“We should all be a little better about letting young people figure their shit out.”— Rebecca Jennings, vox.com
“What comes next is translating those shifts in political messaging into strategy and policy change.”— Melissa Gira Grant, newrepublic.com
“For years, sex workers, sex educators, pole dancers, artists, tantric coaches, BDSM-ers and others have had their content shadowbanned or removed with little to no explanation, and Instagram has a long history of exacting this approach on sex workers and queer creators”— Pearse Anderson , melmagazine.com
“I think it says more about our country and our health care system that more and more health care workers are having to turn to OnlyFans or other means of sex work or other means of getting extra cash, the fact that they’re not getting what they need to make ends meet from the job that they’re dedica…”— Lauren Kwei, rollingstone.com
“AOC has also advocated for the decriminalization of sex work, as the Queens Daily Eagle reported last year.”— Lucy Diavolo, teenvogue.com
“Porn industry expert Amberly Rothfield, who regularly publishes advice and guidance for sex workers, tells me her greatest fear is that these changes will have a trickle-down effect. If payment processors pull their services from any company that’s remotely horny on main (despite frequent, similar c…”— Jake Hall, melmagazine.com
“One ranking lists Pornhub as the 10th-most-visited website in the world. Yet there’s another side of the company: Its site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxi…”— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com
“Lena isn’t particularly worried about this influx of new models. To her mind, other girls aren’t necessarily competition — someone who’s interested in her content isn’t automatically going to be interested in another performer like, say, Asa Akira or a celebrity like Cardi B or Bella Thorne.”— Lux Alptraum, vulture.com
“Sex workers are speaking out about how Thorne's approach has the potential to damage the platform and the industry at large by erasing the years of oft-ignored bravery and resilience endured by those who actually deserve the credit.”— Trace William Cowen, complex.com
“Sex work tourism (as well as shock value patronage) used to really personally offend me when I was younger, but I’ve seen it enough now to accept this majestic cycle.”— Kat, titsandsass.com
“What Calloway and other celebrity drop-ins to OnlyFans fail to realize is that sex work is actual, serious labor, not a bandwagon to hop on.”— Claire Downs, elle.com
“They circulated a petition to pressure my employer (who was funded primarily by labor unions) into no-platforming me, a socialist feminist, because my vision of women’s liberation differed from Hugh Hefner’s.”— Meghan Murphy, spectator.us
“I offended this sensibility by insisting that most women and girls do not enjoy servicing dozens of strange men, day in and day out, while handing over all their earnings to a madam or pimp, and that most women in prostitution are not your friend Kayla who lives in her parents’ million-dollar loft a…”— Meghan Murphy, spectator.us
“Just because YOU decide to move on and have a fresh start does not mean the men you slept with will allow you to have a fresh start.”— AB-Writes, psiloveyou.xyz
“I feel that they used me as a pawn to help take down their competition with Unbound and did it in such a way where they would not have their hands dirtied.”— Ev'Yan Whitney, medium.com
“Gifting experiences to someone you love isn’t the same as trying to financially dominate them.”— Kristin Wong, medium.com