Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, why one of the world's best known

explicit content providers decided to ban explicit content. Investors didn't want to invest in a company

that was seeing most of its growth from explicit content. You know, you had the banks basically say,

we're not going to process payments for you as long as you have this unverified content

on your site. The story of Onlyfans, it's banned, and then it's climbed down on its ban.

Where did it leave a generation of adult performers? So many people are reliant on the platform

to take care of themselves,

their families, and so the idea of having that rug ripped out from underneath you with

really no warning, it sent our community to a complete tailspin. That's all to come in Business

Daily from the BBC.

So I first started in the adult industry when I was 18. I started dancing at a strip club with a friend. And I knew that I could probably make money with this. That's Jessica Starling.

She generates video content out of her home in Toronto in Canada.

I'm a very shy person, and especially when I was a teenager,

I was dealing with a lot of social anxiety as well.

So it was definitely like very nerve-wracking going in for the first little bit. But the thing is, actually, it helped

with my social anxiety a lot. It became exposure therapy, almost. You're shy, so you decided

to take your clothes off? Well, I don't think it was quite so linear, but I was shy, but I wanted to succeed.

And so I pushed myself out of my comfort zones to make sure I could succeed.

And succeed, she did, certainly enough, in her own view, to abandon her college studies for a full-time

career as an adult entertainer. Onlyfants has become sort of this social phenomenon that I haven't

really seen in sort of online, independent sex workers. And it became sort of this cultural thing.

Like it also sort of normalized the thought of paying for porn for a lot of people

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