Two men have been convicted in separate criminal cases this week for posting explicit content on OnlyFans without the full consent of the women involved. The convictions follow warnings from domestic violence charities regarding tech-facilitated abuse.
In the first case, Alexander Tang, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism. He uploaded 47 intimate images and four videos of a woman to OnlyFans without her consent and received payment for the material. Tang was given a 26-week suspended prison sentence on Wednesday.
In the second case, Dean Holmes, 43, was found guilty of rape on Thursday after a four-day trial. He had pleaded guilty to assault and controlling and coercive behaviour at the start of the trial on Monday. Bolton Crown Court heard that Holmes had coerced a woman to open an OnlyFans account to generate income, operating it from his phone and pressuring her to upload explicit content.
Women's Aid's 2026 annual report highlighted that a common new form of tech-facilitated abuse involved "young women being coerced to set up an OnlyFans account to generate income for their abusive partners." The Revenge Porn Helpline also reported cases of women coerced into creating content for OnlyFans and similar platforms.