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Another entertainer I’ve not quite heard of has announced she’s sticking it to the man by getting her arse out. This time it’s singer Kate Nash. Following in the footsteps of Lily Allen, who announced she was flogging pictures of her feet on OnlyFans (OF), Nash explained that was putting her bum on DIY pornography platform. The 37-year-old claimed it was a “punk protest about how little our music is valued.” She is now selling snaps to subscribers for $10 per month as part of a “BUTTS 4 Tour Buses” fundraising campaign. Nash’s posterior has indeed proved to be more lucrative than her music, something she has predictably described as “empowering”.
For decades feminists have fought for women to be respected for their work, not their sex appeal. By making a quick buck from bum pics Nash has literally rolled over, sending a message to her young female fans that the best position they can hope for is to be prone. At a time when the arts sector is full of creatives boycotting Israel and ousting dissidents for wrongthink, it is disgraceful that two apparently intelligent women have allowed themselves to stand on the side of men like Andrew Tate. Whether they like it or not, Nash, Allen and the host of other privileged performers trying to be edgy are role models. Do they really want to teach the next generation of girls that their talent lies in their arse?
While men might drive the pornography business, they have accomplices in women like Nash and Allen. The traditional feminist response to women in the sex industry is to see them as victims — as making hard decisions because they lack real choices. Successful women opting to commodify themselves upend this analysis. It seems unlikely that a pimp is pulling their strings, and producing porn may well pay better than singing. But the problem is what happens downstream of such decisions. This year Reuters conducted an in-depth investigation into OF, uncovering stories from women who said they had been “deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site”. Some were imprisoned by abusive partners, others found themselves locked in a cycle where they were expected to perform ever more extreme acts to keep the cash coming in. The journalists uncovered evidence that in suburban settings all across the US, criminals had beaten, raped and imprisoned women they forced to perform on OF, with some tattooing their names, or words including “dog” and “toy” on the victims.
Another entertainer I’ve not quite heard of has announced she’s sticking it to the man by getting her arse out. This time it’s singer Kate Nash. Following in the footsteps of Lily Allen, who announced she was flogging pictures of her feet on OnlyFans (OF), Nash explained that was putting her bum on DIY pornography platform. The 37-year-old claimed it was a “punk protest about how little our music is valued.” She is now selling snaps to subscribers for $10 per month as part of a “BUTTS 4 Tour Buses” fundraising campaign. Nash’s posterior has indeed proved to be more lucrative than her music, something she has predictably described as “empowering”.
For decades feminists have fought for women to be respected for their work, not their sex appeal. By making a quick buck from bum pics Nash has literally rolled over, sending a message to her young female fans that the best position they can hope for is to be prone. At a time when the arts sector is full of creatives boycotting Israel and ousting dissidents for wrongthink, it is disgraceful that two apparently intelligent women have allowed themselves to stand on the side of men like Andrew Tate. Whether they like it or not, Nash, Allen and the host of other privileged performers trying to be edgy are role models. Do they really want to teach the next generation of girls that their talent lies in their arse?
While men might drive the pornography business, they have accomplices in women like Nash and Allen. The traditional feminist response to women in the sex industry is to see them as victims — as making hard decisions because they lack real choices. Successful women opting to commodify themselves upend this analysis. It seems unlikely that a pimp is pulling their strings, and producing porn may well pay better than singing. But the problem is what happens downstream of such decisions. This year Reuters conducted an in-depth investigation into OF, uncovering stories from women who said they had been “deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site”. Some were imprisoned by abusive partners, others found themselves locked in a cycle where they were expected to perform ever more extreme acts to keep the cash coming in. The journalists uncovered evidence that in suburban settings all across the US, criminals had beaten, raped and imprisoned women they forced to perform on OF, with some tattooing their names, or words including “dog” and “toy” on the victims.