OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 (opens in new tab)

The flip side is that if you make a thing smooth, profitable, and safe-feeling, you get more of it, as any economist can tell you. Also, as any sociologist can tell you, when you make a fringe thing feel normal among young people, you get a LOT more of it.

So your defense of OF only real works if you think that an explosion of commercialized sex has no negative effect on our culture, or if you (stupidly) believe that the rate of sex work is an immutable constant, impervious to laws, technology, or social contagion.

> Out of everything in the adult industry, to me, OnlyFans is one of the most sane. That is encouraging independent performers to get payed directly by their fans, taking only a reasonable commission.

I kinda agree, but the prevalence of fake chatting soured me on the company as a bastion of sane sex work. Without it, it seems legit: fans pay for content, they get content. But add the layer of fans pay for chatting with the models, and get something else.

Personal responsibility has to enter the picture somewhere. If a family is ripped apart because a member is using OnlyFans then that's that family member bears responsibility. OnlyFans didn't invent pornography. And on the model side, it allows cutting out a whole industry of truly skeezy, immoral middlemen distributors.

I do dislike the effect OnlyFans has had on society but I think it's a symptom, not a cause.

How was he ripping families apart?

He provided a way for many people to earn a living from the comfort of their homes and saved them from people that can exploit sexual workers (economically and worse).

If you find sexual work a despicable thing it's your right, but the people that are doing it through Onlyfans have it better than in other ways.

Also OF’s fees would be a killer.

I remember hearing about money laundering via Steam item trading years ago. There seem to be some recent articles as well, but this is what I remember: https://web.archive.org/web/20140523053405/https://www.polyg...

paypal, heck every retail gift card too.