I Joined OnlyFans To Fight The Climate Crisis – And My DMs Went Wild

"It seemed absurd to think that a platform known for selling nudes could be home to climate messages, but it also seemed absurd to not try..."

Half of my OnlyFans inbox is men asking me if they can watch me orgasm (answer: not yet, but keep spending and we’ll see). The other half is men asking me why governments are so inept when it comes to acting on imminent climate threats.

Replying to all of these messages is time consuming. But it’s what I signed up for when I decided to join a platform known for porn to talk about the existential threats being faced by humanity; specifically, the climate crisis.

My decision to join OnlyFans feels, in some perverse way, like a hunger strike. If my body is the only thing extractive capitalism hasn’t yet taken from me, I will use it as a form of protest, for attention in a way I never anticipated when I first started working in climate communications.

My job as a narrative strategist involves understanding the stories people believe about climate change, and unfortunately many of those stories are incorrect. Even the stories about the stories are incorrect.

For example, people think that there are a huge number of people who don’t believe climate change is real, but that’s not true. Most people – 89% across 125 countries – want stronger climate action.

Climate change is a very particular comms challenge. It is something that most people in the world believe is an issue that we must prioritise solving, but that governments refuse to act on with the immediacy required.

It is a........

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