The disturbing dark truth of the sex industry has been revealed as it sets about targeting women who have freshly turned 18.
Spicy Summer is a YouTube reality series that follows four OnlyFans workers as they try to make it big in the industry, attending XX Academy to help grow their platforms.
The show features Arabella Mia, who turned heads during a stunt in Bondi with Annie Knight, Gigi Linkss, who kissed King Charles on the cheek during his Australian visit, former stripper Maxine Kuerschner and Willow Ray.
Ray is also known as Charlie and, 24 hours after the first episode aired, her father, NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders, quit politics.
He said it had to do with several sick family members.
The second episode of the series centers around the 19-year-old from the country, who wears her heart on her sleeve.
It was announced in the episode the four women would be doing a photo shoot challenge and Ray revealed her “mood went down” and she was “scared”.
“I knew that we were going to be doing it in lingerie,” she said during a piece to camera.
“I think that scared me a lot because I compare myself. They all have really good bodies — they’re skinny and they all have really nice arse and boobs. I look at myself and think ‘I will never be as pretty as you’.”
Ray revealed on the show that she dropped out of school when she was 13 due to severe bullying that left her unable to get out of bed. All the nasty comments targeted her appearance.
That, coupled with seeing people who “looked nothing like her” on social media being praised for their appearance, left her with severe body confidence issues.
But, on OnlyFans, men compliment her. Something she’s never had in real life, she claimed. Every other woman jumped up to compete in the challenge and Ray was visibly distressed, having to leave the room.
Josh Fox, the man behind the reality series, immediately jumped up to comfort her. He said he started the series to explore how OnlyFans and sex work is sold as a dream — and it isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
After Ray’s breakdown, he confessed that he wished the 19-year-old quit the platform and his show on the spot and went home.
“But she wouldn’t and I knew that she wouldn’t because that is how ingrained that this concept that the sex industry is a dream now is,” he said.
“Young people are basically being brainwashed by algorithms to believe that. Social media is spoonfeeding that narrative to them every day — whether they want to see that content or not.
“Willow is the proof of that.”
He said one of the most uncomfortable things he has learnt about the sex industry is that people are counting down the days until they turn 18 so they can join these platforms.
He said current creators are encouraging that line of thinking. He added it meant that none of these people joining the industry had a chance to think about potential repercussions.
And, he’s not wrong. Every one of Ray’s co-stars on the show made a comment about her age.
“Honestly the issue is, is that the younger you are the more you will make because that’s what men want. Men always want the younger girl,” Kuerschner said.
Meanwhile Arabella said: “Nineteen is prime. You get to MILF at 23 in this industry so she’s got to get the confidence now to make the most that she possibly can and get that good business plan going. She has a lot to learn.”
A MILF is seen as an ‘older’ woman in pornography, who is meant to be a mom.
“The girls that are her age in America are making bank,” Gigi said, saying that Willow had so many opportunities because of that.
Rhys, one of the men behind XX Academy, pulled Ray aside to remind her of the “massive advantage” she had over the other women on the show.
Ray said she knows that people believe she is too young to be in this industry but, she said, at the end of the day she was legally an adult.
“This my prime time. Men love teenage content creators and they’re willing to pay lots of money for it.”
Fox called the entire thing “uncomfortable” and said questions should be directed at the men who have created this demand for “youth and innocence” in sex work — leading 18-year-olds to jump on the platform.
“We should be looking at them,” he said.
And it’s not just counting down the days until a literal child reaches legality in the eyes of the law. Arabella reveals she’s often asked to pose in schoolgirl outfits. Men even tell her “you remind me of my daughter”. The 27-year-old said she’s never acted younger than she is on the platform and that she’s always been proud of her age.
“But the idea that I’m saying no to that and the potential that they could be going out to act that out in real life — that kind of scares me a little bit,” she said.
Meanwhile Kuerschner revealed when she worked in a strip club a man once booked her for six hours. The entire time he kept telling her how beautiful she was and how much he wanted to engage in sexual activity with her.
“As I turn around to leave he went, ‘Actually, you know why I like you so much?’ And I was like ‘Oh why’ expecting him to say something nice about how I looked again or something like that,” she said.
“He looked at me and he said, ‘You look just like my daughter’. Mind you, I had asked him about his family. And he had a 16-year-old daughter. I felt sick when I heard that. I froze.”
The women said that they are often told men’s deepest and darkest secrets on the platform.
The idea that men fixate on youth isn’t surprising with celebrities such as Natalie Portman being subjected to a “countdown clock” to her 18th birthday.
“A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday, euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with. Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews,” Portman said at the 2018 Women’s March.
It’s been previously reported that 1.2 million American women between 18 and 24 are on OnlyFans.
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