To understand why people do Only fans etc

[Tuppenceabagforlife]

There is just not enough money to live a nice, fairly average life now on good jobs. Really what is the point? Just working to survive until we retire, probably in our 70’s, if we’re lucky to make it that long..it’s crap! It isn’t a life and isnt the way it should be.

Have been watching the programmes with Olivia Attwood (think that’s her name) and all these people earning thousands a month with the aim of working a few years to earn a few million and be done. A lot of them seem to have captured niche markets, work from home, work for themselves…I don’t know, how much longer to go out every day to work, to slog my guts out just to get by.

I don’t blame them for doing it

This is a fabulously shit take.

www.wired.com/story/this-high-tech-handlebar-is-coming-with-help-from-onlyfans/

Then why do you have such clear views about it? If you don't even know what it looks like?

Doubt it's that easy to make enough money to retire on.

For celebrities with followings then yes it's easy for them to make easy money- men will pay to see their tits or whatever.

For the average Jo on the street, not so much. That's why you're seeing more extreme behaviour such as claiming to have sex with 1000 men in one day as this gets publicity to drive men to their site.

I saw this earlier on a link on facebook. Hes on OFs and has this sideline…

https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/09/farts-make-20-000-a-year-im-blown-away-demand-22508605/?

people are weird 😂

Hasn't that always been life though for most people?

I have a page on the site.

I don’t do anything pornographic, or even approaching….. I offer unique photos and videos though.

They aren’t sexualised, other than the slant men may take on them.
I’ll happily show anyone interested/curious.

I make around £300-400 per month in the cooler months. Can make over £1,000 a month in the warmer weather where there’s more opportunities for pictures. So not an income, but a nice top-up that helps me to work part time in my main job.

I don’t take any time out of my day really to take the shots other than 20 minutes or so - it’s all things/placez I do/go for fun in my leisure time anyway.
Don’t even put any make up on before the pics!!
I have a strong following on X which drives traffic to my page.

But it’s certainly rare to have non-porn content making money, for sure.

Same, me and a colleague joke about it all the time the week before payday - she has massive feet and mine are tiny so we often make ludicrous plans to see who gets more clicks, get some extra cash for Christmas etc. But we both know we'd never be able to actually go through with it. I couldn't rest for worrying I'd be "spotted" somehow!

"A big difference between male and female strippers are the audience".

The audience for male and female strippers are exactly the same. They are people paying to see someone naked.

Society has total double standards.

A male teacher in my school used to be a stripper. I know that the headteacher knows about it , as the male teacher told everyone. No one cares. They just had a bit of a laugh about it.

However I know if there was a female teacher here, and she was found out to have been a stripper in the past, she probably would be fired.

'However I know if there was a female teacher here, and she was found out to have been a stripper in the past, she probably would be fired.'

You can't possibly know that.

Audiences for male and female strippers are really not the same. Anyhoo, the thread is about OF.

It STARTED as being about only fans.

Threads evolve. And talk about other things.

Me and another poster were discussing strippers.

Beyond the tawdry nature of it I would be worried about people being able to track me down and come to my house. Photos have locations embedded in them, IP address etc. You would have to be very up on VPNs etc to make sure you weren't tracked.

I think I've found my niche, my farts are legendary! Big bucks here I come 😂

I don’t believe that anyone would come out unscathed in one way or another, but it’s worth considering the emotional impact on children who find out their mum did this kind of work. The media tries to push the sex positive line but no one falls for it, especially not kids in the playground

I think a lot of online sex work is fine.

As long as it's not violent or abusive content, who is it hurting?

Kerry ketona is on only fans. She said that she's made millions just from topless pics.

That's not hurting anyone

God love her but Kerry Katona is hardly an example of a happy life lived to even half its potential.

I think she did very well considering what a shit upbringing she had.

She had an abusive drug addict mum and an absent dad and she went on to be a popstar

I had an abusive mum and an absent dad , and I haven't become a pop star!

I mean it's admirable - what she achieved, after overcoming a crap childhood.

This is really interesting, what would you say your “niche” is then?

Clearly nobody replying has watched the show you're talking about. I have & totally get what you're saying. Some of them don't even do anything particularly revealing. The ones who make money slagging men off are particularly clever, who knew that could be monetised to that degree. It's not for me but can't fathom how rude/harsh some of the comments here are about these women. The joy of being an open minded adult is surely being able to accept others live a life that's not for you and as long as they're not hurting anyone there's really no need to be so set against it. If we as women can't even allow each other that grace, how can we expect men to.

So are you thinking of doing it? I agree with other posters here about Only Fans in that you'll probably have to sell your soul and you need to keep going and evolving to keep up with the competition, keep getting 'likes' to ensure you're out there at the forefront. But there's a growing demand for porn that's more authentic, erotic and appeals to women, so a rise in couples creating their own porn from home. Lustery is just one such website that's an alternative to the crap that is Pornhub. So, if you and your partner can be paid to get it on in your own way in your own home. why not?

I read a while ago about that woman flogging her farts in a jar and thought "fuck me, I could make a fortune!" 🤣 Really need to get round to sorting some jars out...

They all have one thing in common though - they are as dumb as mince and have no self respect. If that’s you, go for it!
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This is too simplistic an assumption

Would you say someone was thick as mince and had no self respect who worked in an abbatoir for minimum wage??

From what I have heard, I have to admit that OF sounds like easy money. If you're willing to do stuff that men will pay for -

And to a certain extent it's safe, you don't actually meet these men!

@Tooearlytothink It’s not about accepting others decisions (though it’s certainly not true to say that individual women's choices are always harmless to women as a class).

Posts like this add to the myth that there’s good, easy money to be made on OF, but the average earnings are actually around £150 per month. This is a really dangerous message to promote as it encourages desperate women to join. Someone up thread said it’s like a Ponzi scheme and that’s exactly it. Join, give more and more and eventually you’ll be in the 1% making an actual wage…

To make real money, it’s a full time job. It requires the time to create the content, engagement, marketing, interacting with fans and bespoke requests. And then it’s finding an angle that sets you out from the other 4 million creators. All whilst trying to keep fresh and interesting for your subscribers (who, let’s face it, are going to be creeps).

And that’s all without touching on the psychological fallout.

That's actually really patronising. You do know some women are capable of setting boundaries and sticking to them?

We're just in a world where we're being conditioned to think well-paid side hustles are the norm. The reality is most lose you money, or take so many hours it works out well below minimum wage - the saying 'if it sounds too good to be true it probably is' applies here. There are decent side hustles, but very few that take minimal effort.

Never a truer word.

I like the advice - though I can't remember who said it - "make your side hustle your main hustle or forget about it".

If you look at the average earnings, it probably works out at less than minimum wage for most people and much more precarious and less pleasant than many regular jobs.