Barely awake, before I’d even had my first sip of coffee, I turned on my computer to see BBC News proudly announcing: “OnlyFans to ban sex videos after BBC investigation”. My stomach churned.
I’d spent the previous night reading numerous anguished tweets from sex workers and sex worker activists, after OnlyFans, the UK-based content subscription service, had announced that it would ban porn. They were cries for help. People were scrambling to pool money for the most vulnerable, crowdsourcing for those suddenly left without an income.
OnlyFans – the most mainstream platform that still accepted sex workers, the platform made rich because of sex workers – had decided to cut them off. Yet again, a large corporation making money and fame on the backs of sex workers had abandoned them. With the help of a large, influential, international newsroom.
