OnlyFans 101: Addressing the Latest Threat to Online Safety (CHES/MCHES)

If you work with youth populations, students or victims, OnlyFans.com needs to be on your radar. The social media platform has exploded in popularity (90 million users and growing) over the past year - and yet is uniquely dangerous for content creators. The site is on pace to have more users than SnapChat in under 2 years - but with far greater safety risks. The risks of nonconsensual pornography, harassment, impersonation and cyberstalking are heightened on OnlyFans, and must become part of the broader online safety conversation. With students and young folx joining in droves, it's critical we understand the risks quickly before OnlyFans becomes mainstream. We see this as an opportunity to be ahead of the curve. This starts with raising awareness about the risks before unsuspecting young content creators join the site and helping those that do join to stay safe.

Sponsored by EndTAB, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credits available are 1.5.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to:

1) Describe 2 unique features of OnlyFans that are responsible for drawing users and creators, particularly young ones, to the site.

2) Identify 3 risk factors faced by content creators on OnlyFans.

3) Explain how OnlyFans mainstreams online sex work while obscuring the safety risks.

4) List 2 effective strategies to communicate about the risks of joining OnlyFans.


Instructor

Adam Dodge

Instructor

Adam Dodge, J.D., is a California Attorney, and founder of EndTAB, who specializes in the ways technology is misused to harm victims of gender-based violence, elder abuse, human trafficking and stalking. He co-authored The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Divorce and has contributed to features in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, GQ and others. Adam spends a great deal of his time delivering innovative technology-enabled abuse presentations to victim-serving organizations and government agencies around the world.