Aella: Is Porn Too Pervasive?

The former OnlyFans star and outspoken libertarian defender of sex workers considers the acceleration of government crackdowns on online porn, the sexual revolution, and sex work.

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Aella: Is Porn Too Pervasive?

This is an audio version of The Reason Livestream, which takes place every Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern on Reason's YouTube channel.

On June 30, Pornhub—America's most-trafficked adult website—announced that it was blocking access in Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah. Why? Well, Pornhub was reacting to the passage of age-verification laws in those three states. Similar laws have passed in Louisiana, Texas, Montana, and Arkansas, leading Politico to declare that "A Simple Law Is Doing the Impossible. It's Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat." But the industry is fighting back and won a preliminary injunction against Texas' law.

Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe talked about these developments with Aella, a former OnlyFans star and outspoken libertarian defender of sex workers who leverages her sizable social media following to run sex polls and surveys, the results of which she analyzes and publishes on her blog Knowingless. In this conversation, they discuss Aella's sex surveys, delve into the psychological literature examining online porn consumption, unpack the privacy implications of age verification laws, and talk about a recent debate Aella attended hosted by The Free Press and FIRE about the effects of "the sexual revolution" on American society.

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[JesseAz]

Sorry to hear ENB got fired.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I'm not hip to the locker room gossip, what's the deal with that?

[JesseAz]

No idea. But she seems to be off the sex beat.

[Eeyore]

It is also possible she is just pursuing other opportunities - or spending time with family.

[mad.casual]

I’ve seen this as the writing on the wall for quite some time.

There’s a local DJ who’s been hosting for something like 30-40 yrs. and he’s had some 8 female co-hosts in that time. He pretty much laid out the same writing on the wall for one of the female co-hosts one time. ENB isn’t going to be KMW and she’s not going to be writing full-time for Reason forever. Eventually, her beard will make enough money that she can ditch the libertarian gig that she’s faking her way through or the kid(s) will get old enough that she can really go after whatever writing it is she really wants to do and she’ll stop just accepting a paycheck to suck libertarian Koch.

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[mad.casual]

Yeah, maybe better stated as "libertarians"/Koch.

[NOYB2]

It is also possible she is just pursuing other opportunities

Isn't she a little old for OnlyFans?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Her sandwiches sucked
Honestly who puts ketchup and brie on a lobster roll?

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD 2: Steampunk Boogaloo]

She should refocus her efforts on baking more pies.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

America's most-trafficked adult website

Are we not doing phrasing any more?

[JesseAz]

First 4 words makes a great Biopic name regarding Hunter.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe talked about these developments with Aella, a former OnlyFans star

Why former?

[JesseAz]

Guessing similar to Kat Von D giving up the occult and getting baptized.

[NOYB2]

After this little disclosure, men for some reason fantasized much less about her:

Adult star-turned-data scientist: I had more sex than showers in 2022 [...] Aella — who was OnlyFan’s top-grossing star with a $100,000 monthly income — said that she only showered 37 times throughout the entire year.

[Roberta]

She counted them over a year?! That's a ridiculous amount of self-awareness.

[JesseAz]

Wrong spot.

[Dillinger]

I mean are we doing phrasing anymore or not?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Next up:

Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook too pervasive?

[mad.casual]

Her Data Analysis reminds me of the latter part of the “Learn to code” meme: Uh, if this is how you do journalism, we’re good on coders.

AFAICT, the operating principle of her analysis is “Assume what people say on the web is true and reflective of reality. All of it, all the time.”

[Eeyore]

Facebook is the new next mySpace.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

I think it really is.

[Eeyore]

If they make sex a human right - like housing - and they pay for it - I would consider giving up porn.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

The hooker equivalent of public housing?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sure. You really want to be serviced by the staff at the DMV?

[NOYB2]

Why pay for it? Under socialism, the state can obviously redistribute without compensation. "Between you and me, we have one vagina, so you are obligated to share!"

[The Margrave of Azilia]

Even better, the government could guarantee free surgery so anyone without female sexual equipment can get it.

[JoeB]

Like diamonds, the natural versions are much more valuable than the synthetic variety.

[tracerv]

Reason has had more articles with this whore than they have had on Joe/Hunter scandals.

Fucking sad.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

It’s whores all the way down around here.

[Stuck in California]

Yeah, I'm guessing she didn't make her 100K at her onlyfans this month, so she paid Reason to do some advertising articles with her to boost her name recognition.

Don't get me wrong, she's great. Learned how to capitalize on shamelessness better than most, and really understands people. Million dollar whore, literally and figuratively. Smart and business savvy.

But I really don't need to hear about her twice a day, every fucking day, for a week.

[Johnathan Galt]

Someone at Reason is clearly a fan. Maybe a client. Oh, well. That's how media rolls these days.

[TGoodchild]

This rag is beyond pointless.

[soldiermedic76]

I'm pretty sure Reason is against Boycotts, at least boycotts of things like Budweiser and Target and Disney or Chinese products etc.

[Brandybuck]

Boycotts are voluntary. Reason is not against boycotts. Reason may think they are stupid, but people are free to be stupid. Also if you don't want to drink Budweiser, well that's a good thing because Budweiser is the crappiest of crap beers.

[CM4285]

I’m sorry….Does anyone really believe she has the intellectual capacity to parse through data using graduate level statistical analysis? She sounds like a high schooler- continuously saying “i just don’t think that’s true” when presented with factual data about porn usage. This was horrible.

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[Social Justice is neither]

Isn't this the whore writing about how great it is for 8 year olds to be in BDSM space, or at least that we shouldn't be working to keep them out? Sorry but not going to take seriously a proponent of child sexualization and general societal degeneracy.

[Brandybuck]

> "A Simple Law Is Doing the Impossible. It's Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat."

If you think people aren't watching porn in those states, on those platforms, you are very much mistaken.

Now I agree that children should no be watching porn. The problem is that you can't stop it. Verifying age online is a near impossible task, but politicians don't understand how the basic technology even works, so they think legislation magically makes it happen.

The solution starts with the parents. It always has. Government makes for a horrible nanny.

[Nominalis]

Over 1/3 of all internet transactions are now porn of some sort. Good luck to any politician who thinks that they can alter that fact and stay in office.

[LIBertrans]

Not a problem. The Alabama anschluss with ku-kluxers, nationalsocialists and girl-bulliers taking over the LP has eliminated the last non-Kleptocracy alternative left standing.

[freedomwriter]

Rules and regulation is how you suppress in a "free," "democracy."

[LIBertrans]

Totalitarian slavocracies call their enactments "rules and regulations."

[LIBertrans]

In 1873, when Republican Comstock laws banned "obscene" material and made writing about the rhythm method a chain-gang crime. "Ankles" were porn, and polite Christian National Socialist publications referred to a gal's legs as "limbs."

[LIBertrans]

Anything that blocks the Texas Legislature's girl-bullying Comstockery can't be all bad.

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[AT]

> outspoken libertarian defender of sex workers

Which ones? The champagne club of hedonists, or the desperate-turned-degraded, or the drugged and trafficked slaves?

[Religion and Politics, my life]

Only a sex-worker woman could be so clueless. What her prostitution is to her is NOT what it is to the men whose families are destroyed. And what kind of model is a father like that?

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[JoeB]

Obviously. Someone ffed her brains out.