Yet another story about a woman who was fired from her day job, after it was discovered that she had a lucrative side hustle as a suburban porn maker.
Heather Boyd, a married, 37-year-old mother of four, made adult content under the pseudonym “Hella Hot Wife.” When her entrepreneurial side hustle came to light, she was fired from her CNA job.
Please note: I am not “outing” Boyd. She has volunteered to appear on an upcoming TLC special entitled “Double Lives of Suburban Wives”. The show will feature interviews with married women who balance ordinary jobs and/or motherhood with autoporning on websites like OnlyFans.
Nor am I here to judge. At least—I’m not here to judge the women who do this.
I do, however, have some genuine questions about the almost exclusively male, demand side of this equation. The “easy money” of OnlyFans has been overhyped in recent years. (The average online adult content creator makes only about $180 per month.) But there is no doubt that some of these women are making huge sums. There is also no doubt that millions of men around the world are tuning in, credit cards in one hand and something else in the other.
This is what I don’t understand. I could understand the demand side, perhaps, if these OnlyFans models were engaged in the world’s oldest profession, providing in-person sexual favors for a fee. But these women are not doing “sex work,” as is so often alleged. What they are doing is better described as “titillation work.”
This is Lucy removing the football just before Charlie Brown can kick the football. It’s a grand tease, men sending digital dollars to women who are hopelessly beyond their reach. Are there really that many desperate, onanistic men in the world? Apparently so.
I would never assert that I am “entitled” to sex with any woman, including the aforementioned Heather Boyd. But if I can’t have it, please don’t wave it in my face. I would gain no satisfaction from having a sexual experience dangled before me on a computer screen—especially for a fee. The male enablers of the OnlyFans boom are sad cases, indeed.
-ET