The Correlation Between OnlyFans and a Porn and Sex Addiction

Since its inception in 2016, OnlyFans has revolutionized the market for creators designing exclusive, personalized content.  The flexibility and lucrativeness of the platform have led to a shift over the years, with OnlyFans consisting mostly of adult performers providing sexual content for a fee.  Today, with OnlyFans’ paid subscription models it is easy to access this sexually explicit content at any time from the convenience of your computer or tablet.  The widespread popularity of OnlyFans, ease of subscribing and paying your fees, and simplicity of accessing this content has made for a significant increase in porn and sex addiction.  The variety of content and offerings, with many adult subscriptions available, have further exacerbated this problem.

Exclusive and Personalized Content Offered by OnlyFans Increases the Risk of Addiction

With its subscription-based model, OnlyFans’ creators are tasked with creating personalized and exclusive content for subscribers.  The earning potential of the platform for content creators encourages them to push the limits, as they try to gain and keep more and more paid subscribers.  The result is a growing number of people engaging in OnlyFans subscriptions and finding themselves spending an exorbitant amount of time on the platform.  This level of engaging sexually explicit content, paired with the easy of availability, makes the chance of developing a porn or sex addiction much higher.

How OnlyFans Can Affect Your Relationships

Maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner can be a challenge when struggling with a porn or sex addiction.  The content that is seen on OnlyFans can create unrealistic expectations in your own partner.  This can make the other person uncomfortable, and unable to live up to these expectations.  The result is decreased intimacy in your partnership and communication barriers, as the affected partner turns even more to OnlyFans to satisfy these unrealistic sexual expectations.

Signs that You Have an OnlyFans Addiction and What to Do About It

Over time you may develop a tolerance to the content viewed on OnlyFans.  The result is the need to increase your subscriptions, spending more time and money on the platform, as you chase content that is even more extreme.  This is an indicator that your brain is seeking even more stimulation to achieve the dopamine release that you are craving and is a sure sign of an addiction.  Letting OnlyFans consume your thoughts all of the time and feeling frustrated or angry when something takes you away from time that could be sent on the site is another strong indicator that you have a problem.  When your relationships, from a partner to friends and family, are being replaced by those you are seeing on the screen, you likely have developed an addiction.

If you suspect that you have developed a porn or sex addiction from OnlyFans, a trained therapist that specializes in this type of addiction can help.  You can learn the tools to find other outlets for these energies, managing your expectations, and allowing you to develop and maintain deep and meaningful relationships in your everyday life.