NEW PLATFORMS, NEW RISKS: BRAZILIAN WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS ABOUT USING ONLYFANS AND ASSOCIATED CHALLENGES
Feminism; pornography; pandemic; gender inequality; sexual exploitation
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the sale of erotic content on the internet became a source of income for many women who were negatively affected by the health, economic and social crisis that devastated the country. Thus, at the same time that the unemployment rate was growing in Brazil, OnlyFans, a platform used to sell pornographic content, registered a large increase in the number of users and began to appear frequently in the media as an alternative job for women. However, little was said about the dangers related to using the site and the implications of this growth. The popularization of OnlyFans in Brazil from 2020 onwards therefore raises several questions about the platformization of work, the sexual exploitation of women's bodies and the strengthening of neoliberal ideology in Latin American countries. These are the issues that will be analyzed in this research, which aims to identify the consequences of the increased use of OnlyFans in the lives of Brazilian women through semi-structured interviews carried out with nine content creators who started using the platform during the pandemic.