{"id":226850,"date":"2021-04-14T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/onlyfans-covid-19-pandemic-have-spurred-a-new-sexual-revolution\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:36:18","slug":"onlyfans-covid-19-pandemic-have-spurred-a-new-sexual-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/onlyfans-covid-19-pandemic-have-spurred-a-new-sexual-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"#OnlyFans, COVID-19 pandemic have spurred a new sexual revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#OnlyFans, COVID-19 pandemic have spurred a new sexual revolution<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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No one is more surprised that Sonja Morgan is the fourth-most popular star on OnlyFans than Sonja Morgan.<\/p>\n

She is, after all, 57 years old and most famous as a longstanding \u201cReal Housewife of New York.\u201d Not the sort of person you\u2019d expect on a platform comprised mainly of nudes and homemade soft-core porn.<\/p>\n

But Morgan, who is always looking to expand her empire (toaster ovens and a Nigerian football team are among the doomed enterprises known to \u201cRHONY\u201d fans), thought there might be room on OnlyFans for her brand of middle-aged flooziness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m known on the show as \u2018Sexy Sonja,\u2019 or \u2018Sexy J,\u2019 \u201d she tells The Post. \u201cI\u2019m always the first to go naked in the pool. I date younger guys. I have all these videos [of me] running around naked at swimsuit parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan first joined OnlyFans<\/a> last July, right after recovering from a neck- and facelift. While that detail alone makes her a softcore outlier, consider that the \u201cRHONY\u201d audience consists largely of high-income, highly educated white women and gay men.<\/p>\n

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Sonja Morgan, 57, is one of the most popular stars of OnlyFans.<\/span>Sophy Holland\/Bravo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Morgan explains \u2014 as only she can \u2014 \u201cI walk into Cipriani, and it\u2019s people who went to Harvard or Yale \u2014 that\u2019s who\u2019s watching the show. I\u2019m well known internationally, for my lifestyle, as a model and philanthropist who was married to JPM.\u201d (That\u2019s banking scion John Adams Morgan, known to intimates as JPM.)<\/p>\n

In other words, selling one\u2019s sexuality online is becoming a side hustle without stigma. Once upon a time, a reality star under contract to a high-profile cable network would likely be fired for sex work on the side. It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, was strip<\/a>ped of her title for having posed nude, after her pictures were purchased and published by Penthouse magazine.<\/p>\n

A nation gasped. Today, we yawn.<\/p>\n

Now a major movie star such as Michael B. Jordan<\/a> creates an OnlyFans account (close-up of him biting his lower lip as bait) to zero scandal. Beyonc\u00e9 name-checks OnlyFans in Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s \u201cSavage,\u201d and the site gets a 15 percent uptick in traffic in 24 hours. Blac Chyna, Cardi B.<\/a>, Tyga<\/a>, \u201cTeen Wolf\u201d star Tyler Posey<\/a> \u2014 all are top content creators, sexualizing their content as little or as much as they choose.<\/p>\n

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Sonja Morgan is the fourth-most popular OnlyFans star.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the celebrities are just a tiny fraction of OnlyFan users. It\u2019s attracted college students, housewives and married couples. From average people who will show you everything <\/em>to those who offer more of a tease. Since the lockdown, OnlyFans reported a spike of 7.5 million users in November 2019 to 85 million in December 2020. The Guardian Australia<\/a> reported that OnlyFans now claims 85 million global users with a 2020 payout of $2.7 billion to its content creators. As the Guardian put it, \u201cEveryone and their mum is on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where once male gatekeepers determined who and what was sexy \u2014 from strip clubs to burlesque dancers to Playboy bunnies and nude models \u2014 now there are no barriers to entry. Women, men, trans, gender fluid, any age, race, weight \u2014 if you want to be on OnlyFans, all you have to do is sign up. And unlike OnlyFans\u2019 nearest competitor, PornHub, all the content you create belongs to you; the site takes only 20 percent of creator income.<\/p>\n

We are in the midst of another sexual revolution, ignited by the collision of technology<\/a> and a generational shift in attitude. The power that women especially derive from online sex work, from setting their own parameters and prices, has transformed our ideas of who participates and why. Not to mention a global pandemic that has left many financially strapp<\/a>ed, ready to take advantage of audiences still mostly confined to their homes.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Vaughn, 25, launched her OnlyFans account in January 2020. She says she was on track to become the first female master technician at her Honda dealership in Indiana, but her take-home pay after taxes, about $450 a week, wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Vaughn was fired from her mechanic job once her bosses discovered her OnlyFans.<\/figcaption>
Credit: @ms.reds.wrenching\/insta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSix months before joining OnlyFans, I was trying to find a second job,\u201d she tells The Post. With no luck, Vaughn decided to join the site and quickly averaged an additional $1,000 a week in gross income \u2014 $800 net.<\/p>\n

For Vaughn, however, joining OnlyFans wasn\u2019t just about money. It was about finding her place as a woman in a male-dominated field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first started out in the industry, I was always getting questions about being female: \u2018Why are you even here?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Vaughn found herself trying, as she puts it, to \u201celiminate parts of my femininity\u201d in a quest to be seen as neither male nor female \u2014 just another employee, one particularly good at her job. It didn\u2019t work, and when she got the idea to join OnlyFans, it wasn\u2019t just a way to make money. It was a way to enjoy wearing \u201cmake-up and cute clothes, being girly and feminine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her parents, she says, didn\u2019t have a problem with it; for her dad, it was simply a matter of delivery systems changing. His generation had magazines; her generation has the internet.<\/p>\n

Then came the day a salesman at her dealership approached.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018I just saw more of you than I ever wanted to see \u2014 no offense.\u2019 I was pretty disgusted,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I was really scared that what would happen, happened\u201d \u2014 she was let go.<\/p>\n

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Kristen Vaughn called out hypocrisy on her termination from her mechanic job.<\/figcaption>
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Vaughn still doesn\u2019t understand why she was fired while the two salesmen who viewed her content at work weren\u2019t punished equally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me they didn\u2019t care that their salesmen were watching porn on the floor during work hours,\u201d Vaughn says. \u201cI was a distraction in the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n

General<\/a> manager John Watkins told The Post that Vaughn was fired for \u201cviolation of company procedures and policies,\u201d which he declined to specify.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey told me they didn\u2019t care that their salesmen were watching porn on the floor during work hours. I was a distraction in the shop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kristen Vaughn<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Vaughn\u2019s firing made headlines \u2014 especially as people the world over, out of work due to the pandemic, turned to OnlyFans as a money-making venture. Vaughn felt no shame, only anger: How many of her critics, she asks, watch porn? Why the double standard \u2014 that it\u2019s okay for men to consume porn, but the women who create it should be ostracized, vilified and made to suffer?<\/p>\n

That said, Vaughn would warn anyone planning to join OnlyFans, or to pursue any online sex work, that everyone in your life will eventually find out. She is part of a generation who will not just need to explain social media<\/a> histories to future employers \u2014 or who may be fired for decades-old tweets \u2014 but who will have online sexual histories as well.<\/p>\n

So when Vaughn interviewed for her new job at another car dealership, she openly spoke about her OnlyFans presence. No one cared.<\/p>\n

Her main concern, she says, is her personal safety: Yes, sex work online, be it as a cam girl (often not nearly as profitable) or an OnlyFans creator, protects one from strange people and places and physical harm, be it violence or STDs. But that very technology also makes it easy for strangers to stalk her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the public eye to a certain extent,\u201d Vaughn says, \u201cand in a way I don\u2019t have any anonymity. If some creepy guy wants to find me, all he has to do is show up.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Vaughn is her own boss \u2014 a role that women in sex work have never had before.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnlyFans is no different than the [old-fashioned] peep shows,\u201d says Marina Adshade, a professor specializing in the economics of sex and love. But with peep shows, there were still owners, typically men, who controlled hiring, salaries, frequency of work and work hours, to say nothing of the abysmal sanitary conditions.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine any sex worker in 2021, liberated by modern technology, putting up with any of that?<\/p>\n

\u201cOnlyFans and cam girls can only be seen as a good thing,\u201d Adshade says. \u201cIf someone is a sex worker of their own accord \u2014 I see no downsides to this.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Stephanie Michelle says her OnlyFans account has helped support her family.<\/figcaption>
Courtesy of Stephanie Michelle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephanie Michelle has been on OnlyFans for about four years, after her former platform Patreon stepped back from sexual content. The pandemic has been more profitable than she could have predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What\u2019s happening?\u2019 \u201d she tells The Post. \u201c \u2019I\u2019m just posting my boobs on the internet!\u2019 Business has been booming. All of us are at home bored out of our minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

She won\u2019t divulge her age (\u201cWhen you\u2019re a sex worker over 30, you lose half your clientele\u201d) or her monthly income, but her base rate, $14.99 per month, has helped support her husband (out of work as a cinematographer) and their three cats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t do penetration,\u201d she says. \u201cBut then I learned you could literally crochet scarves on OnlyFans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Bella Thorne. Though you can post whatever you like to OnlyFans, from cooking to decorating videos, it\u2019s known for its sexual content. So when Thorne joined, fans flocked with the promise of a former Disney star gone bad. She remained clothed.<\/p>\n

In the wake of massive backlash to what some users considered false advertising, OnlyFans capped the amount creators can charge. As of last August, $50 is the limit for exclusive content per month (think of it as paying for an additional streaming service), with a $100 cap on tips.<\/p>\n

\u201cBella Thorne made promises and didn\u2019t deliver, and that makes sex workers look bad,\u201d Michelle says. \u201cShe\u2019s making us look like we don\u2019t care about our fans, or are liars and cheats. The price cap didn\u2019t affect my business \u2014 however, that doesn\u2019t make me any less pissed off about the cap. I\u2019m very upset for my friends\u201d \u2014 other content creators suffering as a result.<\/p>\n

Michelle sees OnlyFans as a net positive, one that is forcing society to reconsider what it means to sell one\u2019s image, likeness, or body. Why is it, she asks, more harmful to sell oneself virtually than in the real world, and why do we consider some forms of commodification valid and good, but not others?<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Michelle says she interacts with her subscribers on OnlyFans<\/figcaption>
Courtesy of Stephanie Michelle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAthletes sell their bodies,\u201d she says. \u201cFootball players and boxers get brain damage. In my opinion, that is more harmful than me putting my t\u2014s online. No one is forcing me to post nudes or make content I don\u2019t want to make. I\u2019m basically an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle also has direct conversations with individual subscribers, many of whom, she says, are looking to feel less anxious and lonely in lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelationships have been stripped from us for a full year,\u201d Michelle says. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful I was able to help people de-stress in a year that was only stress.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Morgan, who has a new season of \u201cRHONY\u201d premiering May 4, OnlyFans has become part of her brand. \u201cBravo is my lifeline, but I do OnlyFans for the same reason I get on Twitter every night \u2014 I like to connect with my viewership. And I can tell you: You make good money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus by 2030, OnlyFans will seem quaint to the point of innocence. After all, the sex robots are coming.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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