Given that celebrities like Lily Phillips and Bonnie Blue continue to cause controversy, the CEO of OnlyFans has defended the website as feminist.
The platform’s adult content, according to OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair, who previously served as a partner in a London-based law firm, is empowering and thinks it gives women more options.
Keily, an Irish technology executive, was born in Dublin and immigrated to England to pursue a law and political education at Oxford Brookes University. She obtained her legal training in 2007 and began her career as a cybersecurity and privacy expert.
Keily has long been open about the difficulties women face at work, including juggling careers and being a mother. She was the first recipient of the Inspirational Women in Law Awards in 2016.
“I am a feminist”, Blair told an audience at the women-led Trouble Club in August. My feminism contributes to the purpose of my position.
The mother of two reiterated the value of “choice” when appointed CEO in July 2023 and has made this a top priority in her running OnlyFans.
After taking over the position from Amrapali ‘ Ami ‘ Gan, Keily, who previously worked as the platform’s chief strategy and operations officer, issued the following statement: “‘ OnlyFans only succeeds when creators succeed. We make it our goal to become the preferred platform for a wide range of creators and fans all over the world.
I’ll put our creators at the center of all business decisions, giving them a welcoming, secure, and creative platform to connect with their fans and earn money from their content. ‘
In a recent interview, as per the Mail Online, Keily argued:” I fundamentally believe that people should be able to make choices about what they do. I think as a society, and particularly women, we’ve had a lot of people telling us what we can do, with our bodies, with our jobs, with our money, with our lives. I’ve no interest in that. “
Meanwhile, in an interview with Fortune, Keily, who has previously been turned down by a bank due to her connection with OnlyFans, expressed how safety was her top priority when it came to running the platform. She explained:” Everyone assumes it’s sexy content. Some of it is sexy content, and we’re very happy with that, we’re an inclusive platform, and we’re that way for a reason.
We think it’s crucial for adult content creators to have a safe place, be able to make money, and be able to do that alongside other content creators.
This comes as OnlyFans is subject to significant scrutiny for facilitating extreme content, including Lily Phillips’ most recent 100 men in a day stunt, which many believed highlighted the pressures creators now face making content with a shock factor.
The 23-year-old star will sleep with 1000 men in a single day this month, which was followed by the YouTube documentary I Slept With 100 Men in a Day.
When she described her motivations for the stunt, she said, “Guys are always going to sexualize me, so I might as well try to make a profit off of it.”
With fears over safeguarding, many are now calling for the platform to be banned altogether.
Another creator, Bonnie Blue, has also recently attracted controversy over her stunts, which primarily involve sleeping with “barely legal 18-year-olds”. On an episode of GK Barry’s Saving Grace podcast, 25-year-old Bonnie bragged of her love of “taking virginities”, declaring that some young students will queue up “for eight hours on end” in the hopes of bedding her.
However, some listeners dissayed by these boasts, believing that Bonnie’s behavior would have been viewed differently if the genders had been switched.
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