Abstract
With the growing popularity of OnlyFans.com, many people have turned to this growing website as a means of economic stability. The site allows creators to charge viewers for specially curated content for a wide variety of genres. However, the site has specifically gained track for cyber-sex workers to post adult videos and content at a subscription based or pay per view price of their choice. Through OnlyFans, sex work has gotten a recent, modern makeover that has allowed the industry to keep up with the evolution of social media. Historically, sex work has been an occupation that is stereotyped with heavy stigma and shame. Reflecting on historical forms of sex work, such as prostitution, the stigma from this occupation has made balancing intimate partner relationships difficult for those who partake. To balance any sense of shame that may occur while partaking in intimate partnerships, sex workers may find and develop coping skills that help their partnerships and occupation coexist. By conducting interviews with OnlyFans content creators, we can understand the way these coping skills have shifted and changed with the modernization of sex works through onlyfans. The sex work industry is never going to disappear, rather just shift in its methods; with the knowledge of these coping skills used by modern sex workers, other sex workers can borrow these skills and find ways to partake in intimate partnerships while creating adult content.
Presenters
Maria CullumStudent, Masters of Arts in Sociology, Texas Tech University, Texas, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Deviance, Sex, Online Spaces, Gender and Sex, Sex Work
