A few days ago, one of Poland\u2019s entertainment programmes hosted by a well-known media celebrity featured a \u201cstar\u201d of an erotic OnlyFans channel. The appearance quickly triggered a storm across the Polish internet, and the comments were overwhelmingly critical. Many argued that this kind of coverage helps normalize the objectification of women and treats emotion and intimacy as commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPresenting this in the language of \u2018entrepreneurship\u2019 is simply complicity in a culture that teaches girls and young women that their bodies are products, and that dignity can be converted into reach and bank transfers. When sexualization, loneliness, and emotional deficits become media \u2018content,\u2019 it is young people who pay the price, not celebrities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This is how Krystyna Romanowska\u2014a journalist and writer, the author of dozens of books and articles, including pieces on human relationships published in Holistic News<\/em>\u2014put it on her Facebook profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are not naming the guest or the programme, because we do not want to amplify a message that reduces a human being to the status of merchandise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They Pay for Closeness and Lose Far More<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Users in Poland spent more than 87,000,000 USD<\/strong> on OnlyFans over the last year, according to summaries of the Wrapped 2025 report. That represents a 19 percent<\/strong> year-on-year increase, placing Poland 6th in Europe<\/strong> and 12th worldwide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem is that this is not just about adult content. The platform sells the illusion of an intimate relationship. That illusion keeps users coming back, spending more, and finding it harder to disconnect. As addiction specialist Dr. Johnelle Smith argues in an analysis published by AddictionResource.net<\/a><\/em>, the mechanism can lead to financial problems, relationship crises, and worsening mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Descriptions like these\u2014of addiction to platforms that manufacture the illusion of closeness and emotion online\u2014appear regularly in expert commentary and specialist analysis. More and more often, researchers and commentators stress that the effects of using OnlyFans on mental and even physical health are serious, and that they affect both sides of the exchange. The consequences burden both the women providing these services and the men consuming them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research indexed in PubMed Central<\/em> has examined OnlyFans users as a distinct group, while broader commentary on subscriber behavior repeatedly links the platform to parasocial attachment, relationship strain, and emotional substitution rather than ordinary entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can a society that cares about human dignity use legal tools to limit the reach of a platform like this? And how would it do so? This is not really a question about sex, sexualization, or prying into personal freedom and choice. The deeper question concerns human dignity itself: are we, as a society, willing to accept a system that turns the most intimate sphere of life into a toxic business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Illusion of Online Intimacy Pulls People in Fast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Although OnlyFans was created for entirely different purposes, it is now widely known above all for sexually explicit content, and major reporting has long described the platform as one whose growth was driven primarily by pornographic creators. Creators may see the platform as a gold mine, many women as a seemingly easy source of income, and customers as a convenient way to satisfy desire. In reality, as experts have pointed out, it is an illusion of closeness in online form. It is an illusion because the platform exploits users\u2019 basic emotions, plays on them, and manipulates them through mechanisms that feel \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some men, it functions as a way of coping with loneliness, anxiety, or low self-esteem. But this is not a real human relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who Spends the Most, and Why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
According to research discussed in public-facing analyses of OnlyFans users, subscribers are disproportionately male, often married, and frequently motivated by something more than sexual novelty. Many are looking, above all, to mute loneliness<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A widely cited 2022 study found that OnlyFans users were predominantly white, married men, and later commentary built on that finding to argue that the stereotype of the isolated, single subscriber misses the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with Holistic News<\/em>, the psychologist Dr. Tomasz Witkowski points to another factor: anonymity, which allows the customer to avoid the consequences of having a secret exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOne may suppose that such interactions are not perceived by users themselves as actual betrayal of a partner, because they lack physical contact. It also seems that when a partner finds out about such activity, the consequences of that disclosure are probably less severe than in the case of a classic physical affair with another person.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Witkowski added this in his conversation with the portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OnlyFans and Mental Health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Research available through PubMed Central<\/em> has pointed to a negative relationship between OnlyFans use and several dimensions of intimate life. Use of the platform has been associated with lower sexual satisfaction and weaker communication in real relationship<\/strong>s. It also appears to increase the risk of infidelity. The loneliness, anxiety, and low self-esteem that users try to drown out often come back like a boomerang once the platform session ends.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Relationships Begin to Change<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
That happens because the illusion of online closeness vanishes the moment the paid time runs out. Yet the harshest effects of online erotic content are often borne by the women themselves\u2014the women who sell their bodies, their time, and sometimes their dignity while performing the oldest profession in a modern form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women Pay a High Price<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
For many of them, OnlyFans is a destructive platform. Women often face verbal abuse<\/a> from clients, demands they never agreed to, and constant pressure to keep subscribers engaged for as long as possible. The platform\u2019s internal logic works against them. They must remain permanently available, because regularity is rewarded. They also surrender a share of their earnings to the platform. OnlyFans\u2019 widely reported business model pays creators 80 percent and keeps 20 percent for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This form of prostitution may look modern, but it leads to problems women in the sex trade have faced for years: objectification, difficulty building trust, damaged relationships, trouble changing professions, and tension in family life. Even if they hide what they do for a long time, the risk of exposure never disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leaks of material, identity tracing, and the spread of content beyond the platform are no longer rare. More and more often, they bring real consequences outside the online world. That is why many of these women, after years of doing this work, struggle with serious psychological burdens and find it difficult to begin again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Dr. Magdalena Grzyb, a criminologist at Jagiellonian University, told<\/a> Holistic News<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe exploitation of these women\u2014through the pressure to create ever more extreme content or to do whatever these men demand so they will keep paying\u2014amounts to entering some form of slavery. It is worth adding that these girls often numb themselves with drugs in order to produce that harsh \u2018content.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Sweden Responds, Poland Still Hesitates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n