Like many performers that spoke with Men’s Health, Kennedy spends hours each day preparing and shooting content.
Most of those performers charge upwards of $5 for a month’s subscription-the maximum a creator can charge is $50 a month-plus extra for personalized photos and videos. There are chefs who share cooking videos and fitness instructors who lead workout classes, but the site has primarily become known for the porn stars who have amassed giant followings. OnlyFans, which launched in 2016, allows users to post original content and sell it to people who want to see it. The sudden relevance of the platform has made one thing clear: The porn industry has changed once again, and it’s probably never going to look the same as it did before COVID-19. The site is the latest shift in the adult industry, and Kennedy is among the legions of porn stars and social media influencers who are using it to sell sexy homemade content during the pandemic. Or maybe she’s a porn star in a new kind of porn: one led by a social media website called OnlyFans. That's because Kennedy is a new kind of porn star. 'This is the longest I've gone without having sex in probably my adult life,' she says. Kate Kennedy is a working performer in the adult entertainment industry, but she hasn’t had sex in months.
