Much like Patreon, which, if we look back to a few years ago, was once primarily known for nudes and “lewds”. But now, it is in the process of gentrifying. The success and popularity of OnlyFans has come because of the sex work industry. Many pornstars have migrated from big budget companies to working an OnlyFans account because the cut is more fair and they have greater control over their content. OnlyFans is synonymous with personalized, independent adult content. We dove into working to build online platforms, and for many people that meant joining OnlyFans. Many sex work activist groups began mutual aid fundraising in lieu of governmental support. And this is only addressing those of us in the legal lane of adult entertainment. In many states where strippers are misclassified as independent contractors, dancers realized they would not receive PUA support whether it be because strip clubs failed to declare them to evade taxes or because adult entertainers simply did not qualify. While many people received support from the Care Act, many sex workers learned they were ineligible due to a “prurient business” exclusion clause. It is an incredibly difficult time for everyone, but particularly sex workers. Every day I repost Venmo requests for displaced trans sex workers facing homelessness mothers camming to stay above the poverty line and the links to profiles of sex workers whose accounts have been deleted, who have been forced to start their businesses from scratch.
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Between helping run a stripper union a podcast devoted to creating an archive of interviews with sex workers paired with stories of heauxs throughout history and creating content for my personal sex work page, I have spoken to a lot of sex workers. It is one of the few safe means to earn income in adult entertainment while social distancing it is available for people to do remotely and the overhead costs are relatively low. The camming industry, and by extension OnlyFans, saw an unprecedented influx of new users. Due to the closure of in-person sex work establishments such as strip clubs, massage parlors, and brothels due to Covid-19, there has been a mass migration from IRL to URL. I along with other sex work activists immediately took to social media to express my outrage over this clumsy experiment in privilege. The backlash following Bella Thorne’s creation of an OnlyFans account was more or less immediate.
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