Staying safe when selling your content online

Selling your porn content online can be a great way to make money and satisfy your kinks and fetishes. It’s super easy to get started selling online porn but you need to consider you online safety as a sex worker.

Working with sites like SinParty do offer you a valuable layer of protection, but you still need to be savvy. There are people with bad intentions – and not the good kind of bad intentions – so you need to know how to stay safe online.

Here, we’re going to go through our top nine tips to help you stay safe online, covering things like:

• How to deal with money
• Protecting your location
• Keeping your real life separate
• Setting boundaries

And lots more so you can be safe when selling porn online.

1.     If it’s too good to be true, it probably is

You’ve heard it before and we’re saying it again

If it’s too good to be true, it probably is

Sex work can be lucrative for sure, but you also need to be skeptical. Look at the offer you’re getting and whether it seems likely that someone would pay the money for what they want. $5k for some feet pics or $100 to reply to a message screams scam.

On the flip side, findom or financial domination is a real thing so you can get a lot of money for not a lot, but you generally need to build a relationship with the client first. Anything that comes out of the air is probably dodgy.

2.     Don’t pay someone to pay you

A super common scam that online sex workers get is a “sugar daddy” asking you to pay him so he can pay you.

It goes something like this:

• He approaches you on social media – too cheap to pay for a subscription usually
• He tells you he wants to spoil you and give you a nice monthly income
• When you’re interested, he then says his secretary needs to add you to his company paywall
• To do that, you need to send him $35, $50, $100 or whatever

There are so many red flags here, we don’t have the space to break them down!

Basically, you should never pay someone so they can send you money. Another variation on this is when a scammer sends you “too much money” and asks you to send it back, then they claim a full refund from their bank and you’re down the difference.

3.     Take payment up front

Everyone likes to get something for nothing and your fans and subscribers are no different.

When you’re being asked to do work, such as phone calls, sexting sessions, or creating custom content, you should always take payment first.

When you use SinParty, we make the process of custom content super easy. Your fan sends the request and you get a message in your inbox. You can choose to…

• Accept
• Negotiate
• Reject

… and go from there.

When you do a deal with your fan, we take payment and hold it while you make the custom content. Once you deliver the video, we will release the payment to you – meaning you and your buyer both get some protection in the process.

4.     Keep payments secure

If you choose to take payments outside of a platform like SinParty, you need to be smart about where and how.

Lots of payment platforms aren’t friendly to sex workers – if a buyer tags a payment to be about sex in some way, your account could get flagged and closed down.

You need to create new accounts on payment platforms that don’t link to your real name. For example, PayPal – which is notoriously negative about sex workers – uses your email address to find you so you need to create an account with an email that hides your real name,

5.     Be aware of your Amazon wishlist

Lots of creators choose to have an Amazon wishlist that their fans can buy them treats from. You can list sex toys, lingerie, and other goodies for your content, or simply get new stuff to make you happy.

Be aware that when someone buys for you, they automatically get to see your name and home city. This can be too much information for some people so take care with this payment method.

If you’re unsure what a buyer would see, test it out with a friend buying you something small so you can see exactly what your fan would on their side.

6.     Make separate accounts

Your name and your location can be super sensitive information that you don’t want people to know when you make porn online.

You should have separate accounts from your real-life social media. This puts a small ring of protection around you and also makes it easier for you to leave porn creation at some point since your personal account was never used for promos.

It also means you can post about your friends and family on one account and show your nasty side on your work socials.

7.     Set boundaries

This is your work and you make the rules. It’s important for your online safety that you set boundaries for your fans and stick with them.

These boundaries can be things like:

• How long it can take to reply to a message
• The hours that you’re available to reply to messages
• The type of content you will and won’t make
• How long a custom request will take to deliver

You can make these clear in your bio on SinParty, on your tips menu, and when you send welcome messages to your new subscribers.

8.     Know your rights

You don’t have to accept your content being stolen or leaked. Most countries in the world have laws about revenge porn or people distributing your content without permission.

You can request websites take down content that they don’t have permission to share through a DCMA request. If you find your SinParty content has been leaked, you can contact us and we try and guide you to services who can help.

You also have rights about online harassment. You can report people who make threats to your local police.

9.     Watermark your content

Make sure you add your watermark to all your videos and images so even if it does get leaked, people will know where to go to get the real goods. A leaked video from a camgirl site is how SinParty creator Cherry Adams got her break into making online porn.