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Our arguments are based on prospective. I feel gradual change is only relevant when time isn't a problem. I believe to save current individual from such objectively and current harmful behavior, rather justified or not requires more immediate action via the uprooting of said systems of oppression. My vote isn't going to save a OF model from today from a lifetime of unjustified hardship. Newsom/Stewart/Mamdani/AOC isn't either if they our next president. Nor is any small step by step progress going to save a 12 year old that joins the profession when they come of age. Are they not worth of saving? If yes, we need far more than passive approach. What comes next could be worse. I have more faith in you, my neighbors, and my self that we can take the better path. The environment can't wait for us to maybe hopefully not elect a literal pedophile, rapist, conman to the most powerful position on earth. Current and future workers including sex workers can't wait to see if those with power and money will finally give a shit. The children of today can't wait to see if our next step in the right direction emancipates them from a life of pointless hardship when we have very real, very tangible solutions right here right now... but we have time right? Maybe the next leader won't be corrupted by the money and power?
Edit: so my advice to go after more current more socially additive work isn't anything but practical. Because we live in a world of small change. And the society of today isn't ready. Maybe if we had more teachers and schools that are fully supported by society OF models can express themselves without worrying about any external pressure because society is educated on more things than just surviving...
While your objectives are admirable, I can't say I agree with the mindset.
You keep using that term that you're "saving" these people. But what you're really doing is trying to control these individuals by removing their options and removing their agency. You just don't believe they can make their own choices or that their choice is ever really their own. Teenagers who already have a solid grasp of what OF is, then has up to 6 extra years or more of exposure and experience to the content creation sphere and then decide it is what they want to try? I'm not overly concerned about that.
We don't have the "time" to save these individuals of today, but most of them don't need your saving. Realistically you are talking about the subset of these individuals that are being exploited or forced into this against their will. But there is no magic button to exterminate exploitation completely. (Not saying people should not try) We are better served shaping the world in a way where those who choose to go into nontraditional work are not stigmatized or facing social consequences.
No one is suggesting a passive approach to fixing society. Getting involved locally. Voting. Protesting. These things are not passive. And yes we do have time. Who knows this conversation could agree very badly for one of us but history has shown life does on. Society does tend to grow more progressively even if growth is slow. But you know what? Growth and progress, by and large is not measured by the number of OF models we're "saving".