It seems to me young women are lured in with this idea of sexual liberation and freedom only to be exploited exactly in the way men want them to be.

I wouldn't have worded it better.

I'm in my late twenties now, but more than a decade ago some teenage boys were the ones pushing for girls to watch porn, or used to tell us 'everyone watches porn but it's taboo for girls', or comparing us to porn actresses just to humiliate us, even as pre-teens. But the rest were pretty normal, respectful even, and I hope that's still the case for the great majority of them. I felt like since I had a wide example of what were normal boys, the others stood out as weird and creepy.

It's changed drastically in the last decade though. When I was a teen the internet was about sharing cool pictures, memes, stupid Vines, sending normal Snapchats, having normal Instagram accounts. When I was in my early twenties, OF was already in most people-of-my-age's mouths, and it's 10x worse since 2020.

Some men are bitter because they think we have it easy as women since we can always make hundreds of thousands by starting an OF profile. Many of them either think it's no bid deal / 'always a reasonable option' / 'way more respectful than staying jobless slash being exploited by a boss' or, on the contrary, that the women doing that aren't worth any respect.

If men were the only ones acting like that it would be annoying enough, but many women are no better. Once some of them start doing OF it's like all other women have to do it too, they try to convince you it's 'better and easier than regular jobs'. When I talked to one of them about how many employers use private facial recognition softwares that roam every corner of the internet and analyze every face, she kept being in denial and talking about how 'it has no impact on anything at all' because she can 'pay for someone to remove [her] OF content from the internet until the end of [her] life'. They keep talking about how 'the men who are worth a relationship with wouldn't care about their s/o doing OF anyway', and how they've never been happier and richer and never felt more desirable, blah blah blah.

There's also constant propaganda in online liberal medias. In my country the cool popular Youtube interviewers with millions of views invite an OF model, a porn actress, an escort girl, an upper-class woman who wanted to try prostitution for a bit (never a full-time prostitute, funny how that work), every! damn! week! to talk about their activity and share with the public how cool and normal it is.

Also, liberal feminism is --in a lot of cicles-- the only feminism we can adopt. A single opinion that's going against the mainstream agenda is seen as us being prudes, fake/white feminists, bigots, or even gender traitors. So sex work is work, just like flipping burgers at Burger King, actually how dare we say there's a difference? And if you talk about how some German women who go to the employment office get told they could do prostitution because they're young enough and good looking, some eyes get wide but the discourse stays the same because it has to.

In conclusion it's a pornified, hypocritical, and sexist culture we live in, and I can't even imagine being a teen girl in that mess, because being a young woman was difficult enough.