Is There A Market For Financial Counseling & Financial Therapy Aimed At Sex Workers?
Happy New Year!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been resting and reflecting on how I want to approach the New Year.
Now, almost two full weeks into the year I’m starting to get my stride with balancing my priorities between 1:1 coaching, B2B speaking/consulting, and writing.
During this reflection period one of the conversations that’s come up multiple times is the rise in popularity around the creator economy—and by creator economy I mean making money specifically on Onlyfans.
It’s a common joke among my millennial friends when we feel financial pressure to say something along the lines of “I’m about to create an Onlyfans account”.
Typically there is an awkward laugh to gauge how accepting the other is of this choice because while we know that sex sells there is the common belief that in doing so you are in some way compromising your dignity.
Sex Work vs Content Creation
The abundant access to pornography today is not something millennials grew up with. Gen-Z and later however, not only have access to porn with the click of a button but also the tools and technology to produce, promote, and monetize it. But is creating sexual content the same thing as sex work? Well, it depends on who you ask.
Many sex workers enter the line of work out of survival. That means that on one end of the sex work spectrum, some people actually trade sex for food or shelter.
On the other end of that spectrum however, some Onlyfans creators are netting 30k or more a month. Certainly there isn’t a need for survival in instances where you can make someone’s annual salary in a month—yet that is not the reality for everyone who falls under the sex work category. It appears as though the rules of the game on the taboo side of sex work closely resembles the rules we see on the blue collar worker side as well.
This makes a case for those who leverage the creator economy to monetize their encounters, their bodies, or simply the fantasy attached to those ideas for profit.
While some pornstars and sex content creators might be successful at monetizing through digital and social media channels, even they may not have the financial acumen to manage the influx in income that they undoubtedly won’t be able to live off of forever.
A Market For Financial Services
As I dig deeper into the world of financial trauma and different forms of financial therapy, I’ve noticed a greater appreciation for outwardly expressed financial empathy for marginalized communities. Through that lens I can also recognize that the conservative nature of financial services might very well sit at the intersection of oppression and shame for sex workers across the spectrum including those who make significant income from their work online.
One day I’ll explore offering services around financial therapy and financial counseling to the population of sex workers who are often left behind. Perhaps an equitable model includes charging for services consistent with income on a sliding scale, or taking the revenue generated from high income content creators and sex workers and subsidizing the work for those sex workers who are truly struggling to survive with all these have.
As I nail down my service offerings for financial counseling I want to share that I’m offering Power Coaching sessions for the month of January and February.
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