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Sep 26, 2020, 8 tweets

When people think of OnlyFans, they tend to think of female sellers and male buyers.

But @hallielieberman spoke to men who sell themselves on OnlyFans and women who buy what they’re selling to explore this niche of the site buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman They come from all over the world: Australia, America, Canada, Germany.

They include guys like Jason Luv, a top Black adult actor, and Plant Daddy, a self-described “naked Black man with a green thumb,” as well as sex workers and reality TV stars buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman Male OnlyFans performers told @hallielieberman that 20-50% of their customers are women.

“There are plenty of women who subscribe to my OnlyFans just because they don't want to meet someone at a bar or go on Tinder or Bumble,” said Cameron Hart buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman What separates most female clients from most male ones is what they’re seeking to get out of the experience.

Most women “want to feel like they're dating me and the guys want me to come,” said Sgt. Miles, an Army vet who makes $800-$20,000 a month buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman What’s surprising is that women are paying for dick pics at all, when nearly half of all women receive free dick pics (90% of them unsolicited), according to a Kinsey Institute study buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman Like half of the women in the Kinsey study, Rebecca, a 28-year-old who lives in Arizona, dislikes receiving unsolicited dick pics: “It's nice to be able to be so in control of it.” buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman If women are having such positive experiences hiring men for virtual dates, paying for dick pics, and videochatting with them, then why do they still seem to make up so few sex work customers?

The stigma is likely to blame, a 2018 study says buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

@hallielieberman “We've been socialized that men are the ones that are supposed to go out and chase you and spend money on you and win you over and you're just supposed to sit back and relax and be wined and dined,” Rebecca said buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…

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