The third (and last?) season of “Euphoria,” HBO’s crushingly bleak portrait of wayward youths in Southern California, sees its coterie of high school friends navigate the seventh circle of hell — which, in the eyes of its creator,Sam Levinson, means enteringthe world of sex work.
Rue (Zendaya) goes “Maria Full of Grace,” smuggling fentanyl from Mexico to America in her body and working as an assistant manager at a seedy strip club to work off her substantial debt to Laurie; Jules (Hunter Schafer) is raking in big bucks as a high-end sugar baby to a plastic surgeon who enjoys mummifying her in Saran wrap; Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) starts anOnlyFansto pay for the $50,000 in wedding flowers she apparently needs to marry Nate (Jacob Elordi); and Maddy (Alexa Demie) reluctantly becomes her ex-friend Cassie’s manager, intent on transforming her into the nextSophie Rain.Popular on VarietyRelated StoriesHit German Filmmaker Bora Dagtekin’s ‘The Perfect Holiday’ and ‘The Perfect Secret’ Boarded by Picture Tree Ahead of Cannes Market (EXCLUSIVE)Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion Readies for Seven Gala Screenings: ‘These Are Films Built to Travel’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Cassie’s OnlyFans journey begins with her making content posing as a dog, replete with dog ears, collar, leash, wrist cuffs, tail, and a satin corset from Sweeney’s lingerie line SYRN, bending over and lapping up water from a bowl on the ground. She further dresses up as a baby, spread eagle on the couch in a sheer pink shirt, her hair in pigtails and a rattle in her mouth. Cassie and Nate’s housekeeper, Juana (played by Minerva Garcia), has been tasked with snapping photos of Cassie in these revealing costumes for her OnlyFans (she deserves a serious raise).
The show’s depiction of OnlyFans models via Cassie has, however, rankled real-life OnlyFans creators, who already find themselves subject to enough mockery and scorn due to their line of work.
“There’s just a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it,” Sydney Leathers, an OnlyFans creator since 2017, tellsVariety. “There’s so much that they have her doing that is not evenallowedon OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time.”
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Maitland Ward, a top OnlyFans creator and adult actress who rakes in six figures a month on the platform — and, prior to her foray into sex work, starred on the sitcom “Boy Meets World” and the comedy film “White Chicks” — found the baby costume particularly damaging to the already-skewed perception of real-life workers on OnlyFans.
“In the climate we’re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money,” explains Ward. “And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, let’s make a joke of it. That is so funny. I’mnotlaughing.”
Levinson, for his part, explained Cassie’s OnlyFans arc thusly:
“[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it,” LevinsontoldThe Hollywood Reporter. “What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion — the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”
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