When Sophie Rain joined OnlyFans, the “paid subscription” service best known for homemade pornography, she claimed to be 18 years old. She would later admit to shaving two years off her age. After joining OnlyFans, in May 2023 she claims to have earned over $43m in 2024 from posing by swimming pools, suggestively sucking lollipops and flashing the occasional nipple.

Whatever the truth of her age, Rain’s brand depends on projecting an aura of adolescent exploration, continuously blurring the line between innocence and experience. As in a teen movie, you can watch her hanging out at the mall with young friends, browsing for lipsticks. In earlier incarnations, Rain’s marketing offered cruder versions of this pitch. “I may be a virgin, but I’m not that innocent as you might think… FULLY NUDE CONTENT AVAILABLE!!!”, reads an outdated Facebook page.

Now, like most OnlyFans creators, she offers a multi-tier model at different subscription rates. The more you pay, the more you get to see just how technical Sophie Rain’s virginity now is.

Leonid Radvinsky, who died this week at the age of 43, built an empire of $4.7bn by promising young women that they could be the next Sophie Rain – if only they removed enough clothes. Radvinsky started out at 17 by selling passwords to porn sites, five years before he founded a webcam business which featured women stripping off and masturbating. 

But this was just preamble to the enterprise........

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