I am the youngest of 4 sisters (sadly, there were more, but that’s a story for another day).
The other day we were having a sisters’ catch-up. Something that we try to do a couple of times a year, as we all live far apart and life gets busy. They’re in different phases of their life than me. I still have young children. Their children are adults, newly moved out and starting university, or just about to finish school. But we love catching up and sharing stories and champagne.
After a couple of champagnes and lots of chatting about life, my oldest sister says… “You should start an Only Fans page!”
“Umm, what!?” I ask, puzzled.
“You know, so you can share what you guys get up to as a family. I’m sure people would love to hear about that”, she says excitedly.
“I’m pretty sure Only Fans is for porn,” I say. I’m smirking now.
“Are you sure? I think you can put all sorts of things on there and people will pay to subscribe and see your videos” she replies again. She tells me that she has a friend who has a page.
“Is your friend into porn? Does she share pictures of her feet and stuff? I’m sure it’s for porn”, I say again, as I start to google it…. ‘what is only fans for…?’
adult industry workers and pornography content creators. Some other popular content creators in other industries music, and fitness also make it worthy for them (https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+only+fans)
Hmmm, this confirms my suspicions.
I’m reminded of a conversation that my husband and I had with a friend (let’s call him Guy) and his girlfriend one time.
“How come it’s mostly women on Only Fans?” Guy asks, confused.
“Probably because women don’t want to pay to see men naked,” I say.
“I’m sure there are some women who want to see a penis” he rebuts.
“Yeah, but they’re not going to pay to see something that they could see for free.”
“What do you mean?” he asks puzzled.
“Well, let’s say I’m walking down the street and I say to a man, “Hey, can I see your penis?” I reckon 7 times out of 10, a man will show me his penis”.
My husband jumps in, in men’s defence, he reckons it’d be more like 2 out of 10 times. He likes statistics, but he’s missing the point.
“Ok, it might not be that high in general, but for drunk men, out on the town on a Friday or Saturday night, the penis tally would add up pretty quickly. There have also been times when I, and I know of other women, have been walking down the street and without asking, we’ll get shown a penis. Some creepy dude out there flashing his junk at young women to make them uncomfortable”.
Guy thinks about it and says, “Yeah, I think I’ll keep my day job”.
Anyway, long story short. I’m not going to start an Only Fans page.
But I do like the idea of a blog.