Why I’m back on OnlyFans

So, I’m back to posting on OnlyFans. Here’s the link.

Why? In a word, money, honey.

Among other reasons, I stopped in order to devote more time and energy to making this newsletter profitable enough to live on and save a little by itself. I usually pull in between $1300-$1500 per month, before taxes, on Substack.

Even in low-cost Alabama, that is not enough to live on. Forget, obviously, saving. I’ve been supplementing that with help from my mom, freelance work, and selling the Bitcoin I’ve long HODLed.

I’m not out of Bitcoin yet. Even still, I think future Cathy would want current Cathy to get back to black in less time than it’s likely to take me to double my Substack earnings.

I’m also back to posting smut because it checks off a lot of boxes for me. It’s part-time. It’s fully remote. It’s got a reasonably high hourly rate. I’m not morally conflicted about it, unlike a lot of Huntsville’s defense industry jobs. Also, a lot of the work is genuinely fun.

I’m not just not morally conflicted about posting smut. I’m doing the Lord’s work.

First, it’s helping men feel less lonely.

Second, making and selling pornography under my own unique name helps destigmatize sex and porn.

It should be obvious that smart, empowered, feminist women with options also choose to make and sell porn. But it’s not and so I’m at least trying to help with that. Even if you never sign up to look, just knowing that I’m out and proud means something.

Plus, 99.9% of my OnlyFans subscribers find me through my writing. Posting anonymously would not only violate my “sex work is valid” value but also my equally important “avoid unnecessary work” value.

To be honest, when I decided to start posting again, I didn’t have the following reason in mind explicitly. Rather, it occurred to me after I started making new content.

One thing I really like about my partner Rob is that we’re both switches. BDSM is a framework we use to take turns performing masculinity and femininity. It’s also useful to us in that we’re both high-openness, novelty seeking, and easily bored.

I think it’s cool, all else equal, for two opposite sex, cisgendered people to have slightly kinky, gender-bending sex.

At the same time, that doesn’t do all that much for anyone else.

One of the reasons I haven’t written much about the nuts-and-bolts of sex, sex work, or polyamory is that any individual’s sexual and romantic choices only matter so much outside of that person and their immediate circle.

I am genuinely trying to change the world with this newsletter. I will also gladly settle for helping a future generation understand how they might and might not want to change it. At the very least, I’m happy to know I’ve changed a few hearts and minds about some of the ways we might prefer society to operate.

What changes the world, among other things, is storytelling. Dr. Alice Evans keeps writing about the powerful role storytelling plays in growing gender equality.

My question is, if charismatic television can inspire reality, why can’t smut?

I think it’s even cooler, all else equal, for two opposite sex, cisgendered people to demonstrate slightly kinky, gender-bending sex than to merely have it.

I would love to be able to treat OnlyFans as a fun art project and pay no attention to how much money it made me. I think it’s kinda fucked up that a bad month on OnlyFans is a good month on Substack. I think my work on Substack is more valuable than my work on OnlyFans. The market, however, appears to disagree.

So, while I wait for capitalism to figure out how to reward intellectual greatness, I’ll keep profiting off being hot enough for a couple hundred people to pay a very reasonable fee to support and also masturbate to.