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News24
16-07-2025
- News24
‘There won't be remorse': WhatsApp, Instagram child sex accounts boast of alleged suicides
Some Instagram and WhatsApp accounts sharing explicit content of South African schoolchildren remain active, with their creator mocking alleged teen suicides linked to the posts, despite a court order for Meta to shut them down. Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp Be among those who shape the future with knowledge. Uncover exclusive stories that captivate your mind and heart with our FREE 14-day subscription trial. Dive into a world of inspiration, learning, and empowerment. You can only trial once. Show Comments ()
News.com.au
13-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
‘So proud': 21-year-old woman reveals how her parents invested in her X-rated career
A 21-year-old woman has revealed why she gives her parents a jaw-dropping $18,000 a month and how they invested in her X-rated career. Skylar Mae, 21, stopped studying to become a dental nurse and works full-time creating explicit content but what drives her is being able to help her parents. Ms Mae told that it feels 'amazing' to be making six-figures a month, not just because she can afford to buy a fancy car. Both her parents suffer from health issues and the money means she can always afford to foot any medical expenses that arise. 'My dad would work so hard for my family, even with all of his health issues, that it's nice seeing him take a few days off of work here and there,' she said. 'Truly what gets me out of bed everyday is knowing I'm taking care for them.' Ms Mae doesn't just cover the odd medical bill; she gives her parents a monthly allowance of $18,000. The 21-year-old argued it is the least she can do for her parents. 'My Dad is so proud that he even has my stage name tattooed on his arm. I just redid their bathroom for them and I love taking them on holidays,' she said. Ms Mae said her parents have always been supportive of her career choice, even though there's still a stigma attached to it. Her mum will even drive her to and from shoots and hang around in the local area to make sure she's okay. If she's booking a hotel for work, her parents also always check in and make sure she's all right and everything is ticking along smoothly. When her Dad found out about her doing OnlyFans she said he was immediately supportive and even her Grandma is fine with it. 'He and my mum even agreed to invest in my account by buying my lingerie,' she said. 'Once my grandma heard about what I was doing, she wanted to be part of the success too and ordered me this cute rhinestone lingerie set from Amazon.' The 21-year-old admitted that her parents are even up on the lingo when it comes to OnlyFans, but that doesn't mean she wants to discuss it. 'They'll call me and they'll be like, oh, like, 'what kind of content did you do today? How many customs did you do today? They know it all, the language, everything.' Despite her parents being so accepting of her X-rated work, Ms Mae said that there's 'definitely a line' and she doesn't share everything with them. 'I guess maybe I'm a little bit more reserved than them,' she said.
News.com.au
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Unfair': Lucy Banks reveals moment her son was told she did OnlyFans
A former OnlyFans star has shared the stomach-dropping moment her young son discovered her controversial career. Lucy Banks, 34, began creating explicit OnlyFans content in 2019, after she was newly divorced and seeking financial stability. She had a background in banking, but she wanted to find work where she wouldn't have to send her children to daycare every day. Speaking to Andrew Bucklow on podcast From The Newsroom, Ms Banks explained what prompted her to start creating X-rated content. 'They were in daycare a lot. I had a moment one evening when one of my sons said to me, They're like, 'Do we have to go to daycare tomorrow?'' she said. 'It just broke me.' Ms Banks explained that she made sure her face was hidden when she initially started creating explicit content, but as her following grew, so did her confidence. 'I became more and more comfortable, my content became more and more explicit, but it was at a pace that I was comfortable to do it,' she said. 'I was like, look, I know I can charge more if I make this content, so that's what I'm going to do.' At the height of her OnlyFans career she was working 12-hour days but, even then, she was still able to balance work and time with her family. 'I'm happy to work hard. I just have to do it around the kids because that's my priority,' she said. She was also earning a lot of money, making between $1 million and $1.5 million over four years. The downside to OnlyFans was that, as much as Ms Banks tried to shield her children from it, her eldest son, who was around 11 at the time, found out. 'Somebody told him. I was so careful to make sure that they were shielded from everything.' she said. 'It wasn't fair that somebody else told him, but he was so cool about it. I had a conversation with him and he's like, 'it's fine'. People do worse things for money,' she said. 'Then he started trying to talk to me about, he's like, 'Okay, so how, how much do you charge for your subscribers? Because if we increase your subscription price …'. I was like, 'Mate, no, I'm not having this conversation with you'.' Ms Banks eventually ended up quitting OnlyFans because it got to a point where she just wasn't enjoying it anymore. 'I was at a new stage of my life and I just found myself resenting it and dreading making content,' she explained. 'I'm recognising that this isn't fun for me anymore, so it's time to stop.' The 34-year-old said it was a tough decision because essentially she was in 'golden handcuffs' as she had become accustomed to making a lot of money. 'I've got property and mortgages that I have to keep servicing. So it was a hard decision, but it was the right one to make. And, honestly, I haven't regretted it,' she said. Ms Banks pivoted, though, identifying a gap in the market and creating Million Billion Media, a marketing agency for OnlyFans creators. 'I never had, you know, a million followers on Instagram or anything like that, but at that time, I was the only OnlyFans creator that was leveraging the media and the news to get my name out there,' she said. The young mum wanted to help other OnlyFans creators do the same and build their brands. 'OnlyFans creators are quite similar to athletes really. It's like you've got this window where you've got a lot of eyes on you and you're making a lot of money,' Ms Banks said. 'How are we going to set you up so that four or five years can help you for the next 10 to 20 years and build on that attention that you've got.'
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rules for explicit books in Alberta schools on the way: education minister
Alberta Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides expects to have a ministerial order ready by the end of the month or early July, giving school boards broad guidelines for graphic and sexual materials in school libraries. The parameters would still leave room for independence, so schools and school divisions can manage their libraries in ways that work for them, Nicolaides told CBC News Thursday. But the goal is to ensure explicit content is inaccessible to elementary school students. "There's consensus and understanding that some material, that we should be cautious of what age it's available," Nicolaides said. "We do this in society in so many different ways that we have ratings for movies … based on sexual content, violence, all this other kind of stuff. So it's not an entirely foreign concept to how we govern our society." The minister spoke with CBC News about two weeks after a public online survey about school library materials closed. It was offered by the provincial government. The survey results, which were released Friday, suggest respondents were divided on multiple questions, including whether the government should set "consistent requirements" for school boards regarding how they select and manage school library materials. Respondents who identified as educators, librarians and as an "interested Albertan" are firmly against, data suggests. Parents, either with or without school-aged children, were more divided. Of the nearly 37,000 survey respondents identified as parents of K-12 students, almost half are cold to potential consistent requirements, data suggests. But 43 per cent are leaning in favour, and eight per cent are unsure. "Decisions about what goes in libraries need to be made by trained librarians and educators," said Laura Winton, past president of the Library Association of Alberta, a non-profit that advocates for public and school libraries alike. "There are already policies and practices in place in schools and school boards across Alberta to make sure that collections are age-appropriate, and there are also processes in place to allow parents to be involved," Winton said. "If they are concerned about material, they can request that their school reconsider that material and a dialogue will be engaged with them about that." Respondents were also divided about what age students should be able to access sexually explicit materials in school libraries, data suggests. Parents of school-aged children said students should be able to access such content at school libraries at some point, particularly by middle school or high school, results suggest. Yet, about two in five of the respondents with school-aged children feel students should never get to access it in school libraries. "That's an overwhelming consensus from parents to keep it out of elementary schools," said Jeff Park, executive director of the Alberta Parents' Union, an advocacy group. "That's a strong basis to at least start there." Nicolaides said last month that new rules would be coming, after parents raised concerns about four coming-of-age graphic novels, most of which show nudity and sexual 2SLGBTQ+ content, found in circulation in Edmonton and Calgary public schools. The minister also said at the time that the government isn't looking to ban books from schools, noting that it doesn't have that authority. He reiterated that while speaking with CBC News Thursday. "I don't think it's really helpful or beneficial for government to start saying, 'This book, this book, this book, this book,' just because of any particular commentary that an individual government official might find offensive to them personally," Nicolaides said. "What one person finds offensive, another person might find enriching. But again, I think we can agree on some really high-level parameters, which are very simple: don't show graphic sexual material to underage children." The Alberta government will use input from the survey, plus feedback from education partners, to develop the school library standards, according to a news release issued Friday afternoon. The government published two sets of survey results: one raw, the other cleaned up. The raw version contains nearly 197,000 responses, but the clean dataset cuts it down to about 77,000 responses. There were signs of possible abuse, Nicolaides said, such as bots or many responses coming from one IP address in a short period. A CBC News analysis found that, of the many exclusions, only 1,000 of the respondents who identified as parents with school-aged children were cut. Most of the exclusions affected responses from alleged school administrators, teachers and librarians. The survey suggests further division around questions like how libraries should handle such materials, and who the authority is that determines what content is age-appropriate. About seven in 10 respondents with school-aged kids agree that parents and guardians should have a role in reporting or challenging the availability of sexually explicit material in school libraries, the results respondents who identified as educators agreed as well. About half of school or public librarians agreed, data suggests. But respondents were divided about who gets to decide what's age-appropriate, with the main responses being librarians, teachers and/or parents. Many felt there should be some kind of restrictions for explicit content, data suggests. But nearly an equal proportion of parents with school-aged children said they want access granted based on age or grade level (35 per cent), as those who said the materials shouldn't be on the shelves at all (36 per cent).
CTV News
20-06-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Survey shows most Albertans don't want province setting standards for school library books, province going ahead
Seen here in an Edmonton secondary school library, is one of four graphic novels Government of Alberta officials cited as examples of explicit and age inappropriate material that prompted new province-wide content guidelines. (Brett McKay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) Survey results from the Alberta government show the majority of respondents don't support the province setting standards for school library books. The survey ran between May 26 and June 6 and asked respondents multiple questions on 'sexually explicit content' in school libraries, though no definition was given as to what that included. It was opened by the United Conservative Party in May after the education minister announced plans for new rules around school books. The survey gathered 77,395 unique responses, with an additional 515 responses received on the French Language survey. Nearly half of respondents were guardians of school-aged children. The results show support for provincial standards for school library materials was highest among this group. However, while 44 per cent of that category was very or somewhat supportive, 49 per cent were not at all or not very supportive. Library book survey A screenshot of survey results from a survey by the Alberta government on age-appropriate library materials in schools. (Government of Alberta) Sixty-one per cent of all respondents said they have never been concerned about a school library book being inappropriate due to sexually explicit content, while 62 per cent agreed that parents and guardians should play a role in reporting or challenging sexually explicit content. Opinions on who should decide what materials are age-appropriate were more evenly divided: 23 per cent said school librarians, 20 per cent said teachers and 19 per cent said parents. Library book survey A screenshot of survey results from a survey by the Alberta government on age-appropriate library materials in schools. (Government of Alberta) When asked at what age children should be able to access sexually explicit content, half of respondents said either middle school (22 per cent) or high school (23 per cent). Thirty-four per cent said never, including 42 per cent of parents, and 17 per cent said all ages. Most respondents were also supportive of school libraries handling explicit materials by restricting by grade (41 per cent), requiring parental permission (12 per cent) or keeping it available to all students (17 per cent). The other 30 per cent said it should be removed entirely. Library book ban Alberta A screenshot of survey results from a Government of Alberta survey on appropriate library materials for schools. (The Government of Alberta) On Friday, the province said the survey results showed 'strong support' for a school library policy and it would be using them, and feedback from education partners, to develop province-wide standards. 'Parents, educators and Albertans in general want action to ensure children don't have access to age-inappropriate materials in school libraries,' said Demetrios Nicolaides, minister of education and childcare. 'We will use this valuable input to guide the creation of a provincewide standard to ensure the policy reflects the priorities and values of Albertans.' CTV News Edmonton has reached out to the education minister for more information and is awaiting a response. The full survey results can be found here.
