Indeed, when OnlyFans first shot onto the scene, Love Islander Meghan Barton-Hanson praised it for 'changing the power dynamic for sex workers' and 'empowering women' while adding she uses OnlyFans as a 'way...to express myself'.
Many saw the switch to online sex work - regulated by OnlyFans' protections - as a good thing; the app guarantees stringent age and identity verification checks, a zero-tolerance policy for Non-Consensual Intimate Images (NCII), cutting-edge content moderation, and strict controls against human trafficking.
Australia's 'most sexually active woman' and OnlyFans model Annie Knight claimed she slept with 600 men in one year.
Pictured here: the reclusive Ukrainian-American businessman Leonid Radvinsky, who bought OnlyFans in 2018] Although Bonnie has never provided evidence she really carried out the stunt, the shock factor alone made headlines as the extremity of the claim left many people horrified.
But five years after OnlyFans' Covid-fuelled boom, the once 'safe space' appears to have been compromised as creators exit the platform in their droves and remaining stars promote ever more extreme stunts to keep up with the competition.
