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News.com.au
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Unfair': Lucy Banks reveals moment her son was told she did OnlyFans
A former OnlyFans star has shared the stomach-dropping moment her young son discovered her controversial career. Lucy Banks, 34, began creating explicit OnlyFans content in 2019, after she was newly divorced and seeking financial stability. She had a background in banking, but she wanted to find work where she wouldn't have to send her children to daycare every day. Speaking to Andrew Bucklow on podcast From The Newsroom, Ms Banks explained what prompted her to start creating X-rated content. 'They were in daycare a lot. I had a moment one evening when one of my sons said to me, They're like, 'Do we have to go to daycare tomorrow?'' she said. 'It just broke me.' Ms Banks explained that she made sure her face was hidden when she initially started creating explicit content, but as her following grew, so did her confidence. 'I became more and more comfortable, my content became more and more explicit, but it was at a pace that I was comfortable to do it,' she said. 'I was like, look, I know I can charge more if I make this content, so that's what I'm going to do.' At the height of her OnlyFans career she was working 12-hour days but, even then, she was still able to balance work and time with her family. 'I'm happy to work hard. I just have to do it around the kids because that's my priority,' she said. She was also earning a lot of money, making between $1 million and $1.5 million over four years. The downside to OnlyFans was that, as much as Ms Banks tried to shield her children from it, her eldest son, who was around 11 at the time, found out. 'Somebody told him. I was so careful to make sure that they were shielded from everything.' she said. 'It wasn't fair that somebody else told him, but he was so cool about it. I had a conversation with him and he's like, 'it's fine'. People do worse things for money,' she said. 'Then he started trying to talk to me about, he's like, 'Okay, so how, how much do you charge for your subscribers? Because if we increase your subscription price …'. I was like, 'Mate, no, I'm not having this conversation with you'.' Ms Banks eventually ended up quitting OnlyFans because it got to a point where she just wasn't enjoying it anymore. 'I was at a new stage of my life and I just found myself resenting it and dreading making content,' she explained. 'I'm recognising that this isn't fun for me anymore, so it's time to stop.' The 34-year-old said it was a tough decision because essentially she was in 'golden handcuffs' as she had become accustomed to making a lot of money. 'I've got property and mortgages that I have to keep servicing. So it was a hard decision, but it was the right one to make. And, honestly, I haven't regretted it,' she said. Ms Banks pivoted, though, identifying a gap in the market and creating Million Billion Media, a marketing agency for OnlyFans creators. 'I never had, you know, a million followers on Instagram or anything like that, but at that time, I was the only OnlyFans creator that was leveraging the media and the news to get my name out there,' she said. The young mum wanted to help other OnlyFans creators do the same and build their brands. 'OnlyFans creators are quite similar to athletes really. It's like you've got this window where you've got a lot of eyes on you and you're making a lot of money,' Ms Banks said. 'How are we going to set you up so that four or five years can help you for the next 10 to 20 years and build on that attention that you've got.'
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rules for explicit books in Alberta schools on the way: education minister
Alberta Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides expects to have a ministerial order ready by the end of the month or early July, giving school boards broad guidelines for graphic and sexual materials in school libraries. The parameters would still leave room for independence, so schools and school divisions can manage their libraries in ways that work for them, Nicolaides told CBC News Thursday. But the goal is to ensure explicit content is inaccessible to elementary school students. "There's consensus and understanding that some material, that we should be cautious of what age it's available," Nicolaides said. "We do this in society in so many different ways that we have ratings for movies … based on sexual content, violence, all this other kind of stuff. So it's not an entirely foreign concept to how we govern our society." The minister spoke with CBC News about two weeks after a public online survey about school library materials closed. It was offered by the provincial government. The survey results, which were released Friday, suggest respondents were divided on multiple questions, including whether the government should set "consistent requirements" for school boards regarding how they select and manage school library materials. Respondents who identified as educators, librarians and as an "interested Albertan" are firmly against, data suggests. Parents, either with or without school-aged children, were more divided. Of the nearly 37,000 survey respondents identified as parents of K-12 students, almost half are cold to potential consistent requirements, data suggests. But 43 per cent are leaning in favour, and eight per cent are unsure. "Decisions about what goes in libraries need to be made by trained librarians and educators," said Laura Winton, past president of the Library Association of Alberta, a non-profit that advocates for public and school libraries alike. "There are already policies and practices in place in schools and school boards across Alberta to make sure that collections are age-appropriate, and there are also processes in place to allow parents to be involved," Winton said. "If they are concerned about material, they can request that their school reconsider that material and a dialogue will be engaged with them about that." Respondents were also divided about what age students should be able to access sexually explicit materials in school libraries, data suggests. Parents of school-aged children said students should be able to access such content at school libraries at some point, particularly by middle school or high school, results suggest. Yet, about two in five of the respondents with school-aged children feel students should never get to access it in school libraries. "That's an overwhelming consensus from parents to keep it out of elementary schools," said Jeff Park, executive director of the Alberta Parents' Union, an advocacy group. "That's a strong basis to at least start there." Nicolaides said last month that new rules would be coming, after parents raised concerns about four coming-of-age graphic novels, most of which show nudity and sexual 2SLGBTQ+ content, found in circulation in Edmonton and Calgary public schools. The minister also said at the time that the government isn't looking to ban books from schools, noting that it doesn't have that authority. He reiterated that while speaking with CBC News Thursday. "I don't think it's really helpful or beneficial for government to start saying, 'This book, this book, this book, this book,' just because of any particular commentary that an individual government official might find offensive to them personally," Nicolaides said. "What one person finds offensive, another person might find enriching. But again, I think we can agree on some really high-level parameters, which are very simple: don't show graphic sexual material to underage children." The Alberta government will use input from the survey, plus feedback from education partners, to develop the school library standards, according to a news release issued Friday afternoon. The government published two sets of survey results: one raw, the other cleaned up. The raw version contains nearly 197,000 responses, but the clean dataset cuts it down to about 77,000 responses. There were signs of possible abuse, Nicolaides said, such as bots or many responses coming from one IP address in a short period. A CBC News analysis found that, of the many exclusions, only 1,000 of the respondents who identified as parents with school-aged children were cut. Most of the exclusions affected responses from alleged school administrators, teachers and librarians. The survey suggests further division around questions like how libraries should handle such materials, and who the authority is that determines what content is age-appropriate. About seven in 10 respondents with school-aged kids agree that parents and guardians should have a role in reporting or challenging the availability of sexually explicit material in school libraries, the results respondents who identified as educators agreed as well. About half of school or public librarians agreed, data suggests. But respondents were divided about who gets to decide what's age-appropriate, with the main responses being librarians, teachers and/or parents. Many felt there should be some kind of restrictions for explicit content, data suggests. But nearly an equal proportion of parents with school-aged children said they want access granted based on age or grade level (35 per cent), as those who said the materials shouldn't be on the shelves at all (36 per cent).
CTV News
20-06-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Survey shows most Albertans don't want province setting standards for school library books, province going ahead
Seen here in an Edmonton secondary school library, is one of four graphic novels Government of Alberta officials cited as examples of explicit and age inappropriate material that prompted new province-wide content guidelines. (Brett McKay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) Survey results from the Alberta government show the majority of respondents don't support the province setting standards for school library books. The survey ran between May 26 and June 6 and asked respondents multiple questions on 'sexually explicit content' in school libraries, though no definition was given as to what that included. It was opened by the United Conservative Party in May after the education minister announced plans for new rules around school books. The survey gathered 77,395 unique responses, with an additional 515 responses received on the French Language survey. Nearly half of respondents were guardians of school-aged children. The results show support for provincial standards for school library materials was highest among this group. However, while 44 per cent of that category was very or somewhat supportive, 49 per cent were not at all or not very supportive. Library book survey A screenshot of survey results from a survey by the Alberta government on age-appropriate library materials in schools. (Government of Alberta) Sixty-one per cent of all respondents said they have never been concerned about a school library book being inappropriate due to sexually explicit content, while 62 per cent agreed that parents and guardians should play a role in reporting or challenging sexually explicit content. Opinions on who should decide what materials are age-appropriate were more evenly divided: 23 per cent said school librarians, 20 per cent said teachers and 19 per cent said parents. Library book survey A screenshot of survey results from a survey by the Alberta government on age-appropriate library materials in schools. (Government of Alberta) When asked at what age children should be able to access sexually explicit content, half of respondents said either middle school (22 per cent) or high school (23 per cent). Thirty-four per cent said never, including 42 per cent of parents, and 17 per cent said all ages. Most respondents were also supportive of school libraries handling explicit materials by restricting by grade (41 per cent), requiring parental permission (12 per cent) or keeping it available to all students (17 per cent). The other 30 per cent said it should be removed entirely. Library book ban Alberta A screenshot of survey results from a Government of Alberta survey on appropriate library materials for schools. (The Government of Alberta) On Friday, the province said the survey results showed 'strong support' for a school library policy and it would be using them, and feedback from education partners, to develop province-wide standards. 'Parents, educators and Albertans in general want action to ensure children don't have access to age-inappropriate materials in school libraries,' said Demetrios Nicolaides, minister of education and childcare. 'We will use this valuable input to guide the creation of a provincewide standard to ensure the policy reflects the priorities and values of Albertans.' CTV News Edmonton has reached out to the education minister for more information and is awaiting a response. The full survey results can be found here.
Daily Mail
09-06-2025
- Daily Mail
OnlyFans teacher faces being struck off after her account was unearthed by 'excited' schoolboys
SCHOOLBOYS were 'excitedly' viewing explicit images of their physics teacher after discovering her OnlyFans page, a disciplinary hearing has been told. Pupils at Glasgow 's Bannerman High School told their headteacher she would go 'ballistic' that Kirsty Buchan had signed up to the pornographic subscription site. The mother-of-one, who used the moniker of 'Jessica Jackrabbit x', now faces being struck off from the profession by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). Seonaidh Black, Bannerman High School's headteacher, yesterday told of her shock at being told about the explicit images being discovered by students in November 2022. One of her deputies approached her just minutes before the end of the school day to show her images of Ms Buchan 'posing in lingerie' and that 'she had been shown these photos by pupils in S5'. And the 56-year-old told the hearing it was the talk of the school gates that day. She said: 'I was approached by some S5 and S6 boys, who were very excited. 'They were saying things like, 'Have you heard the news'. I said something like 'I don't know what you're talking about' as I did not want to engage them in this kind of conversation. 'I was then told something like, 'If you haven't heard, when you do, you're going to go ballistic. Look out for Jessica Jackrabbit'. 'As I came back into the building, at least two staff stopped to ask me if I knew about Kirsty. It was obvious at this point that everyone knew what was going on.' Former physics teacher Kirsty Buchan posted explicit images of herself online Ms Buchan, who attended the high school as a student before eventually becoming a teacher there, was not present at the disciplinary hearing and did not send representation. Ms Black said yesterday Ms Buchan was a 'teacher who wanted to do a good job' but there was a 'small number of occasions where I felt she was not always clear on boundaries'. She told the panel: 'I do not want this to be wrongly construed, as this did not concern relationships with pupils or anything like that, but rather having poor judgement at times around things like her social media accounts being open where young people could perhaps access them. 'I had informal conversations with her about these concerns when they came up, but they were certainly not anything more than minor concerns.' Ms Buchan tendered her resignation from the school the same month the images emerged but her employment did not end until January 2023. The headteacher told how one of her deputies was told by a worried mother that 'her son had put messages on Kirsty's OnlyFans profile'. Since her profile was discovered Ms Buchan, now 34, has claimed to have made £60,000 in just one month by sharing the X-rated photographs. She said she joined the site as she needed the extra money following a drop in her income from the school. Although more than two years have passed since the page was discovered, the topic is still coming up at her old workplace. Ms Black told the hearing that pupils were accessing the account and added: 'There's still talk about it. Last week I had parents in school and they talked about OnlyFans. 'So it is something that just has now become, in some people in this community in their heads, associated with the school, is that we have a teacher that is on OnlyFans. 'And we don't, obviously, now, but it has just become synonymous.' The headteacher, who has worked at the school since 2001 and has been the head since October 2016, told the hearing: 'Young people need to have confidence in teachers and teaching, and this is the issue in my view. 'I do think it will be a long time before the situation involving Kirsty is a historical detail that is no longer talked about. 'As a result of everything that has happened, safeguarding and the welfare of our pupils was a real concern, and we have talked to pupils about their online safety.' Hannah Oakley, who investigated the case for GTCS, said that OnlyFans was a 'social media network which allows users to post content which subscribers can then pay to access' and that uploads are 'predominantly pornographic or sexually explicit in nature'. She said in August 2023, as part of the investigation, she accessed the public profile page beloning to Ms Buchan. Ms Oakley told GTCS presenting officer Gary Burton there was no requirement to sign up to OnlyFans and no requirement to pay to access the information. She added that she would consider the profile as pornographic and sexually explicit in nature. Ms Buchan is accused of setting up the OnlyFans page, in which she referred to being a teacher and said she was a 'good teacher gone bad ... really bad'. And in doing so, it is alleged, she failed to 'ensure that her profile picture and 'bio' could not be accessed by any member of the public, including those under 18 years of age, without the need for them to log in or register to the OnlyFans site'. She is also accused of talking part in a publicly accessible video interview with the press discussing it. Because of these allegations, she is also accused of 'lacking in integrity' because she 'failed to take steps to prevent herself being identifiable as a teacher and was aware that this risked bringing the teaching profession into disrepute'. Mr Burton invited the panel to find all allegations proven. They are now considering the case in private. The hearing continues.
CTV News
02-06-2025
- Health
- CTV News
RCMP warn parents of rise of online bullying, exploitation among youth in White Rock, B.C.
Police in White Rock, B.C., are urging parents to be cautious of their children's phone use amid an increase of explicit content sharing and bullying online. White Rock RCMP issued a statement Monday morning describing a noticed increase in 'negative behaviours' on the internet, particularly on apps that users believe can not be traced back to them, alongside a reminder that youth aged 12 and older can be charged with Criminal Code offences for online misconduct. This includes serious offences such as sharing intimate images of another youth without consent, online harassment, or making threats through digital platforms. Children and teenagers are advised to never share personal or explicit photos or videos, and to not talk to strangers online — even if they seem to be a child or teenager themselves. Any suspicious or uncomfortable behavior should be reported to a trusted adult, said the RCMP. 'If you wouldn't want your parent, teacher or coach to see what you are sending, it's probably not appropriate to send,' said Youth Relations Officer Const. Chantal Sears, in a news release. 'Social media apps such as Snapchat and Discord, and others, can be traced back to you even after what you have sent disappears or is deleted. It's important to treat your online life as you would your regular life.' As for parents, the RCMP recommended they work to gain a better understanding of what apps their child uses, who they are talking to online, and what content they are sharing. Boundaries should be set, with clear rules established for when screen time is allowed and where in the home devices can be used. 'I have yet to investigate a file where nude images were sent from the kitchen or family room. They have always been sent from the bedroom or bathroom with parents or guardians present inside the home,' said Sears. Conversations should be embarked on regarding online behavior and what content is appropriate, and parents should create a safe space for their child or children to report anything uncomfortable they experience online. The RCMP suggests enabling privacy settings on all devices. Sudden changes in behavior, secrecy about phone use, or receiving gifts or money can be 'red flags' that signal there may be issues online, Mounties said.
