chance if everyone defends profiteers and buyers or pretends like they're completely harmless.
I think saying it's a job like any other and that there's nothing to it if a girl starts it the day she turns 18 is really terrifying. I was a teenage girl told this stuff. I was lucky I was never strapped for cash. Other women I know were less lucky and they were not fine.
Literally all I'm saying is that the public narrative on camming paints a much too rosy picture. That women who get into it better know the risks so they can protect themselves best as possible. That those who can avoid it avoid it.
https://twitter.com/Lilith_Briscoe/status/1429191299240919042
I also want the public to stop saying all this "easy money" bullshit & understand how hard it really is. To stop debating "whats wrong with women that they do this?" & ask "whats up with men that they're paying for this? Whats their role in this? What about 3rd party profiteers?"
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