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Good point. But it's tangential to the issue of whether or not engaging in (legal) paid sex-industry work is an ethical choice of occupation. A woman/man who posts their topless/naked pics on the internet for free (swingers forums etc) and is subsequently recognised and reposted elsewhere by someone could have the same problems in later life as these OF content producers.
She really should have seen that one coming! Law firms are notorious for being very conservative and have clauses in their employment contracts prohibiting their employees from doing anything that might damage their reputations. Many multinationals and big corporations in non-legal fields also have similar clauses.
Even if she had disguised her face to prevent anyone from recognising her from her OF pics she could still have been fired after becoming a para-legal simply for having once possessed an OF sellers account and posting her personal pics on it.
I do find it strange that people posting those sort of pics (who plan to have a normal family/personal life afterwards) don't take some steps to at least disguise their faces. Just wearing a masquerade mask and a wig would make it virtually impossible for someone who is not very close to them to recognise them in such pics.
Only Fans is just the most recent and well known of many internet platforms which offer a marketplace for this sort of amateur-produced pornography. There's nothing unique about it, the monetisation of home-made porn has been going on since the internet became popular in the late 1990s.
Yes, anyone who works in the sex industry (and is identifiable by members of the public) should be very aware that some professions/walks-of-life are going to be closed to them thereafter. Unfortunately, some people just don't think it through though.
For example, I recently read about a Dominatrix in New Jersey who made many very severe (up to ABH/GBH level) BDSM videos with men (which were sold widely internationally) and who many years later successfully became a Police Officer only to get fired a few months afterwards when she was recognised by one of her male porn-surfing colleagues!
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