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In previous newsletters we reported that UK jobcentres are pressuring claimants who are OnlyFans ‘creators’ to increase their OnlyFans income and about legislation that bans the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from making “arrangements in respect of employment for sexual purposes”.
While some women make a lot of money on OnlyFans, the vast majority make very little, with average monthly earnings being about £130. The main way that a woman can increase her OnlyFans income is by creating more explicit and degrading content and attempting to attract new paying customers by posting clips on mainstream social media sites, including TikTok, Instagram and similar, where children are likely to be present.
Increasing her OnlyFans visibility in this way is likely to increase attention from predators who want to pay her for in-person sex, and pimps and other third parties who want to cash in on her earnings. It may push her into “full service” prostitution and will inevitably expose her to more risks.
This means that the DWP is complicit in the commercial sexual exploitation of (mainly) young women and in increasing the amount of pornographic material that children are likely to be exposed to.
We have published a new article that explains all this and provides links to the FOI responses, DWP self-employment rules, and Dame Diana Johnson’s responses.
We have also started a petition to campaign against this heinous situation. Please sign and share it and help us raise awareness of this heinous situation.
Source: Please sign our petition: Ban the DWP pimping women on OnlyFans?