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Hmm.

Um, you know, I've had an OnlyFans for a very long time.

I was young, dumb, and full of [bleep],

and so, you know, I gave it a try.

It's really hard to say

what a sex tape is like in the age of OnlyFans.

Having sex with someone famous wasn't enough anymore.

What else can stand out?

Now we find ourselves in this new world of media and OnlyFans.

So, OnlyFans-- I didn't even know what it was.

- You guys ready? - Is it a porn site?

Like, what are people trying to do on there? Are people topless?

- Are people naked? - Happy 4th of July.

OnlyFans has really changed the adult industry in general.

It is one step forward of controlling and giving consent.

I couldn't perform when I, like, saw people commenting.

I liked people watching me be free.

It's not even about being naked.

It's just about being free and being kind to one another.

Pornhub and all the tube sites aren't

paying the amount of money that they used to.

I can't believe you can make that much money.

If you have a big social media following and you turn 18,

you're contemplating whether you're gonna be

a porn star on Only Fans at a click of a button.

As technology progresses,

our ability to use technology for sexual purposes progresses.

The internet kind of had to make us confront sex.

70% of the internet is dedicated to pornography.

That sells. Very literally, sex sells.

It's a tale as old as time that people want to exploit sex.

It used to just be confined into the bedroom

or sort of in a private space, and now it's everywhere.

The vast majority of adults have taken and sent nude photos.

The more we talk about things, the more common they become,

the more desensitized we are to them.

So, something like a sex tape

just becomes kind of normal in a weird way.

So, sex wasn't enough anymore,

and having sex with someone famous wasn't enough anymore.

What else can stand out about it?

OnlyFans was created in 2016

by Tim Stokely and his brother Thomas Stokely,

two British entrepreneurs.

I remember there was this kind of, like,

weird connotation of, like, what is it? Is it a porn site?

Like, what are people trying to do on there?

Are people topless? Are people naked? Whatever it is.

OnlyFans is a subscription-based platform

where people can interact with their fans directly.

It's direct-to-consumer content.

It was first premiered, you know,

"The New York Times" kind of wrote about it

as like, well, famous porn star.

You get to interact with your fans.

That's sort of how it was marketed,

but it's not actually what was happening.

What it is is a way of monetizing

a social media following.

OnlyFans, um, started out as

the space for sex workers, but...

The thing about OnlyFans that's making it work

is it's regular people. You always read these stories.

- Yeah. - It's like divorced mom

with two kids is making $800,000 a month.

During the pandemic, the most popular thing

that arose out of it was OnlyFans

and all the webcam sites.

All these companies became big

because all these people were home.

They were collecting unemployment,

and they were able to see live girls

doing whatever they wanted them to do over a webcam.

And people thought it was cool.

Especially since everyone was isolated at home,

celebrities have kind of come in there and said,

"Okay, this is maybe more

of a little bit of, like, salacious content

that I wouldn't necessarily post on Instagram or Facebook

or Twitter or whatever it is, but I can post it here

and know that people genuinely want to see it."

I think it's a way for them, the celebrities,

to tell their side of the story.

Hello. I'm Shanna Moakler.

I'm a former Miss USA, Playboy Playmate, actress,

TV personality, and successful OnlyFans model.

You know, when I was a kid, when I was a little girl,

I would see those, like, you know, Barbie commercials.

We're in style.

And we're really into Perfume Pretty Barbie.

And I didn't want the Barbies.

I wanted to be the little girl in the Barbie commercial.

I started modeling and acting, uh...

gosh, I guess when I was 16 years old.

I'm from Rhode Island, so I started off in pageants.

I was Miss Rhode Island Teen USA.

And then I became Miss USA in 1995.

Um, but I always had a fascination with "Playboy."

There was this always, like, glamorous, cool thing about it,

and I always wanted to do it.

I became Miss December 2001.

After doing "Playboy," this is the thing about Playboy--

you know, you get $20,000 to be a centerfold,

and "Playboy" owns everything--

all of our pictures.

I don't even own my pictures,

and I have no ownership of the title

of being Miss December 2001.

So, I can't make any money off of that.

Hey, guys, Shayna Moakler here.

And today I'm gonna be taking

the Tahoe Blue Quarantini Challenge.

So, OnlyFans-- I didn't even know what it was.

And someone was like, why don't you have an OnlyFans?

I'm like, what is that? And they're like,

"Oh, well, you control it."

And at first, OnlyFans kind of had a more salacious, naughty,

oh, if you have an OnlyFans,

then, you know, you're doing porn.

And I learned really quickly that that's not

what was really going on in that platform.

I keep it very classy. I don't do any, um, pornography.

Um, I don't, uh, play with toys

or do masturbation or anything like that.

I keep it very "Playboy"-esque.

I did fall on the bathroom one time.

I was doing, um, a little video,

and I was using, like, baby oil and stuff.

And I went to, like, grab it,

and there's oil, like, all over the floor.

And I fell, and I was like...

I was just on the floor, butt naked and covered in oil.

And I just remember being like, what am I doing?

Like, what am I doing.

Like, I don't know, it was just, like, you had to be there--

one of those kind of moments.

But yeah, you know, it's a hazard of the job.

People can just play to their fanbase,

and they can just be in charge of all of it.

They can be in charge of what they do, when they do it,

how they do it, and what they charge for it.

So, I've had an OnlyFans for a very long time,

but for me, it was kind of a no-brainer.

Um, you know, back when I started,

didn't really know what I was getting myself into at the time,

but I was young, dumb, and full of [bleep],

and so, you know, I gave it a try.

My OnlyFan content is me, just solo stuff.

I do a lot of things that are driven around my big booty,

but also because I am only doing solo things,

it's only me that I have to rely on.

So, I don't really have those mishaps of someone

not showing up or something kind of that nature.

So, I mean, I'm pretty lucky. I mean, I'm a great employee.

Number one employee of the month.

When I got in the industry,

for a girl to have her own solo model site, it took a lot.

There was a great barrier of entry.

You had to have a hosting company that cost you money,

you had to have a designer, you had to have a photographer,

you had to have all these people do what you can't do.

With OnlyFans, they've made such an easy interface

that it's just like uploading anything to Facebook.

You create your platform by yourself.

You don't really need much other than an ID

and to verify that it's you.

So, it was more content creator-friendly.

So, different people have their OnlyFans

set up in different ways.

Sometimes people charge for a subscription,

and then they just-- whatever content they post,

whatever they put in their feed, that's what you get

for, you know, the amount of time that you're subscribed for.

Some people charge maybe a very low price

so that you have access to their menu.

Some people don't even charge for their subscriptions at all,

and they just charge for exclusive content.

They're--basically, they're, like, locked.

Like, you have to unlock the post by paying for it.

And then there are other options which are, like, more personal,

if you can do, like, requests

for something a little bit more bespoke.

Hey guys. So, um, I wanted to jump on here live

and talk to everybody.

I wrote everyone's questions down.

There is sort of an art to it,

um, and it is a different kind of a platform

unlike any of the other platforms.

Are you gonna have free-- a free subscription

and then charge people for photos?

Are you going to charge for a subscription?

Um, are you gonna chat? Are you gonna do lives?

Um, how are you gonna interact with your fans?

It's a full-time job.

I don't think people realize that it is a full-time job,

and you have to constantly be making content,

especially if you have subscriptions that people

are paying monthly for.

You have to have, you know, a certain amount of--

of product that they're paying for.

You're gonna lose that subscriber.

I mean, some celebrities, like I said,

have teams of people doing it.

Yeah, my decision.

I love OnlyFans because, yes, to me,

it is one step forward of controlling

and giving consent to your own life,

your own shares, your own whatever you wanna do.

For two years, I've had it. And I want to say,

I see why men and women go towards sex as a relief.

When you're, like, not getting your fix from real life,

but I can go to an OnlyFans and I can have love,

kindness, um, nudity,

that's how it feels. It feels [bleep] good.

I don't remember how I heard that Farrah had an OnlyFans.

I feel like I just knew she did.

And then I started noticing that she was getting

into tabloids again because of her OnlyFans,

because of the menus that she was offering,

which was, you know, peeing, pooping,

you know, different things. It was--but she does--

she only does solo stuff.

Like, she's not with, uh,

another partner or anything like that.

We see every day that people fear their nudity getting leaked

and losing, like, rights or control over themselves,

and I'm just not gonna fear that anymore.

No one makes my choice for my career changes.

No one tells me what to do with me.

And I'm very just happy I stand in that.

We all have certain kinks or things that we like.

And when people start to look at it bad

and put shame on things like that

because they wouldn't choose to do it, well, you know,

I always say, to each his own.

What works for you may not work for me,

but that doesn't mean that you're a bad person.

It doesn't mean that you are any different than me.

It's just you like different stuff.

At the end of the day,

I'm not gonna be... a hot mess and broke all at once, so...

I turned it into a business.

There are those people that kinda--

not that they necessarily wanna cross over,

but they're kinda, you know, like, treading lightly,

but you can do both.

You can be taken seriously, and that it's not just like,

"Oh, this is a fluke. This is what I wanna do."

I think because of that, they're able to and they don't

have to be like, "Oh, I'm officially crossing over.

I'm officially doing this."

Yeah. I do think more famous people are gonna do an OnlyFans.

There are people

that you wouldn't believe it that are on OnlyFans.

Bella Thorne came out and did something

on OnlyFans.

I think Denise Richards is on OnlyFans.

Tommy Lee, Carmen Electra,

Aubrey O'Day, Cardi B.

We'll clap for 'em.

Wait, wait, wait. Put that all right here, baby.

I can't believe you can make that much money.

I mean, who wouldn't do that?

She says she's making up to $150,000 a month.

If you had any inclination to do this,

if you felt like you might profit

and had no real qualms with doing so, why not?

Hi. I'm Dan Benson.

I'm a former Disney Channel celebrity

turned adult entertainer.

That's a thing.

I'm Maitland Ward.

You might recognize me from shows like "Boy Meets World."

Or you might recognize me from my newer creative endeavors.

I'm the only Disney girl to ever give you everything.

Hi. I'm Dan Benson. I'm a former Disney Channel celebrity

turned adult entertainer.

That's a thing.

I played the character Zeke Beakerman

on a Disney Channel show called

"Wizards of Waverly Place" many years ago,

who was a dorky recurring character.

Hang on! It's about to get bumpy.

Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh!

Yes!

I heard an ad on the radio one day that was like...

"Do you wanna be a model?

Do you wanna be an actor?"

And of course, little Dan was like,

"Yes. Yes, I do."

So, that started this crazy journey of auditioning for parts

and quickly, uh, booking small, little parts on Disney.

So, I quickly learned the Disney style of acting.

When I was auditioning for the character of Zeke,

on the script, it read,

"Justin, it's really scary. Don't go in there."

And I knew there is no limits to how big

you can make these characters on Disney.

So, I went in there and, I, like, did

my full Jim Carrey style, like...

"It's--Justin, it's really crazy in there!

Don't go in there!"

Like, the absolute, like,

most ridiculous take on-- on that role.

And the casting directors, of course, were like, "Whoa."

I just had a one-line part.

"Justin, that movie is way too scary."

There's some things in this life that you can never unsee.

I knew that this was like

a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

It was the most exciting time of my life.

You know, if I went to Disneyland,

I was in trouble for sure.

It's funny. When you go to Disneyland...

...they'll be like this.

It's that look like, "Oh, my God, I know her."

Because I think they feel

like I was in their home every Friday night

or in reruns that they watched on Disney Channel.

Honestly, I was such a huge fan of "Boy Meets World" growing up.

It was on Disney Channel, which is how I would watch it.

So, Maitland played Rachel.

So, she came in the college years,

kind of like the fun, sexy girl,

always, like, you know, smiley and perky

and always fun to be around.

You're looked at as a celebrity. "Wow. You're on Boy Meets World.

You had the perfect life. You had the perfect set.

Oh, my God, you had everything going for you."

One aspect I don't think people realize is

just because you're famous does not mean you're wealthy.

They don't understand that

I was working, like, part-time jobs also.

Yeah. For--For the first two seasons

of "Wizards of Waverly Place," I worked at Starbucks.

That was another thing I struggled with.

Like, I had never had money, ever.

Like, at the end of every year, I'd always--

Like, I'd get through. I had a place to live,

I had a great, supportive family,

I had friends, I was comfortable,

lived a comfortable life and did exciting things,

uh, but at the end of the year, I never had money.

It's weird because you have to live up

to a certain standard, but then at the same time,

you can't be yourself all the way.

Because even when you're in public,

you have people, like, look at you

and you have to, like, be on all the time.

When you're in your early 20s,

you're still finding out who you are.

And so to have that-- that kind of fame

layered on top of that,

I also noticed that it gave you a false sense of self-worth,

and you would tie your self-worth

to how popular you were.

I did feel very successful and that I was doing well,

but I always thought I was gonna lose it at any minute.

And that's really a thing that celebrity and actors feel

all the time, that they're-- it can go away in a second.

People like fame. They feel good when they're famous.

That's why they seek fame.

It's something they desire, they like,

and when they lose, they miss.

And that has been my biggest sense,

is that the biggest stress for most people that are famous

is the possibility of losing it.

That is stressful.

I'd always been a bit shy and private,

but at the same time, those early 20s,

I was... going to Hollywood parties.

I was on set filming

one of the most popular Disney shows of all time.

I was meeting some of the most famous people.

I got to hang out and get to know Zac Efron.

Vanessa Hudgens was a good friend of mine,

Uh, Ashley Tisdale.

There was also just, like, insanely fun, exciting ways

to discover my sexuality in that--in that world,

things like ecstasy for the first time,

or, you know, strip poker nights,

and it--it was-- it was incredible.

I remember, wow, it was pretty emotional when it ended,

like the final episode.

I remember Michael Jacobs telling us before it ended,

saying, "You're not gonna have anything like this ever again."

And he meant--he meant that

in a very true way because he's right.

It was never gonna be like that again.

After the show,

and after the kind of popularity faded away,

the fame faded away,

I really felt lost and depressed

because I had wrapped up my sense of self-worth

in that fame, that recognition, that character.

So, it was really hard.

It was really hard to-- to come back from that.

It was actually, like, sort of like a--

just a freight train hit you because it was over.

Like, all of that was over,

and you like, what do I do now in life?

I wanted attention a lot.

I was a little naughty. I wasn't over-the-top naughty.

I started to get more and more messages.

I really am a sexual performer.

Like, I really am.

And then, of course, I realized, like, okay, well...

Now I know what I need to do.

After "Wizards of Waverly Place,"

I was really working at trying to change

from this supporting character archetype, this best friend,

I really wanted a chance to be the leading man.

I was trying to, like, you know,

find my way in the world.

It was really hard, and it got harder as the years go on

to say, "Oh, you're an actress. What have you done?"

And I say, "Boy Meets World."

You, like, have to start over from scratch.

And they don't want you to start over from scratch.

So many casting directors and producers and networks

would say, "No, she did great, but no, we've seen her on that.

They--People know her from that. We don't want her."

And they won't let you get outside that box

that they put you in, but it's like a coffin.

It really--in the long run, it is. At first, it's like,

oh, it's a nice little present. No, it's a coffin.

We all just want love and attention,

And especially me. I wanted attention a lot.

I started doing things that I like to do, like cosplay.

I do a sexy cosplay. I never thought I could make

a career--side career off of it.

I remember her saying that

she really liked to do cosplay on the side.

That was something that she was really interested in,

where she dressed up as different characters,

and she kind of dipped her toe and was like,

"Let me see if this, you know, maybe could work

or if people are interested in this."

Look right here for a sec.

I remember the first time I knew

I was famous for something other than "Boy Meets World"

was when was at Comic-Con, and the guy goes,

"I love you so much," and comes up to me,

and I was like, "Oh, thanks." I thought he was like,

"Oh, 'Boy Meets World' cosplay. I like it."

He was like, "I love you on Snapchat.

I watch it all the time," and he barely knew

what "Boy Meets World," like, was.

So, I had an Instagram page and...

I dove so deeply into bodybuilding

and connected with it so well.

I started to get a lot of self-confidence

as the shape of my body completely transformed.

I lost a lot of fat in my face.

I put on 20 pounds of muscle. It's very exciting.

And so I was, uh, really excited to share that

with my Instagram followers.

And as I started to do that,

I started to get more and more messages from people

that were like, "Oh, my God, you're so hot.

You're sexy. You're, like, beautiful."

You know, a lot of these being

what I thought were, like, beautiful women

were doing this as well, and so I'm constantly like,

"Oh, you're cute too," you know, and, uh...

but bless my heart, I just, like, didn't realize

there's an entire industry

built around a thing called baiting,

which is where people make fake accounts.

They create these alternate fake personalities online

and then reach out to celebrities,

and then for sometimes months on end,

craft this narrative and get people comfortable

with sharing nude pictures of themselves.

The internet is full of these backwaters.

It's a variety of targets, a variety of people.

I fell into that trap probably more than once

and, um, honestly made kind of an emotional connection

with some of these people that was--that was authentic.

I was sending nude photos to these people

I thought I was in a relationship with

and eventually found out that those images

were being sold on websites.

There are whole sites devoted to these photos,

typically hosted, uh,

in the Middle East or other places, um,

outside of the U.S. jurisdiction,

and the victims can do nothing.

You go on Reddit, for example.

There--These photographs are everywhere.

There's groups where these guys,

they have just chat groups on there about how to do it,

where it's found. "I saw this, I saw that."

I was really hurt and really embarrassed.

I think that was the biggest thing.

I didn't tell anyone for a long time

'cause I felt so naive and-- and just like...

you know, I truly was just, like, looking for love

and a connection and, um, also was just a horny young kid.

There was just fear that, like, it's always there,

and it could always be found out at any time.

Anyone could find out. There could be an article on TMZ

that comes out tomorrow that's like,

"Former Disney star's naked all over the internet."

Hi, guys. Good morning.

I started posting other pictures,

and I got more followers, and it was starting to grow,

and my social media was growing.

But then I started doing things like

I was, you know, I'm a daring girl.

I'm a little daring.

I followed her on Twitter, and I remember I would see her

kind of going the sexier route.

I would see her post kind of these, like, you know,

pictures of her maybe topless or something like that.

And I remember being like, oh, wow, you know,

this is a career change.

Happy 4th of July. Yay!

And then they kept trying to take my pictures and stuff down

because I was a little naughty.

I wasn't over-the-top naughty most of the time,

but I got really, like, flustered and, like, angry

that my pictures are getting taken down,

even if it was just like

a shadow of a nipple or something.

But I did get my pictures removed quite a bit.

You know, I was working a regular job at an agency,

and my CEO at the time, like, found some Reddit thread

that had all sorts of my nudes.

He brought it to me, like, "What is this?" Like, do--

You know, because I think he assumed that, like,

I did that for a living or something.

So, I almost lost my job because of it.

It was pretty traumatic.

If you're victimized like this,

that image is gonna be there forever.

And the reality is, is that everybody involved in that

is making money except for the victims.

Someone else was making money from this,

and I was struggling to survive.

I couldn't afford the medicated dog food

that my dog needed as he's getting older.

And I, of course, like, did everything I could

to, like, take down these, take down these.

But you knock one down, and three more pop up.

So, it was like, I quickly learned that, like,

there's no-- there's no going back.

You know what? I can't stop you

from putting this stuff out there, but, man,

I can sure take your power away.

I had so many people, like, following me because they saw,

"Ooh, you do this cosplay. I knew you from back then,"

and this was back in 2018.

Um, so I was like, talking to my fans about it, like, on Twitter.

They were like, "Why don't you sell content?"

And I didn't even know what content was.

I said, "Well, I--like what?"

And they go, "You can take, like,

you know, nudie pictures and, like,

do a little racier photos with like, a girl and stuff.

And I was like, well, do I wanna do something sexual on here?

From the nudes leaking online and from Instagram,

a lot of people were commenting more and more on my photos,

especially the ones where I was shirtless,

and obviously, really letting me know

that's the kind of content they're looking for.

That's the kind of content they really love.

I was, like, tiptoeing into it, and, um, oh, you know what?

I'm just gonna explore and see what I wanna do.

It brought a lot of unwanted attention at first

to the point where I almost had to delete

all my social media because I didn't want that.

I wasn't ready for that, and I felt like

it reminded me of all the stuff

that I'd been taken advantage of.

So, I would say, oh, let me do some solo stuff.

Let me try it out and see how it feels, and I liked it.

And I realized I really am a sexual performer.

So, I was really fighting against it for the longest time.

You have to explore your sexuality and--

and see who you are as a person.

When I was younger, I did not do that.

I was--covered everything up.

I repressed so much about myself,

but when I finally was exploring, I felt so liberated.

And then eventually, I kind of made the decision

to do OnlyFans.

Hey, what's up, TikTok? Some of you might recognize me

as Zeke from Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place."

Uh, I now currently work in adult entertainment.

So I started doing live streaming

and doing like a nude live stream show.

But I was so nervous that I had to hide the chat

because I, like, I don't know, I couldn't perform when I, like,

saw people commenting as things were happening.

And then, like, as I did more of them,

I gradually was like, okay,

I can, like, look for a little while

and, like, see what people are saying

and then they're, like,

telling me things to do and other things.

And I was like, okay, no, I'm the boss here.

I'm still the director here. Like, I'm in charge.

It definitely opened my eyes to like, oh, no, I'm doing this,

and I--and it's like, no, it's live. It's interactive.

There's people watching. This is like--

That was when I actually got a chance

to be vulnerable and be myself.

And that's where I'm merging the worlds of Dan

and this, like, Dan Benson,

this--this naked, shirtless guy on OnlyFans.

You know, I'm really thankful that the OnlyFans market,

like, appeared because it provided me with an opportunity

to go, you know what?

I can't stop you from putting this stuff out there.

But man, I can sure take your power away

and take this power back for myself.

I used my OnlyFans, like, the live shows because

they have a live feed on there and stuff.

And I have interactions

with my quarantine man, that I called him.

He's a headless [bleep] guy.

He's got a big [bleep] and no head.

He can't talk back.

Uh, mainly it's just solo kind of content.

And now I am straight. I'm not gay,

and I create content specifically for gay men

that I think they would enjoy.

I do worry about some people who think and don't agree

with someone who is straight doing that.

At the end of the day,

all I can do is just be really open and honest.

I think it's stuff that they would enjoy,

and it's also stuff that I enjoy doing.

I do a lot of custom videos.

It's basically like cameo, except I will masturbate for you

and say your name...

or do whatever scenario within reason.

So, I'm still kind of experimenting and pushing

the boundaries of what I'm comfortable with

and I learn, okay, I did that-- that kind of content.

I wasn't really super comfortable with that.

I don't regret crossing those lines

because it's like, oh, I'm finding out

what works for me 'cause it's new.

I liked people watching me be free,

and I just couldn't believe they were gonna pay money for it.

Like, a lot of money for it. And then I was like, oh, girls.

'Cause I have a very high interest in girls as well.

So, um, I did that, and that went over great.

It was so fun. And I was like, oh, my God.

We did slumber parties, and we did, like,

all sorts of little naughty sex and everything.

It was just like that step that I felt like I...

if I didn't take it, it was like an itch you can't scratch.

Everybody from my mainstream career

to my porn career told me never to tell the press.

Don't talk to them. They will humiliate you.

They will tear you down.

They will make you feel, like, just degraded.

I actually had a publicist say--

he texted me when he saw something in the "Daily Mail."

It was me in a costume, like some,

I don't know, Comic-Con costume.

He's like, "What are you trying to be, a porn star now?"

I didn't think about it at the time, but I'm like,

why was that an insult? Like...

Maybe I am. Maybe that's what I wanna do.

I think it's sad that so much of, like,

celebrity sex tapes and everything are shameful.

Like, women can only gain popularity and success

with these tapes through shame.

We can go through tons of news stories

where people are definitely--

their story's getting told when they don't want it to be.

Porn is pretty threatening to the status quo,

and I think it has all kinds of repercussions in our society.

I was working as a reporter/writer

at, um, "In Touch" and "Life & Style" for digital,

and my editor at the time was awesome.

And I remember she said to me,

"Hey, we got a message kind of from Maitland.

She's really interested in promoting her foray

into adult film entertainment.

Would you be interested in talking to her?"

And I said to myself, okay, this is a no-brainer.

This is my favorite show. Obviously, I'm gonna take it.

And so we spoke on the phone for probably an hour or so,

telling me all about why she decided to make this move.

And it was just really like an open and honest conversation

about everything she'd been kind of doing

and everything she wants to do going forward.

There's something more here than just saying,

oh, Maitland is going into porn.

Her story and her headline were so positive,

and it said, like, "Maitland's authentic self,"

and she was congratulating me for this and saying,

"This is amazing. It's this bold journey she's taking."

Nobody came against me. Nobody was, like, so negative.

They were all just like, "What? Can you believe this?"

And it ended up I did not get negative press.

I did not get negative press.

I think Maitland's really lucky that she had the support

that she had between her husband and her parents.

Not everyone agrees with,

you know, the stuff that people do.

And I think that Maitland is

so beyond lucky to have that support.

I thought for many years if I showed my truth,

like, people would reject me.

I was overwhelmed and blown away by all of the support and love

that I got from people.

Live in your truth. You-- it might surprise you.

OnlyFans has really changed the adult industry in general.

You're able to brand yourself,

and you're able to do what you wanna do.

OnlyFans had some good-- maybe some good sides to it,

and then some bad sides.

We have so much more access to celebrities' lives

through our phones,

through different types of platforms and media.

It can get dangerous in this field.

OnlyFans should be, like, working a bit harder

to protect their creators.

My life was saved that day,

and don't know what would have happened if he wasn't there.

With OnlyFans, I found that people,

more so than anything else, they just want a connection.

They wanna feel seen,

and they want that authentic sense of,

I'm connecting with this person,

and then we're sharing a sexual experience together.

I'd, like, just hang out with, like, people in there because

it was like a way of social connection and everything, too.

But people would be asking for custom videos of me, like,

pretending that I'm at a bar meeting them or on a date.

A lot of people just want, like, a cameo,

like a naked cameo, basically.

Hi. Thanks for being my fan.

And I even give "Boy Meets World" requests.

And I'll play my character, kind of.

So, yeah, like, one time, they wanted me getting

purple lingerie like I did on the show,

and I was like, you know, it's fun.

All right. I feel like I've been talking to you guys for--

well, it's been almost, like, 30 minutes. Um...

Well, there's just times where I just ask, you know,

the fanbase, like, "What do you wanna see?

Do you want to see live videos?

Do you want to see more bikini, more lingerie?"

Kind of things like that.

You know, men usually aren't, um,

the most, uh, difficult of these to understand.

The wet t-shirts and feet pics

are, you know, really that hard to come by.

I was not that... scared of people seeing me naked,

but I was scared of the repercussions

that would have on my life.

The--I think the only downside to OnlyFans is that

they feel like they're my best friend now.

OnlyFans had some good-- maybe some good sides to it

and then some bad sides.

Allowing people into your home and to see your daily life,

they feel like they're in your home.

Social media, I think, is a great tool,

but at the same time, I do think

it can be a little bit dangerous.

Whether you're on OnlyFans, Instagram, whatever it is,

people are crazy.

You tend to feel like you're a fly on the wall,

which I think just adds to it.

It's like you get to get this fun peek into the bedroom

to see them with their clothes off

in the most intimate moment of their life.

What better way to feel like they belong to us?

You're seeking this content out, and it is done discreetly.

You know, you don't have to be in a public conversation

with your favorite person on OnlyFans.

This is a private interaction for you and them.

That's what I never understood about social media in general.

Like, I've never, like, been like, "I'm gonna go

to their Instagram page and let them have it,"

but, you know, sadly, there are a lot of people that--that do.

I don't get it. It's like, if you don't like somebody

or you don't like something, scroll on by.

Don't look at it. You know, block it. You don't have to--

You don't have to look at it.

You don't have to see my breasts.

You can scroll on by. You don't have to. You know?

It's, like, ridiculous.

The power of media really has

some people messed up in the head.

When I was on "The Price Is Right"...

It's a new truck!

...somebody honed in and would watch every day

and think the eyebrow raise, the smile

was specifically to him.

So, he starts to fantasize that, "You're my wife."

This guy took a bus from Cleveland to Los Angeles

and was coming to see me.

Now, he also thought I was a vampire

and probably wanted to put a stake through my heart.

I don't know. Luckily, we had the week off,

and he was at my job.

Another time, this guy-- he watched everything I did.

He listened to every podcast. He became--began to fantasize,

and in his mind, I was Cleopatra,

and he was King Tut, and we were supposed to be together.

Come to find out, the stalker, who didn't even have a car,

got 30 miles from where he lived

up to Stevenson Ranch, where I had my house,

took the--removed the screens off my window

and was watching us through the kitchen window.

We didn't even notice him,

and he had threatened to rape and kill me.

So, I say that my life was saved that day

because I let a guy friend come over that was really big.

He looked, like, intimidating,

and I don't know what would have happened if he wasn't there.

We are social beings,

and sex and aggression are closely related.

I believe people want to put themselves into these videos.

At home, if you're not getting the gritty, salacious sexuality

that you want, you can scratch that itch

by going on OnlyFans.

Our sexual preference start to become very specialized.

Fact that people who can't make a living

being teachers or plumbers or what have you

can make seven, eight figures

just by controlling their own brand--

that is the 21st century in action.

OnlyFans has the most traffic,

and so that's why no one's gonna leave it.

Celebrities have sex, too. We're all human.

Everyone has sex.

OnlyFans is a natural extension of what has been going on,

and it's brilliant, and it works.

But you have to be comfortable

with the fact that I can still pull up a video of you now

and watch you have sex.

Uh, OnlyFans--that has grown exponentially over the years,

and that I think it's created more problems,

but at the same time,

it also gives us more-- more challenges to look at.

But I do think, okay, what's next?

I don't think there's much negativity to OnlyFans.

I think it's more mainstream now than it ever has been.

So, I feel like now it's definitely more like,

"Oh, OnlyFans. Yeah, of course."

With the celebrities coming into OnlyFans,

it does legitimize it, and that's good.

And it does become, like, cool. I think it was always cool,

and everybody always saw it.

They just--now they can say, "Oh, so and so is doing it,

so now it's, like, valid or relevant."

I've never been on OnlyFans,

but what I do like about it is that

you have people who are in control.

OnlyFans provided me

with an opportunity to take this power back for myself,

and that was a really liberating experience.

There's much greater latitude,

much greater acceptance right now than ever before.

It democratizes the space

by giving anybody with a camera the ability to film themselves

in whatever way they choose and charge money for it.

Today, women have so much more of a place of power in porn.

Everybody has their sexual side, and I think it's just exciting

that celebrities are helping to lead the charge

in terms of, like, sharing the idea that it's okay

to be comfortable in expressing it in a more public way.

I think that's gonna be the future

of how you see a lot of content these days.

I would imagine that from OnlyFans comes more OnlyFans,

the same way that from MySpace came Facebook and Twitter,

that there will be new, bigger, better platforms

for people to monetize that sort of content.

If it's somebody that's very well known

and has the potential to make a lot of money,

they're just gonna do it for themself.

No, I didn't! I love that.

I mean, you don't even need to go on Tommy Lee's OnlyFans.

He posts his [bleep] and [bleep] on Twitter all the time.

Should we play a little game

of I'll show you mine if you show me yours?

Clearly, Tommy Lee doesn't need the money.

I think he's just doing it because it's fun.

It's not only about sex content.

It's about any content at all you want.

So, I think in this world, an aggregator like that

kind of really works,

especially the way everybody is a celebrity.

It doesn't surprise me that Tommy Lee is on OnlyFans,

because, for one, I mean, the way that he was treated

after the sex tape, I mean, he was lauded,

he was celebrated, and then he, I'm sure,

came to believe that what he had to offer

sort of physically and sort of, um, visually, was fantastic.

And so it's like a well-worn area for him.

He's kind of a pioneer, right? So, like, why not?

Tommy Lee comes full circle with his OnlyFans account.

Well, who doesn't wanna watch a good sex tape?

Particularly when it's a celebrity.

And everyone is interested in sex.

Humans are consumed by sex.

Everything that's invented,

the first thing they use it for is porn.

Every platform, some sex will be sold.

It's encouraged a whole generation now

to produce sex tapes. - It's all my fault!

There's definitely been an evolution from the early days

of the celebrity sex tape and someone's images being released

without their consent to now with OnlyFans where

influential people are choosing to curate

these images of themselves and to sell them to people.

It used to be like a scarlet letter.

That speaks to how culturally, sex tapes change.

The thing about celebrity sex tapes, I think,

is that they become

these giant talking points for the culture at large.

It is where we go to work out our dreams, our fantasies,

our desires, our fears, our anxieties.

And that's kind of what makes

celebrity sex tapes so interesting.

It is a way of mainstreaming the conversation about sex.

And celebrities are kind of these

larger-than-life figures that we can project

all of that stuff onto and kind of work out

how we feel about it through their images.

When you look at celebrity sex tapes

all the way from the 1980s all the way up until today,

you have some of the most iconic celebrities involved,

some of the biggest moments that have pushed pop culture forward

and pulled it back at other times.

Celebrities shape culture,

but they also reflect it.

I think it's a big ball of cause and effect.

We are at the logical next step

of where celebrity sex and technology intersect.

Who knows where tech will lead us

when it comes to sexual content?

AR, VR, AI--all of it is gonna change everything,

including what it means to be a celebrity.

We have to think about the way those two things intersect.

These societal rules of, like, who, you know,

who really makes them and how outdated do they become?

Do whatever you really want. Just be honest.

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