Last week, adult media subscription platform OnlyFans moved to ban almost all NSFW content.

The ban was worse than anyone had imagined, and the public backlash was justifiably intense.

So intense, in fact, that OnlyFans and the payment processors whose new policies made this happen were clearly taken offguard.

On Wednesday morning, the platform announced that they are suspending those changes. They’re not banning porn.

It was not even a full week between OnlyFans announced their ban on virtually all NSFW content and this welcome reversal.

Wednesday morning, OnlyFans took to Twitter to announce the good news.

“Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard,” the tweet from the company’s official Twitter account began.

“We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community,” OnlyFans shared.

“And,” the platform’s tweet continued, “have suspended the planned October 1 policy change.”

“OnlyFans stands for inclusion,” the tweet concluded, “and we will continue to provide a home for all creators.”

That tweet is currently pinned to the official OnlyFans Twitter page, making it hard to miss.

In a follow-up tweet, OnlyFans shared that they would soon be releasing a message to their content creators.

Later on Wednesday morning, that message to the site’s hardworking content creators was sent out.

“Our acceptable use policy will remain the same,” the message assured OnlyFans creators.

“The proposed October 1, 2021 changes are no longer required,” the site added.

OnlyFans wrote that this is “due to to banking partners’ assurances that OnlyFans can support all genres of creators.”

“OnlyFans is committed to providing a safe and dependable platform for all creators and their fans,” OnlyFans wrote.

Obviously, this is an imperfect situation, with many hesitant to trust this good news — or the site that betrayed them just days ago.

But it is still good news.

As evidenced by this The Onion parody, the OnlyFans news was not well-received.

Obviously, both longtime subscribers and new subscribers were stunned and unhappy.

After all, OnlyFans offers a rare amount of direct access for paying customers who can access exactly what they want from exactly the creators they like.

The most important issue, however, was the blow that this represented to the creators themselves.

We’re talking about a move that would have impacted thousands of sex workers with only a matter of weeks as notice.

OnlyFans’ proposed “policy” change amounted to widescale layoffs, in many cases targeting marginalized people who depend upon the income.

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and even before, numerous sex workers turned to OnlyFans as a safe means of paying the rent.

Strip clubs closed with pandemic lockdown, and a deadly virus made full service sex work dangerous.

Well, more dangerous. FOSTA/SESTA, criminalization, and our society’s disregard for sex workers has made full service dangerous for a long, long time.

When office buildings and countless other places of in-person employment shut down, only a fraction of people were able to continue working from home.

This led to a colossal boom on OnlyFans.

Existing creators spent more time on the site, many shifting from part-time to full-time. And new creators flocked in.

With money from subscriptions, sales of specific packets of photos and video, and tips, bills were paid.

Content creators’ families were fed and housed. In an uncertain time, life went on.

OnlyFans has processed about $2 billion in payments — and gets to keep a whopping 20% of all of the action.

Sex workers turned OnlyFans into an adult media behemoth in a relatively short time.

For months, there have been warning signs that something was changing.

OnlyFans is offering a safe-for-work streaming option, but only for chefs and magicians and other non-porn, non-nude creators.

They exist. A lot of the celebrities who use the site essentially use it like a second, paid Instagram.

And that’s okay!

What’s not okay is that sex workers on the site were increasingly alarmed by how advertisements seemed to deny that they existed at all.

Then came the ban, announced on August 19.

As we covered thoroughly at the time, the outcry and backlash were immediate and thorough.

OnlyFans, however, insisted at the time that their hands were tied — by payment processors.

You can’t pay for something online without using some sort of currency, usually a credit card, a debit card, or an online equivalent.

OnlyFans’ CEO said that payment processors, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of New York Mellon, and the U.K.’s Metro Bank were cutting them off.

Additionally, many fingers quickly pointed to MasterCard’s new, extremely strict rules on content standards for payment authorization.

It’s great that these payment processors have now reached some sort of agreement with OnlyFans so that things can continue as before.

(We don’t yet know the details behind that … and would be curious to learn more)

But obviously, these banks and card companies didn’t wake up one day after a porn-filled nightmare and decide to hate human sexuality.

There are, as it turns out, dedicated groups of people who already hate human sexuality full time.

These organizations, characterized by some as anti-sex worker hate groups, lobby governments and businesses alike with one goal.

Exodus Cry, NCOSE, and their ilk have been pushing to make it harder (and one day, impossible) for sex workers to exist.

It’s not a conspiracy theory to say that these groups have their origins in Christian dominionism.

Many people have sincerely held beliefs about sex and sexuality that relate to their faith. That is fine.

What is not fine, of course, is attempting to turn those personal beliefs into laws for the rest of the world to follow.

What makes these efforts even more sinister is that they are often in the guise of “saving” women, or even masquerade as “women’s rights.”

Obviously, not all sex workers are women. Many men and nonbinary sex workers exist, on and off of OnlyFans.

But to most of the world, all iterations of the profession are associated with women.

It is categorically absurd to characterize banning sex work as supporting women’s rights.

Right to what — to not have a job?

Telling someone else what to do with their body is a very poor way to safeguard their human rights.

OnlyFans was only the latest target of these lobbying efforts.

It was not so long ago that PornHub purged a tremendous volume of content after similar efforts. Before that Tumblr infamously banned NSFW content, even art.

Backdoor and Craigslist are also victims of sex trafficking hysteria, as the United States Senate played right into the hands of these malefactors.

What makes the OnlyFans purge different is the widespread backlash. Almost all of the coverage was pro-sex worker.

The outrage was directed at site itself and at payment processors and at the sinister groups that wanted this to happen.

Major news outlets interviewed sex workers whose families would be devasted by the ban instead of filming celebrations by hand-wringing prudes. That may have made all of the difference.

Last week, news broke that OnlyFans is banning almost all NSFW content from what was previously a massive adult media subscription platform.

The ban was more restrictive than anyone suspected, depriving sex workers of almost all of the content options that the site once hosted.

The changes stemmed from MasterCard’s new rules, which were themselves spurred by lobbying by anti-sex worker hate groups.

Content creators who have used this site to house and feed themselves and their families are spelling out exactly how this is ruining and, in some cases, endangering their lives.

Last week, we reported on the ban and the immediate reaction of social media.

Once the jokes about this being Bella Thorne’s fault died down, the grim reality set in.

OnlyFans used its creators for years, becoming a financial behemoth. $2 billion in transactions later, it’s throwing most of them to the wolves.

Allegedly, this is all just an effort to “crack down” on any “illegal” content hosted on the site.

OnlyFans already has strict policies of identity verification for anyone appearing on the platform, and has all along.

These new rules, prompted by demands from payment processors, permit mild nudity but ban even simple masturbation.

Groups like Exodus Cry and NCOSE, both characterized as anti-sex-worker hate groups, have been lobbying for this for years.

This is a victory for them and for their fellow Christian dominionist organizations that want to enshrine their religious beliefs in law.

In fact, the only drawback — from their perspective — is the intense backlash, with the vast majority of press coverage siding with sex workers (you know, the victims).

Strippers, cam workers, OnlyFans models, porn stars, and full service workers are all types of sex workers, and that is not an exhaustive list.

So many of them used OnlyFans as a means of generating revenue for to help pay bills and make ends meet, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In fact, some — particularly disabled, trans, and otherwise marginalized creators — even found that they made more at this job and began doing it full time.

“This is something the anti-porn and anti-trafficking organizations have been pushing for,” veteran adult movie actress Alana Evans tells Axios.

As president of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, she predicts: “But I think it’s going to create more trafficking situations.

Alana warns: “I have models telling me they think they have no choice but to move into full-service sex work.” Even before the pandemic, that came with dangers.

Courtney Tillia is a model and life coach as well as a 34-year-old mother of four who was blindsided by the ban.

Speaking to People, she describes the ban as “shocking,” as “sudden,” and as disturbingly “vague.”

“It also leaves us feeling not so great,” she admits, “because we were the ones who built that platform and made it into what it is today.”

Courtney, who taught special education for years before depression drove her to a new career, had supported her family on her OnlyFans earnings.

“We made it a brand that people know, and to go back on the people who built it, it’s pretty awful,” she remarks.

“I fell in love with it,” Courtney adds. “I fell in love with being liberated and being able to share myself in different ways.”

“I started this for my own expression,” Courtney details.

“I had no idea there was so much money to be made in it as there is,” she adds.

And she, of course, is not alone.

Erin Ashford has been one of OnlyFans’ top models, earning thousands of subscribers in her two years on the platform.

She tells Axios that the decision to unceremoniously dump content creators was “earth-shattering.”

Erin worked various jobs in Arizona before finding her way to OnlyFans, which has enabled to build a majestic new life for herself.

“I’m not the only one who will be affected by a change in my income,” Erin warns, referring to the farmland on which she now lives.

“There are six families depending on the paycheck I give them every other week,” she explains.

“It seems so easy for OnlyFans to turn their back on me and other adult content creators with such little thought as to the thousands of families that will be affected by this,” Erin laments.

Maya Morena, a college student who is another OnlyFans creator, spoke to CNN.

“During COVID, I just stopped [full-service sex work] completely because it became too dangerous,” she explains.

“This was the best month I’ve had on OnlyFans,” Morena says of her most recent earnings, “and now it is basically ruined.”

Crystal Jackson and her husband, Chris Jackson, are parents in California who have been making $150,000 per month on OnlyFans.

Posting suggestive photos, their income skyrocketed to $500,000 in August, before this grim news broke.

“If you were to get half a million dollars a month for an hour of work a day, would you do it?” Chris posed. “Yeah, you would.”

Crystal describes her OnlyFans brand as “modest and reserved, real-neighbor mom.”

Because her content is so tame, she does not expect to be banned directly by the horrible new policy.

However, for both lack of interest and for moral reasons, many subscribers are fleeing OnlyFans to more inclusive platforms.

There are many factors behind this, from corporate greed to hateful ideological lobbying to the ill-advised and inexcusable passage of FOSTA/SESTA.

The broader culprit may be how our society treats sex workers, devaluing them and their labor — and in some cases, making their jobs illegal.

OnlyFans creators don’t need to “get real jobs.” They have real jobs, and they have just received what’s essentially news of massive layoffs. It’s shameful.

Multiple websites and other businesses have built their brands on the backs of sex workers and then pushed them aside when it’s convenient.

OnlyFans’ ban of most NSFW content makes the (previously) adult media subscription site only the latest on a disgraceful list.

We knew that OnlyFans was throwing its content creators, the ones who made the site a household name, to the wolves.

But we now know that OnlyFans’ ban is stricter and more malicious that it sounded when it was first announced.

Last week, OnlyFans vowed to release their official new terms of use.

Some on social media accused the site’s content creators of fear-mongering, that they should wait for the new terms to come out.

Now, a quick comparison between the old terms of use and the new ones tell us how alarmingly wrong they were.

The OnlyFans policy update does affirm that some nudity will still be allowed … but the exceptions are extreme and absolute game-changers.

OnlyFans photos and video are no longer allowed to show, promote, or advertise any “excually explicit conduct.”

If you’re wondering what in the world that means, the new terms of service spell it out.

It’s not just that OnlyFans creators can no longer have sex of any kind.

Sexual intercourse is banned, whether it is actual or fake or done with a toy or tool.

And between people? That goes for oral and anal sex as well as genital, in any combination. All banned.

If you’re thinking “okay, they’re just going softcore now,” well … we’re not done.

Masturbation, whether actual or simulated, is prohibited.

And while nudity is allowed, zooming in on anybody’s genitals or holes is no longer allowed.

That’s right — closeup shots of anybody’s bits can get you banned.

There is also a ban on body fluids, which means that the aftermath of sex or masturbation is prohibited.

And of course, they cannot post teasers promising more for direct customers off of OnlyFans, because they cannot advertise any thing sexually explicit.

The new terms require that all of this “sexually explicit conduct” be removed before December 1, 2021 at the latest.

Users who violate the policy could see their accounts suspended or terminated, or even have access to their earnings revoked.

That last one sounds like OnlyFans is threatening to keep creators’ money if they break these new rules.

There’s no more porn on the porn site.

And “porn” here includes selfies if they zoom in too closely on the wrong areas.

With that, many people’s early morning Twitter scroll might contain more explicit material than OnlyFans creators can now offer.

Of course, that depends upon whom they follow.

But while this is an inconvenience for customers, this is a travesty for sex workers who made the site a success.

OnlyFans processed billions of dollars (keeping 20% of all earnings), and now it’s discarding countless people from safe, reliable work.

Last week, we reported on the downright sinister forces at play who made this ban a reality.

MasterCard implemented new rules recently that required obscenely difficult new standards for any adult content.

And the malefactors who lobbied for that consider this to be a victory.

Ultimately, as we outlined in our reporting last week, this puritanical Thanos-snap on horny content was deliberately caused.

For some time, Christian dominionists engaged in a culture war have been using “sex trafficking” hysteria as a wedge issue.

In many ways, it’s the new “Satanic panic.”

When we refer to Christian dominionists, we’re not talking about most American Christians.

We’re talking about people who want everyone’s laws defined by their theology.

Exodus Cry and the so-called National Center on Sexual Exploitation are two of the tools in their armory used to target sites like OnlyFans.

Both Exodus Cry and NCOSE have been characterized as anti-sex worker hate groups, and with good reason.

There is no way to advocate against someone’s entire way of life and source of income and also support those people.

Paradoxically, these groups and others sometimes claim to be crusading for “women’s rights” … by seeking to infringe upon the bodily autonomy of countless women.

Before this, Exodus Cry is believed to have been responsible for PornHub purging massive amounts of content.

The claim at the time that circulated among anti-sex worker groups was that “most” of the site’s content was suspect or illegal.

While that was not true, all non-verified users of the porn streaming site were suddenly iced out, leaving mostly large studios behind.

OnlyFans has been a godsend for countless sex workers, but new and old, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’re talking about a source of stable income where content creators can work from home and generate revenue to feed their families and pay bills.

Trans and disabled content creators found OnlyFans particularly appealing because many other lines of work can involve discrimination and accessibility issues.

There is one silver lining to this grim story: the publicity is not going the way that the malicious puppetmasters intended.

When PornHub was purged, many uncritically echoed the sentiment that PornHub was pretty sketchy to begin with (true) and that the purge was necessary (not so true).

This time, the overwhelming majority of the media coverage of the OnlyFans purge has been pro-sex worker.

The goons at anti-sex worker hate groups clearly did not expect the finger-pointing to so quickly identify them and MasterCard, or to so loudly condemn this.

This is a nightmare for so many content creators, who will now have to find new sites in order to continue working.

While many hope that OnlyFans’ financial value will crash and burn as it richly deserves, there are countless creators on the site who are scrambling for new work.

For now, we as individuals can support sex workers individually in some cases, but that doesn’t solve the problem.

Unmasking and exposing these groups in our midst that exist only to lobby to make the world a worse place has to be a priority.

Anti-sex worker hate groups have lobbied card companies, the DOJ, and more. It’s time for people with power to stop listening to the bad guys.

Earlier this month, some mixed signals had fans wondering if Larissa Lima and Eric Nichols broke up.

Eric later clarified that he was single … but on Wednesday, he and Larissa changed their tunes.

Just two months ago, Larissa and Eric packed up their lives into a U-Haul and left Vegas behind them.

They traveled to Colorado Springs, where Eric is from.

Reportedly, they even picked out a house together, one that has since shown up in multiple videos and photos.

Then, just a week or so ago, fans notices some changes cropping up on social media.

First, Larissa and Eric appeared to have unfollowed each other — never a good sign in a relationship.

Larissa also appeared to have purged all photos of Eric (though, to be fair, she is known to dramatically shuffle her Instagram content).

Fans wanted to know if this meant that they had broken up, or if they were just doing some weird social media stuff to promote their respective OnlyFans accounts.

Then, on Sunday, November 15, 

“Happy Sunday! Reach me on my Onlyfans. Single N red-e 2 mingle* Link in bio.”

On the surface, this is a shirtless thirst trap featuring his ottery torso.

He’s clearly promoting his OnlyFans (let’s clear up the mystery — that is the link in his bio).

But he wrote that he was “single” and “ready to mingle.”

Now, sometimes certain professionals — from Twitch streamers to OnlyFans stars — have to act semi-single online.

Sometimes, people latch onto the illusion of a potential relationship with their favorite streamers or content creators, and talk of a boyfriend or girlfriend discourages that.

But … in this case, we’re talking about a guy straight-up saying that he’s single after unfollowing his girlfriend. Shocking, right?

Not only have they been together (off and on) since February 2019, but Eric saw Larissa through multiple surgeries.

They also, need we repeat, moved together.

The logistics of a breakup like that are just not easy — but breakups never are.

Three days later, on Wednesday, November 18, Eric and Larissa apparently had a change in attitude towards one another.

They both refollowed each other on Instagram.

Larissa (as you can see earlier in this post) “liked” Eric’s post about being single and ready to mingle. And then this happened:

Eric posted a video of him (again shirtless) making a sandwich and walking his followers through the steps of how he applies mustard and mayo.

What was interesting — aside from his bare and to many, tantalizing torso — was what went on in the comments.

“I wanna eat that,” Larissa commented with a purple devil emoji. Eric used the same emoji to reply: “And you did.”

It’s not clear if they were even discussing the sandwich here, because folks, the energy in those comments was so deeply horny.

It may be that Larissa and Eric spent a couple of weeks broken up.

But it appears that they are back together already — before either had a chance to officially announce it.

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1. This is Really Ugly, Folks

Just warning you ahead of time. It’s easy to mock folks who appear on a reality show such as 90 Day Fiance, but this story is simply very sad.

2. The Photos Speak for Themselves

Last Thursday night/Friday morning, Larissa shared many photos of her cut-up face on Instagram. She claimed Colt inflicted these injuries.

3. She Showed Fans Numerous Angles

As you can see above.

4. She Showed Them Close-Ups

Again, as you can see above.

5. Did Colt Actually Do This, Though?

That’s the question, of course.

6. Colt Says No

But he says Larissa DID do this, showing off his own bloody lip in his own Instagram photograph.

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