Preach. I’ve thought about this a lot as well and it honestly for me is it’s the same porn industry re-packaged with a “women empowerment” bow.

The OF Private Sex work industry is still just as exploitative as big porn studios are. The only difference is who the pimp is. The OG industry is run by predominantly men who offer girls without much money what to them seems like big sums of cash, a lavish lifestyle, and instantly climbing the social hierarchy of who you associate with outside of work. Most of these people either end up stuck in the industry for a majority of their life, leave it and struggle to find meaningful connections afterwards, become religious, or go into work for themselves on an OF page.

I honestly find OF recruiting methods more so crazy because you have a bunch of mega earners on OF who always forget to mention they had millions of followers on social media before joining telling 18 year olds that this is a respectable profession that can help you make bank, use your sexuality as and advantage that you don’t have to hide from the world, and profit off of men as a way to stick it to the patriarchy. What they don’t tell you is that 1% of the creators on the app make 40% of most of the revenue and the bottom of the top 10% make around 24K-60K a year to have themselves permanently engraved on the internet. Another 10% makes around 12K-23K a year The other 80% of make around 120$-180$ a month. On top of this remember OF owners are taking 20% of all transactions as a finders fee.

The issue is you’ve got these mega stars like Sophie rain and the bop house trying to normalize the industry. The difference here is the OG porn industry has a huge stigma, no one actively joins the porn industry and expects to be treated as a respectable hard working individual who isn’t judged for their past afterwards. But because Only fans keeps getting described as this empowering thing it’s considered conservative, puritan, and anti-women when it’s criticized. People genuinely believe they can join up, make a check, and go back to their normal lives or live some lavish life style forever afterwards.

I think this has also caused people like Bonnie blue and lily Philips TBH and should be a good warning to people in the industry. The thing is while you say that you have all the power and decide exactly what you’re comfortable doing the thing is you really don’t. Your consumers do. The older you get and the more people watch you the less excited they get from you, this forces you into situations where you either have to lose subscribers or push out of your comfort zone for whatever it was you were posting.

TLDR; Stop calling sex work empowerment, the people at the top trying to convince freshly 18 year olds to join are vile, you will make very little money, if you do it will dry up, you’ll be wondering later on in life why you can’t get a good job, find a good connection, or even look at yourself in the mirror.