Unpopular Opinion

I'm not sure this is an unpopular opinion tbh. In one form or another, large swaths of humanity have tried to reduce or eliminate trading of sexual favors for ages. I'd have to go digging, but it goes back to before christianity for sure.

But the way you've expressed it is maybe new enough to count as unpopular.

Anyway, I get what you're saying. But I'd argue that it's more sex as a commodity that's a problem because if people are exchanging sex on an individual level, it may be commercialized, but it isn't inherently harmful, or bad for society. When it becomes a broad issue is when the hobby humanity is stripped away and the people become sex objects. That's my opinion anyway.

I'd argue that onlyfans is part of the problem not because people are exchanging goods for services that are sexual, but because that trade is brokered by a third party, and often done because society has failed the person selling their sexuality so that it seems like a necessity, thereby making it not a choice.

In other words if onlyfans was an open system that didn't generate profits for a third party, it would be no better or worse than a message board for swingers. Yeah, it can be argued that money being involved makes it "worse" than swinging, but I don't agree with that. What makes prostitution a bad thing is not in the exchange of money, it's the accoutrements. Which is a tangent, so back to your post.

You'd likely be amazed at how many services there are that exist partially to monetize meeting people for friendly interactions. Depends on how far you stretch the idea, but there's social clubs all over the world that exist for that purpose, and charge fees to join/enter. Taken to an extreme of the idea, things like Masonic lodges are under that umbrella. It isn't the same thing as onlyfans, but it isn't so far off that it can't be said the dues are partially a fee to make friends of strangers.

I'm with you regarding the invasion of communities for adults and sexuality by what amounts to advertising. There's places for that, but the onlyfans producers refuse to limit themselves to those spaces. I block all the pic/vid communities from your instance, but I leave the text based ones alone, so I've seen the OF spam in those communities, as well as the debate about them being allowed on gonewild type communities where the content is supposed to be by legitimate users, not promotional accounts. It's bullshit, and if I ran nsfw spaces, I would ban it utterly from that type of community.