How Selling Nudes on the Internet Gave me my Groove Back
Sex? In this economy?
Look, we really don’t have time to dissect late-stage capitalism, the toxic patriarchal systems that led us here and the flippant disposal of the earth’s resources. So to cut a long story short - life is fucking expensive.
Between $7 bottles of milk, uncapped rental prices, daycare fees, and a penchant for good wine and overpriced anchovies, somehow the evaporation of my respectable salary leaves me quaking each month. Cue: a surprise redundancy while growing tired of the taste of $1.25 Aldi lagers and the sinking feeling of being Completely Fucked is hard to dodge.
Just like most women have done while setting their 7:29am alarm, I googled “how to sell feet pics” and variations on “do people actually buy used underwear?” while calculating the cost of a multi-pack of g-strings from Kmart. Unsurprisingly, the market is saturated and my contingency plan went back in the top drawer for another day.
That was until a girlfriend of mine - a reluctant influencer and all-around badass - posted a cheeky new platform run by women where you can “get paid to exist.” What’s this? An opportunity to pedal smut, behind a paywall, to anonymous folks on the internet?
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