Before we get started, I want to note that this episode contains depictions of sex that might not be suitable for all audiences, including children.

This is not the kind of story I typically get to do.

And so I think when I finally got a chance to do my own show, I was like, you know what?

I'm going to do that only fan story.

I'm going to do that weird online sex story that everyone was making fun of last year.

They know that fans of only fans are only fans of one thing, right?

Because this little website out of the UK that was built to let artists convert likes into paid subscriptions was now seen as a porn site, a site that claims that it went from 10 million users before the pandemic to 150 million today.

From the outside, it seemed like the quarantines had unleashed some kind of culture shift.

I think that it has mainstreamed the idea of doing sex work in a really fast way. We have supercharged

this idea that you can hop online and, you know, take your clothes off on video and that'll make you a bunch of money.

Like all gig economy work, the pitch goes something like this. Are you burnt out struggling to

make ends meet? Well, sweetie, I was. Until I burned it all to the ground and started an only fan.

And lots of people did.

It's almost like you bite the bullet when you decide to do anything like this, I think.

You sort of go, I know what people are going to think about me.

I know what they're going to say.

And you sort of, you weigh up the pros and the cons, and you make the jump and just

hope for the best. So who are these people? How do they end up at the nexus of content creation

and sex work? How is this latest development online changed things for adult industry vets?

It's definitely what I use to wringle my life back together. Because if there was not that

constant money or was not that constant creative outlet, even, I don't know what I would have done

for that year. And what about the people who had never considered selling sex before?

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