I believe the pricing structure of - “the less clothing and more erotic my pose, the more my rate increases” - does more to demean women than it helps to value their bodies.
I get what you are saying, but I think the issue is more about the market for taboo imagery. Bear with me here. Society in North America sees nudity as something dirty, wrong and shameful. So the result is censored nipples on Instagram, or other media. That is what creates the market for those images. If our attitude as a society normalized nudity and the human body, more like Europe, then the market demand doesn't disappear, it shifts to the next taboo, like pussy or more erotic sexual content. If we normalize that and stop censoring it in mainstream media, it's no longer quite the 'rush' of something taboo. The market demand and value drops. The problem with this human condition, is that as we lobby to normalize things like nudity and sexuality, the demand for the taboo content drives the market for more extreme content - whipping, BDSM, fetish and even underage content. That's the fly in the ointment. I have done informal studies on this, posting various types of material and tracking the demand, views and what people will pay for, and what they won't pay for. As an artist, my sole goal is to create beautiful artistic content, but it becomes driven by the audience demand, and I need to avoid falling into the trap of providing content that is not true to my heart as an artist, merely to get the recognition or appreciation that we all want. There are no easy answers to this, but lots of thought. For models, they face the same kind of dilemma as I do as a photographer - they may want to keep to a certain genre, but it's the taboo photos or videos that pay the bills. The root cause is the demand, and that just keeps escalating as more models and photographers (myself included) create more taboo work to get those views, or income or validation, which then ups the ante to stand out from others.
I get what you are saying, but I think the issue is more about the market for taboo imagery. Bear with me here. Society in North America sees nudity as something dirty, wrong and shameful. So the result is censored nipples on Instagram, or other media. That is what creates the market for those images. If our attitude as a society normalized nudity and the human body, more like Europe, then the market demand doesn't disappear, it shifts to the next taboo, like pussy or more erotic sexual content. If we normalize that and stop censoring it in mainstream media, it's no longer quite the 'rush' of something taboo. The market demand and value drops. The problem with this human condition, is that as we lobby to normalize things like nudity and sexuality, the demand for the taboo content drives the market for more extreme content - whipping, BDSM, fetish and even underage content. That's the fly in the ointment. I have done informal studies on this, posting various types of material and tracking the demand, views and what people will pay for, and what they won't pay for. As an artist, my sole goal is to create beautiful artistic content, but it becomes driven by the audience demand, and I need to avoid falling into the trap of providing content that is not true to my heart as an artist, merely to get the recognition or appreciation that we all want. There are no easy answers to this, but lots of thought. For models, they face the same kind of dilemma as I do as a photographer - they may want to keep to a certain genre, but it's the taboo photos or videos that pay the bills. The root cause is the demand, and that just keeps escalating as more models and photographers (myself included) create more taboo work to get those views, or income or validation, which then ups the ante to stand out from others.