“Do you want to play with me? You can do it only here. Enjoy all my exclusive content: here are the best porn movies”. Apollonia Lapiedra It has long separated itself from traditional adult film consumption platforms. We can say that he “hangs up his boots.” Or at least when it comes to working with major production companies.
now, The “Best Porn” can’t be found anywhere else but OnlyFansthe uncensored British platform that already moves over $7.2 billion and is already used by over 4.19 million creators. Among them is Apollonia.
Within the monthly subscription model, whose price ranges between 10 and 20 euros depending on the season, Which is considered Porn star Spain’s most popular now enjoys ‘comfort and independence’ This is something he did not rely on before his “retirement.”
“The porn recording business is tough. It’s going through the scenes, it’s a lot of time and you’re recording all day long. It has nothing to do with that, it’s more fun and lighter, plus, you earn more.” As he emphasized in his conversation with EL ESPAÑOL, “Before I could earn about 3,000 euros per scene, Now I earn less than 300k per year“.
Video calls, personalized content, sex as a couple or alone… Apollonia is the owner of her profile and its content, and she decides what she wants to do, where, when and how. “I no longer depend on directors or scripts, now I do what I want and what users ask me to do, as long as I’m willing to do it. And obviously I charge separately for this content.”
But like her, there are already many actresses who have decided to leave the porn industry to become their own managers on these platforms. Claudia Pavel, Giulia Rocca, Ginebra Bellucci… They are just some of the Spanish women who have followed this exodus towards the blue platform.
Apollonia Lapiedra.
In search of a Functional independence, better income, creative control, and less physical fatiguethe actresses led a whole flight of talent, leaving the Spanish porn industry “dead”. That’s how hard Antonio Marcos, president of the Association of Adult Audiovisual and Recording Producers and Publishers (APEOGA) puts it.
But this crisis in the sector is not only blamed on the arrival of the Internet, nor on platforms such as OnlyFans – which he describes as… “New pimps”– But to the “governments and authorities” that exercised iron control over them, and which “do not see themselves able to open the doors to the field” of this social network where “everything goes.”
A journey without return
“I won’t go back. I’m very comfortable the way I am.”. Apolonia is clear, the peace of mind and economic benefit you get with OnlyFans cannot be compared to what is found in the industry. Although he had nothing but kind words about it, he says this has been a trip of no return.
He admits that creating on-demand content makes him do “a lot of interesting things,” but he doesn’t care. “They ask me to get dressed and take pictures of my feet… but of course they pay for all that. As for the rest, I’m free to upload the content I want and feel like every week“She explains. Sometimes alone from her home, sometimes with an escort. That’s why she’s open about her return.
However, it is not very clear, Zinda Sexy, an “old school” porn actress. Or as she says, “old whores.” He has dedicated his life to erotic cinema for more than 15 years, but decided long ago to pursue his path outside the industry. He also started an OnlyFans account, which “was pretty cool at first,” he says.
“When you work with a production company, you set the price. On the other hand, On OnlyFans, you can upload the video you want and charge whatever you want. Plus, it’s all money for you.“Except for the percentage held by the platform,” he explains. However, he decided to say goodbye because he found a “better” vein out there.
“I now work on custom orders and videos for my clients. They are looking for me and I do what I see fit. Some want me disheveled and in a bun, others want me presentable, but of course they pay for all of that. “In the end I felt like I was losing money on OnlyFans because I’m uploading a video that everyone sees at a fixed price, but it’s better to make it private and charge the same amount to the 40 customers who want it,” he admits.
Although this is his main motivation now, he does not deny the industry or returning to it. He believes that “it’s always a good time to come back,” and that the fame that working with a great production company gives you “isn’t what OnlyFans or any other platform gives you.” Although, For now, it also remains the same.
The death of porn
Although actresses pride themselves on their freedom, Antonio Marcos, OnlyFans continues to follow the same pattern as the pimps before, who go “looking for people who need money.”. “Some girls are promised to earn 18,000 or 20,000 euros a week, but then they cannot even pay for electricity,” she says.
Which is that “not everyone on OnlyFans can be considered actresses,” and this is exactly what “distorts the profession.” “An actress needs preparation and training… and of course fame. In the past, actresses were stars, but Nobody knows these people.“, sentence. Therefore, How it works He leaves the nest “when you’re already known.”
In the same vein, Pauletta Papel, Filmmaker, screenwriter and curator of erotic films, who, without wanting to “demonize” OnlyFans, refers to the transformation of porn “into something less aesthetic than it was.” But, of course, there lies a greater evil in all this: An entire industry is declining.
For Markus, the industry is “dead”, and Babel asserts that “if before there were four films a day, now with luck there are two films a week.” “Many production companies had to close.”He continues, but despite this, he does not maintain a vision as pessimistic as that of the President of APEOGA, who asserts that the only way out he finds is to “leave Spain.”
Although they believe that the content itself will always be there, what is undeniable is that this is one of the most difficult crises they can remember. “There have been many breakthroughs in this field: first there was VHS, then DVD, and now the Internet.”“, admits Babel, who hopes that, as has been the case so far, “we can finally move forward.”
In this, the actresses also get wet. Realizing the damage caused by the new OnlyFans revolution, they believe that “there will always be girls who want to devote themselves to this.” “To do this, you have no choice but to start with a production company,” says Apollonia.
In the same way, Zenda sexy sees it as a “stepping stone” to fame because “if you start on OnlyFans first, you will fail, because this platform does not promote you, and in the beginning it does not even know you.” It seems that labels have turned into mere scouts for amateur artists, as Marcus puts it: “Porn as we have known it until now no longer exists.”