You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

while there's nothing you can't pass on Savage Lovecast. Only fans, I was going to talk about the

Only Fan situation at the top of this week's show, but the Only Fan situation seems to have

resolved itself. OnlyFans is a platform where people can subscribe to content creators who then share exclusive photos and videos on the site.

It's a site worth billions, thanks to the sex workers and porn performers.

The platform marketed itself to and recruited when it first launched in 2016.

And then a week ago, Only fans announced it was banning all sexually explicit content

from its site because banks, credit card companies, processors were forcing them to.

They reversed course in a week. Only fans turned around and said a week later, basically,

We Hear You and announced that they weren't going to ban sexually explicit content after all and would no longer be pivoting to, I don't know what.

I don't know what they planned to pivot to the week before last.

Face tuned teenagers doing lip syncs and cooking tutorials and other shit people can get for free on YouTube and TikTok right now.

How are you going to make money at that?

But that was their plan a week and a half ago.

What seems to have made the difference here and what I see is a sign of real progress,

The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, daily papers, NPR, mainstream publications,

went to sex workers and porn stars to get quotes about how only fans

was doing to them what Facebook and Instagram and Craigslist had already done to them.

And how this being driven off the internet was making their lives harder and sex work more

dangerous, not eradicating sex work, not ending it, just making it more dangerous.

That's new. And it made a huge difference.

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