Quick warning here at the top, we are talking about OnlyFans in this episode.

That means we will acknowledge the existence of sex.

When I called up the writer Charlotte Shane, I had a kind of embarrassing question to ask, right off the bat.

What exactly is OnlyFans? I knew that over the last week,

OnlyFans had sparked controversy. They'd threatened to ban sex work from their platform. But I also

knew Cardi B was on there, along with the actress Bella Thorn, even some fashion designers and fitness

influencers. So I wanted to know, makes for a good only fans account anyway.

There's a lot of like, I mean, it sounds absurd, I guess to say suggestive emoji,

but we all know the emoji that are...

We all know what the eggplant emoji means.

Yes, like little devil, smiling devil, like water droplets.

Like, we get it.

You know, I think it was Rebecca Minkoff, the first, you know, established designer to join

the site.

And she gave interviews and she said, no, I spoke with the founders and they assured me that

if people just want to see my content, they're not

going to be like accosted with naked bodies, right? They're not going to just be inundated

with porn. They can just look at my bags and my design room and whatever. But Rebecca

Minkoff too, we'll post these locked posts that are kind of like, ooh, like what's inside our bags?

You know, like tongue out emoji or whatever.

I mean, it's, frankly, they're probably having fun.

Like, we're just showing a handbag, but we're writing about it like it's somebody's genitals, you know.

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