A debate about the site Onlyfans has flared up recently and it has been criticized for being oppressive to women. Onlyfans creator and mother of young children Mirka Norrström lives on Onlyfans, she believes that this is a way for her to own her body as a woman and explore her sexuality.
The debate flared up after the author and debater Linda Skugge published undressed pictures of herself on Onlyfans and wrote about it on Expressen’s culture page. Among other things, she has written that the site has saved her life as she can afford her home and lifestyle. Since then, it has been hotly debated whether Onlyfans is a feminist statement or female oppression.
Mirka Nordström is an Onlyfan creator and tells After Five that she earns a good monthly salary by posting pictures on the site – pictures of herself in sexy underwear and naked. She doesn’t see any major problems with the site.
– Most people who do it do it of their own free will and I think that as a woman you should be allowed to do what you want with your body, she says.
Mirka says that her boundaries have gradually shifted after starting Onlyfans, from only posting pictures in underwear to showing herself without clothes. For her, the occupation began as a way to explore her sexuality after a long marriage.
– After my divorce, I began a sexual search. When you have been married for 23 years, I have tried to find myself and my own sexuality, she says.
“It’s going downhill fast”
Simon Häggström is a police inspector in the prostitution group at the Norrmalm police and he warns that the site can be a gateway to prostitution and that young girls are particularly vulnerable.
– We see that it goes downhill very quickly in the form of mental illness, there are depressions, there are anxiety attacks, there are suicidal thoughts, he says.
The police inspector believes that Onlyfans is not about feminism or female liberation, but quite the opposite.
– You have to ask yourself the question: who is dictating the conditions – and I would like to say that it is the men, says Simon Häggström.