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Oct 2, 2020 19 tweets 6 min read Read on X
Important reminder: Whether this particular story is real or not - the vast majority of women on OnlyFans never make any meaningful money! But they are at risk of their images being stolen and of being pushed to enter prostitution or pornography. Don't buy the lies.
I wanna be 100% clear: I do not support shaming women on OnlyFans or any other part of the porn industry no matter their reason of entry. But I will always speak up when its claimed that the industry will bring you stability and wealth. It is far more likely to bring you harm.
What sites like OnlyFans are mostly accomplishing is wealth for the mostly MEN - many of them pornographers and pimps - who actually own them and take their cut on every sale. OnlyFans is mostly paying for the mansions of pornographer-pimps like Tim Stokely 👇🏻🤮 Image
Sites like OnlyFans exist so that consumers can have porn tailored to their individual prefrences & fetishes and the illusion of owning a part of the woman. The requests made are not harmless. They are frequently demeaning, psychologically scarring, can even entail physical harm.
‘I have been asked to dress as a schoolgirl and pretend to masturbate myself’ says Eloise, who is a content creator on OnlyFans. ‘Once I was told to tie a rope around my neck and pretend to choke." What does this mean for suicide attempt & abuse survivors? spectator.us/nothing-empowe…
Claudia discovered that a main ‘clients’ had made a pornographic meme of one of her topless photographs & posted it on a porn site. ‘He sent it to me, proud. I tried to complain to OF but never heard from them. I emailed them 5 times. In the end I gave up and deleted my account.’
‘I needed to get as many subscribers as possible so I could pay my rent, which means posting new images all day every day,’ says Claudia about OnlyFans, ‘and agreeing to more and more explicit stuff. In the end I felt exhausted and degraded and canceled my membership.’
OnlyFans can put its content creators in danger. Recently a four-terabyte dump of videos and images of women who use the site to share pornographic images was leaked. Rather than a hack, the leak seemed to be from 'fans' accessing media individually, then compiling it for free.
OnlyFans has a function called Strip for Tip, and during a live video the more money subscribers send the provider, the more clothes she is required to take off. It's nothing but digital stripping and while she is physically safe in the moment, she has no control over her image.
OnlyFans offers men to pay providers for a day, or however long, to behave as if they are a real date, and via messages and voice notes send instructions as to what he requires of his ‘girlfriend’. I know women who entered prostitution through doing paid erotic chatting online.
And then theres the physical stalking: Last month it was reported that a 21-year-old woman in Australia who posted explicit content on #OnlyFans was followed and harassed by a man who went on to leak her personal information online. Of course men ask to meet her IRL for "dates".
Women on #OnlyFans can even have their content seized by the pimps who run the site: They can barr her from the site for dubious reasons and refuse to pay out money she has made. They can take it all away from her in a flash and she has little recourse. forensicnews.net/2020/08/13/onl…
Apparently some "fans" are also experiencing being subscribed to paid content against their will. No pity for these men 😂 If we lived in a world with equal wealth distribution none of you ugly selfish predatory fucks would ever get anywhere near these women. Pardon my French
According to Forensic News if you sign up for #OnlyFans you don't actually have to prove youre 18+. Ah man what a surprise. Anyone who thought the porn industry is interested in the bare minimum of ethics not profit maximization when will you come down to earth to the rest of us?
#OnlyFans creator: “I am 19 and, even though I am legal, I still feel like the culture of young women being sexualized by older men is done in such a predatory way. It is not safe for young women to put themselves out there. There is a fine line between being sex-positive...
...and being manipulated and used as an excuse to play into pedophilia." Pseudo-pedocriminal and actual pedocriminal content on a legal porn site? Quelle surprise. This is only normal... checks notes... in the entire legal sex trade: ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/pse…
To sum up: Thank you to all the women on #OnlyFans calling out the exploitation inherent to the business model. Best wishes to all women trying to survive these tough times - and anyone who shames you for it can fuck off as can the pimps who run the show who are def not ur friend
And you can never ever tweet about #OnlyFans without immidietly being offered a "super good deal totally in your interest totally not trying to take your money" by some digital pimp or other. Doing this out of the goodness of your heart? Very hard to believe... Image
Yes there are women in various parts of the sex trade genuinely supporting each other and that's great! But how is any woman online supposed to discern if something is a genuine coop or if it's just a digital pimp trying to take his cut? Hard enough to know this stuff IRL.

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The life of Joop Wilhelmus - an exemplary tale of many a "#sexualrevolution|ary's" extreme hatred of women and children...🧵 Image
Joop Wilhelmus is born in 1944, son of a Communist, sent at an early age to GDR socialist fraternization camps. Begins writing in leftwing papers at 14. Noticed for his braggadocio, claims of having first had sex at 12 years of age, and attracting "hot chicks" with his politics.
Jumping on the bandwagon of the sexual revolution in the 60s he soon becomes one of the Netherlands' most notorious pornographers, founding (among others) the adult porn magazine "Chick" in 1968. His fans are proud of the fact that he is hated by "the bourgeoisie and feminists".
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There's a new website educating about the largely forgotten and understudied history of Nazi military brothel networks during WWII by German feminist historian Anne S. Respondek. "The male right to sex" in full brutal force looks like this... 🧵wehrmachtsbordelle.de/2023/09/12/gla…
During their time in power the Nazi war machine established a brothel network stretching entire occupied territory. Brothels catered to (nearly) every sector of the male population incl. not just soldiers, SS, police and elites, but military allies, workers and even camp inmates.
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One of Germanys biggest news magazines, Der Spiegel, headlines:

"We will be ashamed"

Deploring 20 years of failed German #prostitution policy.

Here's the story of how the law let women down, the people (often survivors) ringing the alarm & the politicians admitting the mistake
The article opens with the story of "Lena" (20), the victim of a "loverboy" pimp, a trafficker who makes their victim think they're in a loving relationship - in Lena's case a martial arts world champion. Atypical about her story is that he got sentenced to 6 years and 3 months.
Lena's story is not a singular case, the article explains. There are countless women and some men & trans people trafficked to Germany annually. Most traffickers dont have a day in court nevermind the men literally paying to rape, the latter's actions are only criminal since 2017
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Every femicide in the sex trade warrants action and no country is doing enough to stop men using lethal violence against women in #prostitution. But the radio silence on the recent case of a woman murdered in a German apartment brothel, compared to the Irish case is deafening.
I don't think anyone can prove their case on what policy is better based on homicide data alone because as far as I'm aware no country is tracking murders of women in prostitution specifically. The cases and survivor reports we do have indicate lethal violence is a concern always
In any country, call it "legalization", "liberalization" or "decrim" women in #prostitution are given advice on how to not get robbed, raped, and murdered on the job from organizations that speak of #sexwork. Clearly, it remains a significant concern under all models of law.
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Reading about legal experts and sexologists who work with child rapists repeatedly going "oh, if they'd just pay someone 18+ for it, it's totally fine!" and the totally fine thing is cutting someone's skin or keeping someone in a basement for a dozen men a day. I'm furious.
Women in prostitution are not sponges for rape and abuse. Not only are men very capable of raping both their stepdaughter and the barely 18-year-old woman at the brothel, a disproportionately large number of women in the sex trade are themselves child sexual abuse survivors.
Some women in the sex trade have reported that men tell them "I chose you because you look like my niece/daughter/granddaughter/student". How does that make her feel esp. considering the significant chance she is a survivor of incest/child abuse? Why are "experts" endorsing this?
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Having made terrible experiences with window #prostitution in Amsterdam, the city plans to build a mega-brothel euphemistically called an "erotic center" instead. 100 women in rooms plus social and health service, security, hospitality, entertainment, education & cultural events. Image
In Germany, we call these places "mega brothels" and we have many of them. The biggest is the Pascha brothel in Cologne with 150 individual rooms. Such places may also include strip clubs, restaurants, spaces for concerts and business meetings. None of this has made women safe. Image
Not only are mega-brothels dehumanizing to the women in it, presenting them often based on "flavor" as in sorted by race or transgender status, bouncers and cameras have not made them remotely safe. The Pascha in Cologne has seen drug and human trafficking + 1 murder & 2 attempts Image
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