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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

What If the “Recession-Proof” Job Isn’t? with Siri Dahl

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Arts, Performing Arts

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Adult performer and podcaster Siri Dahl joins us to talk about the emotional and economic realities of sex work in an era that calls itself creator-friendly, but still censors, exploits, and erases. We talk about the myth that OnlyFans is easy money, the rising pressure to be everywhere at once, and what it means to be both the product and the platform. Bonus episode on Patreon: patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm no tech genius, but I knew if I wanted my business to crush it, I needed a website

0:04.9

now.

0:05.9

Thankfully, Bluehost made it easy.

0:07.6

I customized, optimized, and monetized everything exactly how I wanted with AI.

0:12.5

In minutes my site was up, I couldn't believe it.

0:15.3

The search engine tools even helped me get more site visitors.

0:18.4

Whatever your passion project is, you can set it up with Bluehost.

0:21.7

With their 30-day money-back guarantee, what do you got to lose?

0:24.8

Head to bluehost.com.

0:26.3

That's B-L-U-E-H-O-S-T.com to start now.

0:31.7

People love to say sex work is a recession-proof, that it's easy money, that it's not real creative labor.

0:38.1

But Siri Dahl knows better. She's an adult performer, content creator, and like a lot of other

0:42.6

creators, she's built a career on skill, strategy, and a whole lot of behind-the-scenes hustle.

0:48.8

I mean, over 80% of my entire business revenue, which is what I depend on to live, is coming from only fans.

0:57.6

The truth, this work isn't easy. It's underestimated, over-scrutinized, and increasingly unstable,

1:03.5

even for those at the top of their game. I have help. I'm not doing everything on my own all the

1:08.7

time. I have a business manager that helps me.

1:11.8

I pay people to help me.

1:14.2

And yet still, it's like this insurmountable, like, mountain of stuff.

1:21.3

This episode isn't just about sex work.

1:24.2

It's about how we value creative labor, who gets excluded from the conversation,

1:28.2

and what it really takes to survive when your income depends on platforms that weren't built

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