Victoria Sinis thought she landed a dream career—using her incredible marketing skills for an agency on the porn site OnlyFans. But, after seeing the “strange fetish requests and pornographic content,” Sinis began questioning her career. Also, Laila Mickelwait has been on a quest for years to shut down Pornhub due to its content “depicting sexual abuse.” Both ladies are advocating change amidst their own personal transformation.
“After a radical encounter with Jesus, I left my previous role as a marketer and recruiter for an OnlyFans agency just five days later,” shared Sinis.
Ex-OnlyFans Recruiter Victoria Sinis Now Advocates for All Young Women to See Their ‘Intrinsic Value’ While Others Fight to Shut Down Pornhub
A friend invited Victoria Sinis to use her marketing skills for an agency on OnlyFans. Sinish recruited women to “sell their bodies on OnlyFans,” she told The Christian Post. While she didn’t fully understand the intent of the platform, she soon realized the degrading and damaging content the site shared.
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“And so for me, I was like, ‘OK, these girls that were doing OnlyFans came from poor backgrounds and, on the surface level, it seems like they’re happy. It seems like they’re making good money, so this must be something positive,'” Sinis explained. She told more of her story in a podcast from The Christian Post.
While some see OnlyFans as empowering, Sinis quickly recognized the disturbing requests of women. Once an account reaches a certain level, agencies hire contractors to pose as women to ensure the account continues to make a profit. And, an OnlyFans agency will scout out women on social media (typically those who have posted proactive images) to recruit her for OnlyFans. Each account is assessed a level, depicting what type of explicit content will be shared.
Further disturbing for Sinis, accounts could receive “custom requests” from subscribers to “make the girls do almost anything to sexually arouse them.”
“Soon enough, the video is not going to be enough,” Sinis said. “And they’re actually going to want to put someone in danger or hurt them because they now need to act out this fantasy because we’re feeding into these sick and twisted requests.”
Sinis spoke up at the agency, voicing her concerns about the content and how degrading it was to women. But, her co-workers assured her that the platform provided men and women a “safe place to do porn.”
Her struggle continued. She began to seek out positive work and volunteer programs outside of her fulltime job. Sinis was drawn to the church she attended as a child, that also had a program for refugees.
“I’ve always just had this thing in my heart,” she said. “I never denounced God. There was always that underlying sense ‘I knew that God was real. I knew that God existed.'”
Sinis attended a service, where Melinda Tankard Reist was speaking. Reist was a movement director for the anti-sexual exploitation group Collective Shout. Sinis teared up as Reist spoke about the effects of the “oversexualized culture.” After the service, Sinis introduced herself to Reist.
“Hi, my name is Victoria. I work for OnlyFans, and I hate myself,” said Sinis.
Reist graciously listened to Sinis and explained the reality of the porn industry and how destructive it is—for everyone. Within the week, Sinis had resigned from OnlyFans.
Sinis got a job at a local cafe. She regularly sought Jesus for direction and began speaking at schools, sharing her story. Reist was instrumental in coaching Sinis in this process.
She founded Creating Gems, an organization that helps young girls “understand their intrinsic value, to understand they are made for so much more than to be ‘hot’ or to aspire to be an OnlyFans girl.” (Genesis 1:26-27)
“Now, I’ve dedicated my life to fighting against the dangers of this over-sexualized culture and helping others share their extraordinary stories in meaningful ways,” said Sinis.
