The online sex industry during the pandemic! How sex workers live their life? (French Subtitles) - Video

A UK-based online content-hosting platform known as OnlyFans declared last August that it will ban all sexually explicit content from its website. After massive criticism from its users, the company has now reversed its decision.

OnlyFans isn’t the only site that provides a platform for adult content. Pornhub and Backpage have been accused of child exploitation and trafficking. According to the New York Times, Twitter has also been accused of allowing human trafficking.

Yet, OnlyFans is growing bigger and bigger all the time.

It has become a source of income for two million creators, including sex workers, during the pandemic. The company said it had helped to democratize sex work, in part by letting creators effectively run their own businesses and own the content that they post on the site. Creators have collectively earned more than $4.5 billion since OnlyFans started nearly five years ago, the company said.

The platform has more than 130 million users who pay monthly fees to creators to view feeds of imagery that’s often too racy for Instagram or TikTok. With that access, subscribers can also send direct messages and “tip” creators to get pictures or videos on demand, according to their sexual tastes.

Celebrities have joined the platform in the past year, helping to usher it into the mainstream. Cardi B, Tyga, Chris Brown, and Bella Thorne have all set up profiles. Social media influencers have also hopped on board, including many from TikTok and YouTube. The YouTube star Tana Mongeau joined OnlyFans last year. The Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway said she earns six figures by sharing literary-inspired pornography on her page.

Nevertheless, there’s an ongoing debate at the moment about online sex work and the rights of sex workers. The move to online work has made it possible for sex workers to have direct contact with their clients and to the general public. And with the onset of the pandemic, online sites have provided the perfect venue for sex workers to earn money.

In today’s video, I examine the inner workings of the online sex industry, with special emphasis on the victims and survivors of online sex trafficking.

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