Siri Dahl Says OnlyFans Bans Tags For Fisting and Pegging: “Some Exec At Mastercard Has a Fear of Things in His Butt”

Netflix’s Pornhub documentary, Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, isn’t filled with as many revealing moments as you might expect. That said, the film, which was directed by Suzanne Hillinger, does provide insight into how two 2018 laws, passed under former president Donald Trump, made life extremely difficult for sex workers providing legal, consenting pornography online.

The laws, The FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), essentially ended the legal protection previously enjoyed by online platforms from ramifications for hosting content that could be seen as promoting sex trafficking. But because the law fails to define the term “sex trafficking,” this has led platforms like Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, and even OnlyFans to ban and remove legal, consensual sexual content—including the content that makes up many online sex workers’ and social media influencers’ livelihood.

Porn performer Siri Dahl says in the film that, after FOSTA-SESTA was passed, she was “shadow-banned” on social media, meaning it’s now nearly impossible for fans to find her via her main Instagram account. “No one can find me by searching my name,” Dahl says. “If you search ‘Siri Dahl,’ I don’t come up. You have to physically know my entire username. […] So there’s no way for anyone who doesn’t already follow me on Instagram to ever discover my profile.”

Dahl added that if she’s posts a photo in a bikini, or even just a tank top, the post will be taken down. “Anything that a non-sex worker could post on Instagram, and it would be fine, if I post, it gets flagged as ‘soliciting.’ Even if I don’t put a caption on it.”

Dahl goes on to describe just how much influence financial institutions like MasterCard and Visa have had over the porn industry since FOSTA-SESTA was passed. Even sites that are explicitly for porn uploads, like OnlyFans, are heavily censored and come with long lists of banned words that performers aren’t allowed to use in video descriptions.

“Some of it is very queer-phobic, like ‘fisting.’ ‘Fisting’ is not allowed. I cannot put the word ‘fisting’ on OnlyFans. ‘Pegging’ is not allowed,” Dahl says. “It’s just because some executive at Mastercard has a fear of things in his butt?”

You gotta admit, MasterCard execs, she has a point! What’s so scary about fisting and pegging?

You can read Decider’s review of Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, and watch the full documentary streaming on Netflix now.