Adult content creator Alix Lynx is sending a message to Euphoria star Chloe Cherry after the actress claimed OnlyFans is not empowering.
“With the content I create, I get to be an artist. I have a vision, I bring it to life, and people are willing to pay me for it,” Lynx said in a Thursday, April 30, statement to Us Weekly. “I am getting paid to be myself and be creative, and I don’t think anything could be more empowering than that.”
Lynx’s comment comes after Cherry, who plays Faye on the hit HBO series, was asked whether she feels like the “norms are changing” surrounding the stigma of OnlyFans.
“I do think that it’s true,” Cherry told Refinery 29 on Thursday, April 23. “OnlyFans and sex work have become more normalized, but it’s literally only because of capitalism and the economy getting worse. It has nothing to do with empowerment or power or anything. What it actually 100 percent has to do with is just the fact that we live under capitalism and the economy is horrible. That’s why people are turning to it.”
Lynx, for her part, acknowledged in her statement that pursuing a path with adult content creation is not for everyone.
“You have to actually want to do it. You have to find it fun, exciting and empowering,” she said. “But if it resonates with you, it can give you a level of freedom and control that a lot of other jobs don’t.”
Lynx, who has spent more than a decade in the industry, explained that OnlyFans has helped build her confidence through the years.
“When I quit everything and got into webcaming, for the first time in my life, I felt a sense of inner peace,” she said. “I was doing exactly what I wanted to do, living my life the way I wanted to, and that gave me a massive amount of trust and confidence in myself.”
For Lynx, her career has been life-changing.
“OnlyFans especially has been life-changing. I have these same conversations with other women in the industry and we all feel it,” she said. “It was like, ‘Oh my God, I can stay home? I don’t have to come into an office? I can just sit here, talk to people, create content, and they pay me really well?’”
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