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goobster  ·  1440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Money talks - Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform

Early on in the pandemic I saw many friends go without work... actors, sex workers, performers of various ilks.

I decided I could do something to help these people, so I decided to "ethically source" my porn.

I reached out to my various friends and asked who I could support via OnlyFans. It wasn't a commonly known site back then... very fringey... and before you could search for "accountant" and find sex workers. ;-)

I signed up for 8 different OF accounts of friends and friends-of-friends. Not all of the content was my flavor, but for $3/month, or whatever, I was happy to help keep them in ramen. (My total payment to OF monthly is less than $40. Or about 2 latte's per week.)

The benefit here is that you are doing business directly with each person. They create as much as they want, of the type of content they want, and are in full control of what they produce. (In addition, when someone is in full control of their own content, they tend to produce much more genuine content, which is far sexier than the "performative" porn the mainstream porn industry produces.)

Two of them I know have purchased homes, and have income over $30k/month. I still give them $3/month. Good for them.

"Ethically sourced porn." It's a thing. And it's not available from PornHub.