Porn NFTs: Web3 Prepares to Fully Support Sex Workers

Sex workers are using porn NFTs to take control of their content. Web3 provides full support

As an industry, porn has always helped develop and diffuse new tech, from the VCR to online payment systems to haptic feedback. Web3 continues that tradition and could prove capable of playing a role in providing greater economic independence and safety to sex workers. Sex Workers Are utilizing Porn NFTs to take control of their content.

Sex workers have to face hard conditions in their trade. Platforms take away a huge percentage of their earnings. Wide-spread, legalized institutional discrimination also interferes with their capability to earn a livelihood. therefore, sex workers have chosen Porn NFTs and crypto as safe, reliable form of payment. And while there is a remarkable learning curve involved, what they learn transfers well to non-fungible tokens. Through Porn NFTs, sex workers can trade their wares in the form of personalized videos, images, and physical objects. Sex worker-friendly projects have already proliferated, as we have soon seen. Proof of Peach, a new platform made on the Solana blockchain and marketed as a network built "by sex workers for sex workers," is one best example of this. Founded by Crass Kitty, a cam-girl-turned-tech-lover who has since worked at NEAR Protocol as a product manager and co-founded the successful Solana NFT project Degenerate Ape Academy, Proof of Peach focused to launch a more ethical and sophisticated model for adult entertainment.

The company model is innovative. "Proof of Peach" customers use their Phantom wallet to mint a "creator token" for free. This provides them access to a particular creator's page, where users can buy individual photos and videos at a price point marked by the sex workers. Its main aim is to create a porn-NFT economy, as each user's NFT collection will be different from theirs, even if they've collected NFTs from the same content creator. And while the company stresses it does not rely on royalties as a pillar of its business model, it does provide them to both fans and creators. If a fan resells their membership token (with all of its attached content NFTs), they get the bulk of that sale. The creator acquires 6.9 percent of that, and Proof of Peach gets 10 percent of the 6.9. Creators set the original price of the content NFTs they're selling, of which the platform takes a 10 percent cut.

Using Web3 in porn to break down sex stereotypes

The sex worker who spoke with nft now wishes that a healthy ecosystem of adult content thriving in the NFT space can help upgrade society's slow but steady progress toward normalizing sex work and even sex itself. "I think that sex workers aren't fully supported in Web2," the source said. "We face a lot of discrimination and it's hard for us to fit into the real world. But I feel like the more we show people that we're here and we're not bad people, the more we're accepted. We're not Satan. Everyone watches porn. Everyone has sex. it's not that weird."