The pandemic has been hard on us all and for some people it has cost them their livelihood or at least massively curtailed their ability to pay their bills.

One perhaps unexpected result of this economic hardship has been a boom for OnlyFans; a social media platform that allows people to sell explicit photos of themselves.

Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at The State Univeristy of New York and author of Camming Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry.