Having spent 24 hours considering this article on the evils of @OnlyFans, I have some thoughts. Obvs, they're a thread, cos I can't help it. I have many feelings, & being an OnlyFans creator myself, I think I may be qualified to comment. https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1250397469189513216

The anti-porn feminists' arguments against sex work often seem to stem from a fear of the dangerous men who might want to use our services. So I thought I'd address that.

1. The people who join my OF *aren't* all men. I'm a sub woman. Sub women join. maybe cos they relate to me.

2. My members aren't all strangers. Some are my friends. I see them IRL. Cos not everyone finds it uncomfortable to fancy their friends, or to be fancied. I don't care if my friends masturbate to pictures of me. If they *know* me & still find me hot, it feels like a miracle.

3. OF members aren't always interested in seeing maximally explicit content. Today, my members watched me walk in the park, tie myself up, & practice line dancing. They're paying for access to my world, not going on a maximum-vagina safari (MVS)

4. My OF members aren't all single. Some of them share their account with a partner, and use my videos to give them ideas for kinky things to do together, since I'm a BDSM model. Being scared of my OF customers would feel as foreign to me as being scared of my YouTube viewers.

5. There is no clear divide between porn users & porn creators, with the dirty scary men on one side, & the vulnerable naked women on the other. I make porn (of a kind) cos I like *watching* porn. Some of my OF members are also performers. This is not unusual.

In short, my members are just people. The same as the people who watch NetFlix, or YouTube. They're not a special category of dirty, dysfunctional perverts. And I wonder if it's possible to have a healthy relationship w/ *any* men, if you start off from this POV.

Cos most adults consume porn of some kind. We know this from viewing figures. & most of the people who watch it don't dare say so, cos of the way we tend to stigmatise people who do. Articles like this are so unhelpful cos they perpetuate a lie about the performers & users alike.