i wanted to touch on the new onlyfans rule changes (going in..

i wanted to touch on the new onlyfans rule changes (going into affect on october 1). i know i talked a lot about this on socials but it’s more relevant to those of you who actually use this site, so i’ll do a more in depth post here! i’m writing on my phone so i apologize in advance for the casual, twitter style writing & lack of capitalization. luckily (for me), this change does not seem to affect me since the wildest thing i ever did on here was send someone a PPV of my butt h0le 😹 in fact, this change is probably going to make me a lot better about using this account since apparently there will be an app which will make it 1000x easier to reply to messages regularly. it will also allow me to post a lot more content since i won’t have to worry about going through an intense age verification process just to post a selfie with a friend. right now i’m extremely restricted with the content i can post even though it isn’t sexual in nature. so if anything, my account & subscribers will benefit from these changes as it will make this site much easier to use (for me) and allow me to respond to messages more regularly & post way more content. HOWEVER, just because i can selfishly realize these changes probably benefit how i use the site, i’m also extremely aware of how these changes will negatively impact thousands & thousands of sex workers who use this site to sell explicit videos & no longer have a safe space to do that. you may see many big name performers saying “we’ll be okay” & they likely will. they have millions of followers who they can easily move to other platforms. they may see a small hit to their income, but they will be OKAY. the people who will be most negatively affected by this are the non-famous sex workers who worked for years to build small followings & live month to month on their earnings. a lot of those people don’t have other options for income & even one month of being without income could be seriously detrimental to their lives. if you sub to any people like this, i encourage you to keep their situations in mind over the next month & bless them with a little extra generosity if possible. & if you have any questions about this stuff, feel free to ask me (drop a comment if you send a DM about it since my inbox is a MESS currently lol) instead of asking those people going through a lot right now to constantly talk about this. as someone who is a retired sex worker who still associates heavily with that world, i am happy to do the emotional labor of chatting about this with y’all so they don’t have to. let’s let them worry about themselves at the moment! finally, it’s important for everyone to realize that these changes will likely not just impact onlyfans & are not simply the result of the company waking up one day & deciding they no longer want to deal with the risk. mastercard is initiating changes to their use policy on october 1 that require sites selling adult content to review ALL content *before* it is posted & moderate livestreams in real time. these changes will obviously cost a lot of money to implement and people fear that other payment services will soon follow. if that happens, the porn industry as we currently know it will cease to exist. this is not a new attack. when i started in the adult industry in 2013, tons of porn performers were struggling with having their bank accounts shut down. i was always very grateful that i had been gifted a USAA account by my father because that’s never been an issue with them. last year, a friend of mine who has a patreon & onlyfans where she posts nudes (not even porn!) and barely scrapes by had her pvypal shut down for SUSPECTED “illegal activity” during a pandemic. the wildest part was that they kept the money in it!!! they decided the money was earned illegally (based on nothing) & that she therefore had no right to keep it, but had no problem keeping this “illegal” money themselves. upsettingly, she also used her account with them to collect money on depop where she sold used clothes as a side hustle. because of her link to “sex work,” her ability to make money outside of it was also impacted - a common experience for many sex workers. the fact that major financial institutions can decide to shut down your ability to make money and steal money you earned due to SUSPECTING something without providing a way to challenge or appeal it is absolutely insane & should disturb everyone! whether they’re closing bank accounts, shutting down places like backpage where sex workers can more safely vet clients, or removing safe spaces like onlyfans where they can sell content without putting themselves at risk, these attacks on sex workers are not a new thing & have been going on for years behind the scenes. why is this happening? well, if you’re not already aware, the “anti trvfficking” industry is mostly made up of extremist christian organizations who spend millions of dollars every year to push their agenda. yes, there are good anti trvfficking orgs who do good work, but A LOT of them are puritanical in nature & do not see any difference between consensual & NC sex work. they do not believe consensual sex work is a real thing & they spend a ton of money to convince others of the same thing. one of these groups has been around since the 60s. it was initially known as the “morality in media” group & teamed up with Nixon in the 70s to ensure “obscenity laws” were upheld after a committee appointed by Lyndon B Johnson recommended that all adult obscenity laws be repealed. this group went on to condemn all kinds of “salacious” media from movies to madonna’s work. they are anti masturbation & anti porn. their purpose in life is to abolish all pornography, criminalize all sex work, & ultimately censor all media & art they find to be “unchristian” according to their extremist views. as society became a little more sex positive & open minded, these goals obviously didn’t jive with most sane people, so they adapted. in 2015 they changed their name to the “national center of sexual exploitation” & began to heavily focus their efforts on equating ALL sex work & pornography with trvfficking. this works because NO ONE is okay with trvfficking & everyone is upset by the idea of people, particular k1ds, being sexually exploited. these orgs can get people emotionally primed to receive misinformation & make it incredibly hard to dissent without looking like you don’t care about victims. as fucked up as it is, it’s also genius. another similar group known as exodus cry does the same. they block all consensual sex workers on social media because they don’t fit into their narrative that sex work isn’t inherently exploitive. they are not interested in making the lives of sex workers or trvfficking victims better or safer. their only goal is to eradicate it entirely (aka push it underground to the black market) regardless of the cost or the danger they put sex workers in. sadly, even many consensual sex workers (generally porn stars who are out of touch with everyday sex workers) & their so-called allies fall prey to these multi million dollar misinformation campaigns. you will see this with “sex positive & liberal” politicians who insist that the Nordic Model is what’s best for sex workers & victims even though research doesn’t support that claim for either group. i recently saw a “progressive” candidate supporting this model on twitter & claiming to care about sex workers. her tweet was drowning in thousands of replies from sex workers AND trvfficking survivors posting research & their personal experiences, but she had no interest in engaging with them. she, of course, had fallen victim to misinformation & used that misinformation to justify ignoring the very group of people she claims to want to help. one of the best ways to sus out which organizations & politicians are educated & actually have sex workers well-being in mind is by finding out if they support decrim. decrim is widely supported among sex workers and it’s what the legitimate, peer reviewed research says is most helpful for everyone involved, whether they’re consensual or not. i’ve even had to argue with many porn fans about this when i posted pro-decrim stuff on my socials because misinformation is so common, while actual sex worker stories & needs are routinely ignored. if they don’t support decrim, they’re either a victim of misinformation or a bad player who may even be responsible for the misinformation. either way, they’re not a good source of information. i tell you all this because we ALL need to be vigilante about misinformation. do not take statistics posted on any website, particularly anti-trvfficking sites, for granted. identify what study those numbers came from & evaluate the validity of the study based on the design and who funded it. i know it’s easy to brush this stuff off when it doesn’t affect us, but the truth is that it may someday do just that. if we allow extremist groups to use millions of dollars to spread misinformation & manipulate policy that harms marginalized groups, it’s only a matter of time before they set their sites on other targets. i would hope that most of you value the safety & well-being of sex workers, but even if you are just a sex positive person who values freedom in the mainstream media, this should concern you! i’m attaching a twitter thread to this post that i found very concise & informative that touches on a lot of what i just said. please drop a comment if you sent me a DM with questions about any of this stuff & i will prioritize those messages. i am also putting together a list of resources where you can find more information & learn how you can help, so i’ll share that asap! xoxo, cc *EDITED because the asterisks i was using on certain w…