“With a G-string and a strobe light, he could make as much as $1,000 on a good night.”
No, that’s not a line from a bargain-bin paperback at an adult bookstore — it’s printed in the New York Times.
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As part of its report, the Times spoke with Matthew Camp, the go-go dancer turned OnlyFans entrepreneur who’s been doing very well for himself.
Via the Times:
If the four main quadrants of the gay approval matrix were daddy, twink, bear and boy next door, [Camp] seemed to sit smack in the center, not falling neatly into any of those categories but appealing to the potential audiences for each.
See, science can be fun.
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With his broad gay appeal, Camp quickly began receiving offers from adult film companies to appear in scenes.
“Having sex for money is appealing,” he said. But $1,000 seemed low for something that would sit on the internet and brand him for life as [and adult film star].
So he turned them down and instead used a PG-13 feed on Instagram to build a following of more than half a million. About a year ago, as the club scene continued its slow death, he moved to Hudson, N.Y., and signed up for OnlyFans.
Weeks often went by without him posting a single picture or video. He didn’t show a full penetrative sex clip for the first nine months, yet he still regularly took home more than $10,000 a month.
Camp wagers that his success with the platform comes down to a human desire for intimacy.
The irony, of course, is that the intimacy he and other OnlyFans models offer comes fully synthesized. Which isn’t very intimate at all.
“Tumblr was filled with the most extreme sexual experiences you could see,” he said. “And I think a lot of people were turned off by that. It’s not what they’re looking for. They want more intimate experiences. They want a boyfriend experience. They want to fantasize about someone that they want to have sex with and not feel disgusted by it.”
Have you used OnlyFans, either as a model or a subscriber? We want to hear from you below…
Wicked Dickie
I think he’s actually quite dreamy. He’s rugged looking, yet sensitive, funny, killer body, and the right amount of mystique. Then again, I’ve read on some IG pages that he’s a raging drug dealing party boy with nothing between his ears. So I assume he’s somewhere in between.
Daggerman
..it has to be said, he’s got a hot body, with the right amount of sexy hair formation. I would like his body against mine…though he may not…HA!
Catholicslutbox
$10k per month? really? He rarely releases anything of real interest. Odd that he can make so much but just standing in front of the camera for 10 seconds.
I can’t even begin to wonder how much money Austin wolf is getting form his aggressive exploitation of naive twinks.
Robothedestroyer
“Agressive exploitation of naive twinks” is my new favorite quote of the day ;D.
tdh1980
I mean…his OnlyFans content already has been uploaded to PornHub for free viewing, so…[shrug emoji here].
QueerTruth
Who needs homophobes when we have QUEERTY?
Once again, Queerty is romanticizing and advertising prostitution as if young gay men didn’t have enough problems.
Please stop!!!!
Nosso Crankee
Why the histrionics, Sister Shrill? Perhaps your habit is cinched a bit too tight?
The world’s oldest profession provides succor to those in need of man’s most basic human need – physical intimacy.
There is NO shame inherent in satiating those desires, nor is there in providing them.
“Queer Truth” ? You should consider changing your moniker to Self Loathing Hater. It suits you.
IWantAFullBeard
Shut up.
laidbackdude69
I wrote a long post that apparently Queerty didn’t want to post. But I actually have to agree about some things…
With Onlyfans and Justforfans, etc, fans are paying a membership fee. Nothing illegal about that. But with Chaturbate and cam4, usually you’re paying the model to perform specific sex acts. That is exactly the definition of prostitution. I could go on and on about the models I know that aren’t reporting all the income, are getting health insurance from the government for free, and other questionable things. But If I go on it’ll just give Queerty another reason to censor me.