To blur or not to blur, that is the question?
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The only person who can decide whether you should show your face is you.
There's a lot to consider before you show your face (and that's not to say you shouldn't). But you need to identify your 'WHY' and get really specific about it. What do you want to achieve by showing your face? If your only 'why' is that you want to make more money, then I want you to stop and think about other ways to achieve the same result. I want to challenge you to get creative before you take the step of showing your face.
If your 'why' is rooted in the belief that all successful sex workers show their faces, then I want you to throw that belief right into the bin where it belongs. Do not succumb to the pressure of showing your face just because that's what you think all the cool kids are doing.
Sure, you might see Escort X on Twitter showing her face, and she is going on 7-day bookings to the Maldives and getting gifted a Birkin. But I want to remind you that Twitter is smoke and mirrors. This comparison between yourself and an escort's Twitter profile is entirely false because what an escort shows on shows on Twitter isn't real life.
Don’t compare yourself to others when it comes to protecting your own privacy.
Facial blurring seems like the perfect solution if you want to keep your identity private. It only takes a few clicks on an app to dissolve your face into a puddle of indistinguishable colour. But in a world where technology changes in the blink of an eye, is facial blurring enough to protect your privacy as a sex worker?
You need to ask yourself who you're trying to protect your privacy from.
A blur might make your unrecognisable to loved ones. Although, if this is your primary reason for blurring your face, I want to challenge you to a quick exercise: present a trusted friend with a line-up of blurred photos and see if they can identify you. I bet they can. When I'm scrolling through escort directories, I can always identify my friends, even if I don't know their working name.
You don’t need to blur to protect your privacy.
- Cover your face. Get creative and use props or poses to hide your face in photographs. Common methods are looking over your shoulder, shots taken from behind, or holding a book up to your face. It's easier not to show your face in your photos at all, rather than trying to blur or cover it later.
- Crop your face. Another option is to crop your head and shoulders out of the photo completely. This method won't work for all images, but it may salvage some photoshoot photos you have previously blurred.
- Use a box. No, not a cardboard box. If you can't cover or crop your face, the next best option is to cover your face with a box in post-production – think of a big black square over your face. Research demonstrates that artificial intelligence has more difficulty recognising a face covered with a black or white box than a blurred face3 (still, it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE for the artificial intelligence to identify the person, even it when their face was completely covered by the box).
- The first thing I thought when I read this research was, "Oh great, because my escorting photos are going to look so good with a giant box over my face." I guess it depends on how serious you are about protecting your privacy.
- Finally, use software like Fawkes.6 Fawkes is free software that subtly modifies elements of a photo before it is uploaded to the internet. The image won't look any different to the naked eye, but the changes make it more difficult for artificial intelligence to recognise your face. Once the changes are made by software, you can then blur or place a box over the altered image for extra security.
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