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Sex Negativity and its Impact on the Creator Economy and Mental Health
At our former mental health practice, we had one of the first of a handful of practices to have a Sex Positive Team of clinicians focused on serving our community of sex workers, LGBQTIA+ individuals and others with marginalized sexual identities and practices. This team was dismantled to the best of our knowledge after we (Owen and Carlene) sold the practice. When we heard the news that OnlyFans was initially planning to ban explicit content in October ostensibly in response to pressure from payment processors and investors, this news hit home for us. We know that OnlyFans has been important in the lives of a number of our staff members and clients and that such a ban would disproportionately impact individuals often overlooked by other platforms, including those who are neurodivergent, BIPOC, kinky or who have a wider range of body types than what tends to gain traction on mainstream adult sites. While OnlyFans eventually dialed back their plans to ban t…