In a move which was both highly praised and criticised, OnlyFans is set to stop the uploading of ‘sexually explicit’ content onto the app as of October. The platform gained a lot of popularity with sex workers who share content on their own terms, garnering around 130 million users since its launch. The pressure for the change came from pressure by banks and payment processors who raised concerns about the material hosted on the site. OnlyFans said that nudity will still be allowed on the site but any ‘sexually-explicit conduct’ will be banned.
Reception to this change was mixed. Commenters, rather jokingly, pointed out how this ban would be like, say, a burger outlet banning burgers. Others, some OnlyFans users, pointed out how censorship of such data doesn’t keep people safe. Others stated how forcing sex workers off of OnlyFans will mean they have to find riskier ways to pay bills.
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