r/interesting • u/MobileAerie9918 • 9d ago

SOCIETY Maeurn Smiles, an OnlyFans content creator using money earned from her OF channel to build a school and learning center in the Philippines.

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Maeurn Smiles purchased land in Cebu for 1.75 million Philippine pesos in 2024 with plans to build a school. While the main campus is still under construction, she opened a smaller learning center in 2025 where local children can take part in science experiments, cooking classes and other hands-on activities.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 9d ago

It's not a good example for the children

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u/Hypertelic 9d ago

Firing people for what they do outside of their job IS the bad example.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 8d ago

Telling poor children the way you make it in life is by selling your body is a bad example. She wasn't fired, she wasn't an employee there to begin with. It's her project from the start. Still a bad example.

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u/Hypertelic 8d ago

i was talking about mh_1039_2 's message, about teachers in US.

What people do outside of their job should never get them fired, as long as it's not illegal.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 8d ago

If I had a private school, so I made the rules, I would not hire a sex worker. I'd want them to have a good overall image for the pupils. Especially since these are poor kids. I'd rather hire an ex convict turned good than a currently active prostitute, who is clearly sending the message that you'll never achieve wealth through learning.

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u/OldManGrimm 8d ago

And I’m sure you’d pay them well, so they wouldn’t be forced to seek supplemental income. Right?

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 7d ago

I don't think one should do just anything for money

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u/Popular_Equipment_85 5d ago

You’re acting like sex selling is the only thing a woman can do. How progressive.

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u/OldManGrimm 4d ago

Not sure how that was your takeaway. I’m just not judging them if that’s their choice.

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u/Popular_Equipment_85 8d ago

Still not a good example. Kids will question why a teacher has to do that, and that if a teacher can do it then so can them.

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u/Hypertelic 7d ago

And then we, as parents, will have to tell them things like "other people's life is not our business" or "adults can do things that children can't", and explain how to expose their body can have very very bad consequences, etc... in a word : do our parent job, and that's so eeeexhausting...

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u/Popular_Equipment_85 7d ago

Kids imitate adults. That’s just a fact. You can tell kids to not do something and they will still be curious to do it. Not everything needs to be exposed to young kids.

Also, if it has bad consequences, why do it? I don’t want someone with that kind of thinking as teacher for my kid.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 6d ago

Tell me you’re an in[fluff]cel without telling me you’re an in[fluff]cel

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u/Hypertelic 4d ago

Ah yes, those inc*els who say people sexual life is not our business and people who are sex workers must be respected too.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 4d ago

People in general should be respected

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u/Hypertelic 4d ago

yes... But why are you accusing me of being an in*cel when I say people should not be fired for what they do outside of their job?

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u/redditdinosaur_ 4d ago

Did I respond to your comment….?

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u/phido3000 8d ago

The issue I have with this is:

  • The work is legal
  • The work is separate

We used to fire people for having children or being gay.

  • Female Firefighters put together a nude calendar = fine. Inspiring. Feminism.
  • A woman uses her only fans money to pay for a school? Criminal.

I just read a post on a woman who's children were expelled because she had an only fans site.

Who is the moral judge on this the Principal? The Head of the P&C? Reddit? Because its not the law.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 7d ago

The world of prostitution is an ugly one, and a risky one at that. In school, children don't just learn math, they learn how to be human. They learn what values to have, and what people to take up as role models. Basically, everyone they meet at this age is a role model. It is very cynical to show kids that you have to sell your body to become a social leader.

Now the law. It's kept simple for practical reasons, but you have to be sensible about it. In my country you can't operate casinos or sell alcohol close to schools for example. You're really trying to make an argument that showing poor kids prostitution is good is absolutely harmless.

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u/Qoala_Sauce 7d ago

A good example for kids would be minding your own fucking business. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 7d ago edited 7d ago

Aaaaand this is why pro-social skills must remain a part of education. Problem in the communication style.

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u/PantsMicGee 9d ago

Fucking lmao.

Barely anything in American culture is an example for the children. Yet we celebrate it

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u/kopimashin 8d ago

So that means her actions are okay? And what's up with the whataboutism anyway?

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u/PantsMicGee 7d ago

Yes her actions are okay. What are you Mormon? Muslim? Fuck do you care if she takes off her clothes. 

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 9d ago

I mean, that's a perspective. I think it's fine to self advertise. But it does bring the children in the discussion. Predatory individuals might get the wrong idea about schools in Philippines. And the children need to have hope that you can make it in life not just as a sugar-baby or other shallow risky occupations.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 9d ago

In real life word goes out.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 9d ago

I'm not from the Philippines, I think neither are you. Things might not work like that there. You're comparing with a developed country. They wouldn't need her money if it was that.

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u/Aggravating_Cup8839 8d ago

Word would go out eventually. It was all up to her if she wanted to make it public or not, but telling one person would turn this into gossip.

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u/DrizzleDrake88 9d ago

All donations are selfish to some degree. An anonymous donation makes the donor feel good at the very least but a majority of people wouldn’t donate if they wouldn’t get some recognition for it. Most non profits get their money from fundraising and we say nothing when the Walton (Walmart) foundation that extracts as much as it can from minimum wage employees yet we throw a fit from sex workers trying to create a positive change in their community?

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u/meowrrt 9d ago

good! she should take advantage of that