He had already amassed tens of thousands of admirers on Instagram who responded more when he posted pictures of himself shirtless. “It’s not safe for sex workers to be on the streets. “The future is virtual,” said Lola Woo, a local OnlyFans creator who has advocated for workers in the industry. Proponents of OnlyFans say it provides sex workers with a less dangerous alternative to meeting clients in person by giving them the ability to post nude photos and videos of themselves having sex within the safety of their homes. What concerns the government is how sites like OnlyFans can potentially expose Singaporeans, particularly minors, to exploitation and abuse, said Josephine Teo, the nation’s minister for Communications and Information. This colliding of the digital age with old-world sensibilities has turned Low’s ordeal into a morality tale, as if HBO’s “Euphoria” had intersected with evangelical politics.īut that approach has grown more challenging in the digital age, with sex workers migrating to private chat groups to solicit business, and sites like OnlyFans, which the country has already said it will not ban because it’s impossible to block all objectionable material on the internet. “I’ve done nothing wrong,” said Low, who feels he has been singled out among the small band of Singaporean OnlyFans creators, possibly because he flaunted his success by posting clips on social media of his Lamborghini, luxury apartment and $6,500 labradoodle, Charlie.
But Low’s penchant for publicity brought him into the mainstream‘s consciousness, where he became a striking contrast to Singapore’s image as a bastion of conservative values and modesty. Muscled, bare-chested and generously tattooed, Low, who speaks in a whisper, is part of a Gen Z world of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube that communicates in memes out of sight of the establishment. His case has sparked conversations about social mores and the limitations of sexual expression in a country where sex between men is technically illegal. Out on bail, Low is facing up to 21 months in prison. He made headlines last year after he was ordered off the platform and arrested for violating strict obscenity laws by transmitting images and videos of his “private parts.” The 22-year-old bisexual man is Singapore’s most recognizable creator on OnlyFans, the online site known best for offering private porn to paying subscribers. Titus Low has stubbornly challenged one of this city-state’s enduring taboos: sex. His future in question, the man, an unabashed erotic exhibitionist, has attracted renown in a country where fame is usually reserved for government ministers and top badminton players. And when it comes to people who enjoy porn depicting threesomes, it could be because they like to envision the experience of maximum pleasure.The young man of wealth, tattoos and TikTok glamour rolled into the neighborhood in a Tiffany-blue Mercedes.
"That just has an erotic charge" for some people. "In classic cuckold porn, it's about being humiliated and losing power," Hammack explained. If you've ever daydreamed about what it's felt like to be dominated by your husband in bed and to let all of your power go, for example, who's to say your husband can't have a similar fantasy of being powerless, even if that manifests by watching two men?Īccording to Hammack, power play is a common turn-on and explains why the cuckold fantasy, or where a man watches his wife or partner have sex with another man, is a top porn category. "A big part of what turns people on is playing with power," and sex is inherently about power because it involves an exchange between two or more people. "Just because there's a same-sex person on the screen doesn't mean that's the turn-on," Phillip Hammack, a gender and sexual identity researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, told me.