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[Link] VICE Side Hustle: I Tried To Sell My Underwear Online To Pay My Rent
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
Everyone knows it: we’re in a cost of living crisis. Turns out a pandemic, an older generation obsessed with owning everything, and multiple catastrophic recessions don’t do great things to the economy. So VICE is trying to figure out what our options are.
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[Link] Interview With a Sex Work Accountant
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Tax time sucks. To some of us, it’s unintelligible garble on paper and the only thing to alleviate the lengthy annoyance is – sometimes – a tasty return at the end. An accountant can make things simple, if you can afford it.
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[Link] Cops Covered Up Sex Trafficking Ring to Receive Free Sex Acts, Lawsuit Says
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
Top cops for a local department in Virginia actively hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for free sex acts from the victimized women, according to a recently updated federal lawsuit.
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[Link] TikTok Accountants Aren't the Same People Who Help You File Your Taxes
Read: 6/12/2021 www.distractify.com
Jan. 6 2021, Published 11:38 a.m. ET As TikTok continues to dominate the imagination of many people across the country, the social media app and its users have begun to develop a set of unique terms that are largely used only on the platform.
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[Link] Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It to Stop Paying Sex Workers
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Throughout December, models can keep selling content as usual. On January 1, however, all content on the site will be free. AVN and AVN Stars did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.
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[Link] Hasan Piker Said He Went to a Brothel, Igniting Sex Work Debate
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Tweets and past comments from Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker have kicked off yet another argument online about whether sex work is inherently exploitative. On Thursday, Piker tweeted a video from inside of a strip club, where a young man wearing one of his t-shirts gets a lap dance.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users’ and Models' Personal Information
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
Some former OnlyFans support staff employees still had access to users' data—including sensitive financial and personal information—even after they stopped working for the company used by sex workers to sell nudes and porn videos.
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[Link] Thai OnlyFans Star Faces Prison Time As Outrage Over Case Grows
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Known by her online persona “Kai Nao,” which means rotten egg in Thai, the performer and her boyfriend, Korakot, broke the law by creating and spreading “obscene” content online, Thailand’s Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
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[Link] OnlyFans’ Botched Porn Ban Cost Creators Real Money
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
OnlyFans creators are still trying to recover the subscriptions and income they lost during the company's now reversed sexually explicit content ban.
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[Link] I'm An Adult Performer. Here's Why I'm Abandoning Amazon Wishlists.
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
GoAskAlex is an adult entertainer who launched her career in 2014 as a webcam model and online companion. Most recently, Alex won the 2020 XBIZ Cam Awards for Best Inked Model and 2021 XBIZ Awards for Overall Best Cam Model.
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[Link] Disgraced former K-pop star Seungri sent to jail and fined $1.3 million in prostitution case
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Disgraced former K-pop star Seungri has been jailed for three years after being convicted of arranging prostitution and other charges stemming from a sex and drugs scandal.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.
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[Link] OnlyFans isn’t revolutionising sex work, and using it ruined things I once did for personal pleasure
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
I joked to another sex worker recently that five years ago every journalist asked us, maddeningly and repeatedly, about sex robots. Now, the obsession is OnlyFans.
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[Link] Australia's eSafety Commissioner will be able to force platforms to get rid of BDSM and fetish content — and Australia's sex industry isn't happy about it
Read: 15/2/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
The office of the Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has confirmed that a proposed law could be used to force international services to delete online accounts hosting fetish content — but claims that isn’t how the law will be used.
[Link] Rashida Jones’s Battle With Sex Workers Reveals a New Era of Internet Censorship
Read: 27/1/2021 newrepublic.com
At the beginning of this year, news circulated that Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox had all signed on to produce a “documentary adaptation” of Sell/Buy/Date, a one-woman play about the sex industry written and performed by Sarah Jones.