25 Aug Making Content While Traveling
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We never want to miss a good opportunity to make some exciting content in exotic or unusual places, and being a creator on vacation sets you up with some great possibilities. It can be tempting to go on a topless hike or to set up your cam gear on that beautiful rental balcony, but it could save you from some potential trouble by spending a moment looking up laws and customs about adult content in whichever land you’ve found yourself in. Some countries and territories have relaxed laws about pornography and public nudity, but others can be extremely strict, and you could risk being cracked down on.
“CREATORS ARRESTED ABROAD” ISN’T JUST CLICKBAIT
A quick search for “OnlyFans creator arrested” will bring up a slew of articles from publicity stunts to murders. In between those, you’ll find a shocking number of links leading to stories of creators being arrested abroad or in their home countries for violating laws ranging from obscenity to sex trafficking, purely for making content or even just announcing that certain content is going to be done. While you’ll almost certainly be able to do your business and enjoy your vacation, it’s better to be safe and informed than sorry in a holding cell.
Just to reiterate, in almost every instance, you should be able to enjoy your vacation and make whatever content you were planning to do before returning home safely. Using common sense and avoiding risky public stunts in crowded malls or playgrounds should keep you well under the radar of anyone who would care to notice. If you get caught using produce as sex toys in a local grocery store, however, you’re probably getting in trouble regardless of where you are.
WHERE MAKING CONTENT COULD COST YOU EVERYTHING
If you know that the country or region you’re traveling to is more conservative or regressive in its legal system or culture, you might want to reconsider making content or changing where you want to go. Regions like the Middle East and Southeast Asia are strict with their laws about obscenity and pornography, and some are extremely harsh with the punishments for them. For instance, Türkiye (Turkey) and Singapore have both had high profile instances of arresting creators for planning to sleep with one hundred men and transmitting obscene materials, respectively. There have been others arrested for live camming and shooting content as well, some of them for good reason, like filming in public, but others just for being consenting adults creating sexual content.
THE NORDIC MODEL: FRIENDLY ON THE SURFACE, RISKY BENEATH DEVICES
Even if you’re not heading to an obviously anti-porn area, you should still do your research on local laws and customs. For instance, Nordic countries are all egalitarian, sex positive, and don’t see general nudity as something inherently obscene. But the “Nordic Model” of laws concerning sex work is controversial, forcing sex workers to return to less safe means of running their business and putting them at higher risk of becoming victims of crime or violence. Essentially, the Nordic Model decriminalizes the selling of sexual services but criminalizes and punishes the purchasing or hosting those same sexual services in an attempt to outright dissolve the sex industry.
IT’S NOT JUST SEX WORK THEY’RE TARGETING
While the Nordic Model mostly focuses on prostitution and escorting, Sweden has recently adjusted their laws to include banning the purchase of custom-made content online as well. It’s not just the Nordic countries that adhere to these neo-abolitionist sex work laws; Canada, France, Ireland, and the US state of Maine all have similar laws on the books.
The moral of the story is that you should always take care to familiarize yourself with how sex work is treated in any part of the world that you plan to travel to. Being safe and using common sense will always work in your favor, so do a little research and maybe stick to filming in your hotel room.
Riley Cyriis is a New England-based indie content creator and mortician. She owns Cyriis Studios with her partner, Ryan Cyriis. She’s a cult survivor, a heavily-armed liberal, and the enemy of corruption and greed.
We never want to miss a good opportunity to make some exciting content in exotic or unusual places, and being a creator on vacation sets you up with some great possibilities. It can be tempting to go on a topless hike or to set up your cam gear on that beautiful rental balcony, but it could save you from some potential trouble by spending a moment looking up laws and customs about adult content in whichever land you’ve found yourself in. Some countries and territories have relaxed laws about pornography and public nudity, but others can be extremely strict, and you could risk being cracked down on.
“CREATORS ARRESTED ABROAD” ISN’T JUST CLICKBAIT
A quick search for “OnlyFans creator arrested” will bring up a slew of articles from publicity stunts to murders. In between those, you’ll find a shocking number of links leading to stories of creators being arrested abroad or in their home countries for violating laws ranging from obscenity to sex trafficking, purely for making content or even just announcing that certain content is going to be done. While you’ll almost certainly be able to do your business and enjoy your vacation, it’s better to be safe and informed than sorry in a holding cell.
Just to reiterate, in almost every instance, you should be able to enjoy your vacation and make whatever content you were planning to do before returning home safely. Using common sense and avoiding risky public stunts in crowded malls or playgrounds should keep you well under the radar of anyone who would care to notice. If you get caught using produce as sex toys in a local grocery store, however, you’re probably getting in trouble regardless of where you are.
WHERE MAKING CONTENT COULD COST YOU EVERYTHING
If you know that the country or region you’re traveling to is more conservative or regressive in its legal system or culture, you might want to reconsider making content or changing where you want to go. Regions like the Middle East and Southeast Asia are strict with their laws about obscenity and pornography, and some are extremely harsh with the punishments for them. For instance, Türkiye (Turkey) and Singapore have both had high profile instances of arresting creators for planning to sleep with one hundred men and transmitting obscene materials, respectively. There have been others arrested for live camming and shooting content as well, some of them for good reason, like filming in public, but others just for being consenting adults creating sexual content.
THE NORDIC MODEL: FRIENDLY ON THE SURFACE, RISKY BENEATH DEVICES
Even if you’re not heading to an obviously anti-porn area, you should still do your research on local laws and customs. For instance, Nordic countries are all egalitarian, sex positive, and don’t see general nudity as something inherently obscene. But the “Nordic Model” of laws concerning sex work is controversial, forcing sex workers to return to less safe means of running their business and putting them at higher risk of becoming victims of crime or violence. Essentially, the Nordic Model decriminalizes the selling of sexual services but criminalizes and punishes the purchasing or hosting those same sexual services in an attempt to outright dissolve the sex industry.
IT’S NOT JUST SEX WORK THEY’RE TARGETING
While the Nordic Model mostly focuses on prostitution and escorting, Sweden has recently adjusted their laws to include banning the purchase of custom-made content online as well. It’s not just the Nordic countries that adhere to these neo-abolitionist sex work laws; Canada, France, Ireland, and the US state of Maine all have similar laws on the books.
The moral of the story is that you should always take care to familiarize yourself with how sex work is treated in any part of the world that you plan to travel to. Being safe and using common sense will always work in your favor, so do a little research and maybe stick to filming in your hotel room.
Riley Cyriis is a New England-based indie content creator and mortician. She owns Cyriis Studios with her partner, Ryan Cyriis. She’s a cult survivor, a heavily-armed liberal, and the enemy of corruption and greed.
