🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Why are we so against art theft until the art was made by a sexworker?
If you see accounts that get off on posting stolen nudes, tell them to get off Fedi.
It's art theft. Report them.
My body, my right to share it.
Ugh, reporting some of these porn accounts makes me sad. Some of them share pretty hot stuff, and I *do* like erotic art (hence all the work I've put into my own).
**BUT** that doesn't make those accounts any less gross and violating. #PornRequiresConsent, because without consent, it's sexual harassment *and* copyright infringement (at the least).
Not to mention:
- reposting someone else's nudes is theft
- it falls under anti-revenge-porn laws
- it might be CSAM (you can't know if they're 18)
- it's just fucking gross and parasitic
Support local artists and sex workers — boost their stuff, subscribe to their sites, link to them.
Don't make Fedi a hostile place for women by following these shitty accounts (or worse, running one); report them instead, and let folx know you side with the artists here, not the art thieves.
When adult content creators (such as myself) share our work, we're consenting to share *that* specific work, in *that* specific context. It's not a blanket consent. We don't waive our copyright or our ownership of our bodies by posting online.
If you want (especially *free*) adult content, treat it like the gift it is, and treat the models with the respect they deserve. Consent matters, *always*.
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Personally, I give everything I make away for free—adult content isn't my profession. And I *love* it when other folx enjoy what I make. If my nudes are your jam, then by all means enjoy them! Feel free to browse or download. I don't even mind if you share *a* photo or two privately with someone.
But please don't try to profit off of my work—even if it's under the guise of "appreciating beauty" or whatever. You don't have permission to use me like that, and it's the quickest way to convince artists to stop sharing their work publicly.
#PSA: posting someone else's nudes without their consent is fucked up, and also illegal.
- it doesn't matter if you "don't own these images" —I already guessed you weren't a collective of teen girls or their agent.
- it doesn't matter if you "found them online" —they weren't your fucking photos to share.
- it doesn't matter if I can "message you to have a photo removed" —see point #2, asshole.
Not only are these porn reposting accounts *nonconsensually* using the bodies of (mostly) young women to earn themselves fake internet points, they're also (in many places) breaking existing anti-revenge-porn laws. It should also be pointed out that, because the photos are stolen, they have no reasonable assurance of the subject's age, so it's entirely possible they're also posting child porn—and ignorance of the subject's age isn't a defense.
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So help make Fedi safer for femme-presenting folx and for responsible sex-work. Stop these shitty porn repost accounts that profit off of other people's bodies. Call them out. Report them. Get them suspended.
(but please don't dogpile or attack them—there's still a person in there somewhere, and with any luck they're redeemable)