Two adult creators are making statements about what they claim is discriminatory treatment toward adult performers, specifically regarding banking.
The two creators on the OnlyFans platform, Lily Phillips and Alix Lynx, have claimed that their bank accounts were suddenly shut down, despite no allegations of fraud or other illegal activity. They have accused this type of treatment of being related to their jobs in the adult industry.
Phillips said that her business bank account got shut down “purely because they didn’t like my job.” As for Alix Lynx, she was informed that both her business and personal bank accounts at Chase Bank had been closed without explanation.
Both women argue that this situation isn’t specific to them, but rather reflects a wider issue of discrimination against performers in the legal industry.
As Lynx put it, she herself did not know what had happened until she heard the stories from other performers.
“One hundred thousand percent, yes. At first, I didn’t know why my accounts had been closed,” Lynx said. “But I was working in studios at the time, and when I started talking to other performers, I realized I wasn’t the only one it had happened to.”
She said she later shared her experience publicly and heard from many others.
“I put a post on Twitter about it, and so many other women replied saying, ‘They did the same thing to me,'” Lynx said. “That’s when I realized there was a pattern.”
Lynx said the bank never explained its decision in writing.
“From the beginning, everything was incredibly cryptic. I got an email saying they needed to close my accounts, but it didn’t explain why,” she said. “When I called them, they told me I’d receive a letter in the mail explaining everything. Then the letter arrived, and it was the exact same cryptic message. They never actually put a reason in writing.”
Lynx said the treatment amounts to discrimination against a lawful profession.
“At the end of the day, this is a real job. It’s a legal profession, and we’re running legitimate businesses,” she said. “If what we were doing was illegal, that would be a completely different conversation, but it’s not. To me, this is simply another form of discrimination, and it’s not OK.”
Phillips said she lost her business bank account in a similar way.
“There’s a lot of discrimination around the industry. I think it was last year or the year before I had my business bank account taken away from me,” Phillips said. “It wasn’t because of fraud or any illegal activity. It was purely because they didn’t like my job. Whether you morally agree or disagree with my job is kind of besides the point. What I do is completely legal.”
Phillips said the problem extends well beyond her own case.
“This isn’t just an issue that I’m having. This is something that the majority of creators are going through,” she said. “This isn’t the only time I’ve been discriminated against.”
