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This show is another contender for the Rookie of the Year honors in the nudity division. Previously: This link: Beatrice Vendramin in episode 3, Beatrice Vendramin in episode 4 and Margherita Aresti in episode 4 This link: Margherita Aresti in episode 5. Share via: Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn More
Couldn’t she do BOTH a criminology degree AND OnlyFans?
Could?
Yes.
But why bother with the degree to get a job with a modest salary? She has probably already made close to the amount that law enforcement professionals make in a lifetime.
Some 35 years ago I had a fairly close relationship with a stripper. Her annual earnings were higher than mine., and I had been moving up the ladder for 20 years. If she invested and saved wisely, she would be able to retire comfortably before she aged out.
(I don’t know whether she did that. I lost touch. I’d have to go through some of my old files to even remember her real name.)
But I understand that a lot of OnlyFans performers don’t make that much – maybe the vast majority. I thought that was discussed on this forum a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn’t some of them just be doing it as a side gig to a make a bit of money to put themselves through college? And I thought that it was the same thing with stripping.
If the OnlyFans doesn’t take off, then she can go back to college. If it does take off, she can buy the effin’ college and award herself a degree if she wants one.
“Saving for college” is the rationale that many young girls use to go into stripping. As I’ve heard, the actual percentage that go back to college is approximately zero. If you are making two hundred grand a year, are you going to give that up to go to college? Of course not. You’ll keep doing it until you no longer have drawing power on the stage. If you save and invest, by the time you’ve aged out, you have enough for a life of leisure. The woman I knew, who was about 20, and not a spectacular beauty, was making a hundred grand a year in 1991. If she did that for 15 years and saved her money, the annual interest on her investments alone would amount to more than she would be making annually if she had gotten a masters degree, then moved up the ladder for ten years. But instead of grinding it out in an office to make that money, she would be retired at 35, sipping piña coladas on a beach in St. Thomas.
Of course, not many strippers had the good sense to live a modest lifestyle, stay off drugs, incorporate themselves, create solid investment plans, maybe even land a rich husband along the way. But that was certainly possible.
I have a feeling that the new influencers and OnlyFans successes are probably not choosing that wise course. They’re probably blowing their stash by living the high life.
Having never been involved with a stripper (although back in my single days, a friend of mine wanted to set me up with one – but that date never went forward for reasons I do not recall), I will take your word for all of this.
Actually, as enthusiastic as I am about female nudity, strip clubs were never my thing. I found most strip club performances (with some notable exceptions), somehow desexualized and a bit sad. Seeing a glassy-eyed performer come out already mostly nude in a string bikini and revealing bolt-on tits and a shaved pussy when she eventually was fully nude (they were early adopters of those sad trends), and then doing calisthenics around pole for 5-10 minutes did little for me. I could think of ways it could have been much more engaging: having a girl-next-door type with a friendly, smart smile come out fully dressed, then slowly and joyfully removing all of her clothes and revealing a natural body when done. But I never saw anything like that in the handful (ok, maybe double handful) of times I went to strip clubs.
I have been to many as part of my job. When I brought foreign clients over to see American convenience stores, they would inevitably request that as their nighttime activity. I agree with your assessment completely. They never give off the “college girl having fun and paying her tuition” vibe. They always contain a lingering air of deception and desperation.
I’ve never dated a stripper either. My relationship with Linda (still can’t remember her real last name) was essentially non-sexual. We didn’t meet in a club, but at the pool of my apartment when I was between foreign assignments. I knew I was headed to Austria when I finished my German immersion classes, so there was no possibility for a future, and I didn’t want to have sex with her because her life was full of high-risk behavior. We did sort of behave like a dating couple, and some of the “pool rats” assumed we were, but we weren’t. I was sort of in the “gay best friend” role that you read about. This arrangement produced a real intimacy between us. Since neither of us had anything to gain from the other, we trusted one another, and had conversations as our real selves, without the social masks people always wear. For me, it was nice to have a female sounding board and somebody to do things with, since I knew nobody in town. I had spent the last two years in Norway, and would spend the next two in Austria and Hungary. For her, it was nice to get some good financial advice and an objective appraisal of her life, without judgment. My approach was always this: If this is your career decision, figure out how to do it right, and get the most from it. I told her there were two reasons to live a modest life rather than flaunting her wealth: (1) Keep the IRS off your back. Since you’re not reporting all of your income, you have to live a life commensurate with the income you do report; (2) Save for the inevitable time when the big tips disappear and you’re not trained for any other employment. Since I am a straight arrow and don’t know how to hide large amounts of unreported income, I pointed her to a lawyer friend who showed her how to reduce her tax liability and save for the future without getting into trouble with the IRS, as so many strippers did. When I left town, I gave her all of my JFK memorabilia, because his assassination was her personal obsession.
I never saw her or heard from her again. I sent her a postcard from Austria, because she had asked me to send her my address once I got settled, but she either didn’t get it or didn’t respond. Staying in touch wasn’t as simple before the internet.
Here is a long article about the realities of becoming a young OnlyFans star.
Interesting, but ultimately quite depressing (from my perspective, at least). It seems to confirm aspects of Scoop’s viewpoint – albeit it is clear that only a small percentage of OnlyFans stars are making that amount of money. But I guess that a sufficient number of this those making less are still finding it financially worthwhile at some level. And I suppose that it is good that they at least have some control over their monetization on a platform like that.
But I must say that, as much as I admire female nudity, OnlyFans – like strip clubs – leaves me cold. I have not actually tried it out, but I think that I understand what it is about. I am not entirely sure, but perhaps it is the idea of OnyFans users thinking that they are having some having some ‘connection’ with the performers that bothers me. That connection is not real at all and could get in the way of forming actual relationships.