Yep, and that is why Pornhub has had issues as well, just last year they had to remove more than half of the total videos they were hosting which were from unverified users until they could all be hand reviewed and re-uploaded.

OnlyFans is currently the subject of a bipartisan investigation in the US Congress, after multiple police reports stating that Only Fans was being used for sex trafficking and child porn purposes. It's also pretty telling that Only Fans current methods of detecting child porn only resulted in them finding and blocking 15 users who posted child porn in July, which is probably a small fraction of the total people who posted child porn that month. Now their financial partners who process the payments from users to content creators basically gave them an ultimatum, quit hosting pornography if you're not going to police it properly. 

They're providing a service people want and in the process putting themselves out there in a way that can take considerable courage and willpower, and lead to a lot of harassment and ostracism. I certainly wouldn't be brave enough to do sexual activity on camera for a public audience.

There's also more work put into it than you might think, it's not enough to just play with yourself on camera, it's all about how you present yourself and curate your image which takes commitment and careful work.

The people who pay for it do so willingly; I wouldn't pay for porn myself, but the fact people do so when there's free porn easily available speaks to the work sex workers have to put in to making their "premium" content competitive with the free alternative.

It's not any less of a real job than other performative occupations like being an actor, athlete, dancer, or comedian.

Drug dealers provide people with a service people want... is drug dealing a real job too? Well outside of doctors of course.  I'm only half kidding and I know one is considered illegal.

Maybe, just maybe, some of it could be classified as such, like the ladies who spend many hours each night in a gentlemen's club dancing for tips (sometimes to pay their way through college in an attempt to build a better life for themselves), but spending 30 minutes a day playing with yourself on cam to grift lonely dudes or lonely ladies for their money on OnlyFans? I just can't call that an actual job, sorry, not when there are so many people out there working 40 or more hour weeks of hard physical labor just to keep the lights on, truck drivers spending whole weeks away from their families to deliver the products that we all buy, police officers out risking their lives on the streets to keep us all safe, etc. 

1 - While it is possible to be misogynistic, OnlyFans (And other self-run models/stars) had done a lot to stifle that and took the medium in the right direction where the performers had more control over their destiny, more personal autonomy, and more power. While porn did objectify women a lot and still does, the reason OnlyFans did so well for so long was because they (And other platforms like it) did a lot to turn the tides of the medium. 

2 - Men can be on OnlyFans, too. the whole point of the platform is that anyone can present themselves. 

3 - This is not a good thing, and if you think porn is inherently dangerous or in any way detrimental to society, I gotta get a time machine to send you back to the 1600s, becuase that's where this evangelical, snobby attitude belongs. 

4 - There is absolutely nothing wrong with adults choosing to seek out explicit material as long as the material is consensual by all adult parties involved. Stop trying to police people's lives. 

5 - You cannot be addicted to porn. As it is not a chemical that alters the chemistry of your body, you cannot become addicted. Like gambling and videogames and other acts that release endorphins, you can gain a compulsion to continue seeking that release, but it's not addiction. 

It's stunning how persistently wrong you are about anything that involves sexuality. Your puritanical views are thankfully becoming less and less accepted as actual science and society comes to understand more about our brains and bodies and thus phases out your judgy nonsense. If you don't wanna watch porn, that's fine. all the power to you. Us mentally healthy people will continue to masturbate and enjoy the form for many years to cum. 

1 - While it is possible to be misogynistic, OnlyFans (And other self-run models/stars) had done a lot to stifle that and took the medium in the right direction where the performers had more control over their destiny, more personal autonomy, and more power. While porn did objectify women a lot and still does, the reason OnlyFans did so well for so long was because they (And other platforms like it) did a lot to turn the tides of the medium. 

2 - Men can be on OnlyFans, too. the whole point of the platform is that anyone can present themselves. 

3 - This is not a good thing, and if you think porn is inherently dangerous or in any way detrimental to society, I gotta get a time machine to send you back to the 1600s, becuase that's where this evangelical, snobby attitude belongs. 

4 - There is absolutely nothing wrong with adults choosing to seek out explicit material as long as the material is consensual by all adult parties involved. Stop trying to police people's lives. 

5 - You cannot be addicted to porn. As it is not a chemical that alters the chemistry of your body, you cannot become addicted. Like gambling and videogames and other acts that release endorphins, you can gain a compulsion to continue seeking that release, but it's not addiction. 

It's stunning how persistently wrong you are about anything that involves sexuality. Your puritanical views are thankfully becoming less and less accepted as actual science and society comes to understand more about our brains and bodies and thus phases out your judgy nonsense. If you don't wanna watch porn, that's fine. all the power to you. Us mentally healthy people will continue to masturbate and enjoy the form for many years to cum.