I seen several discussions on here pertaining to Onlyfans and cam girls in the form of being the provider or the one making the content. Does simply paying and viewing these types of porn create a possible issues with gaining or holding security clearance. Any advice would be appreciated thanks.
2 questions to consider; (rhetorical for here)
- was viewing it legal?
- if your viewing habits were made known to people, could you be blackmailed over it?
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Yes viewing it is legal
When considering blackmail I do not consider that to be an issue its not something that’s being hidden or if was to come out would be a huge cause for concern I feel like its not an uncommon habit these days.
Thanks I believe I’m in the clear
I am curious as to if it would come up in an investigation?
I am no expert on this matter but in my opinion, and what I have reviewed on the sf-86, there is no question relating to what you are stating because watching OF is a legal platform. Where is gets murky is if you have a FS polygraph or perhaps if someone who knew you and there was a BI for a TS/SCI or even a Secret level and they said you were addicted or met these cam girls for the purpose of sex, then you would be in a whole different position. But based off of just paying, watching and that is all that occurred, you’re totally fine. OF’s is just a virtual form of a strip club.
We recently had a couple incidents involving this at my workplace.
Basically, a group of individuals were doing OnlyFans on the side. One day, security took them all up to their building and told them that they had found out about what they were doing and that they had to shut down their OnlyFans accounts or not work there anymore.
So yes, you can absolutely lose your security clearance due to OnlyFans activity. Sexual behavior is one of the adjudicative guidelines.
Simply paying for and watching run-of-the-mill pornography does not cause someone to lose a clearance. I’ve never heard that before. There are usually other activities in additional to just watching. I’m guessing you don’t have the whole story. They were probably doing more than just watching porn. If they were a group, they may have been producing and selling their own porn content or perhaps been watching child or some other illegal form of porn.
This brings up questions in my mind…
Were the individuals doing it at work? (guessing not since you said " on the side")
Does the employer have a clause that requires individuals to disclaim other employment?
Does the employer have a “morality” clause in their employment contract?
There is a difference between being an OnlyFans content provider, and a content viewer. Sorta like I’m most likely not going to lose by job if I view legal pornography in the privacy of my own home vs I’m posting pornographic material (or risqué material) on the internet and profiting from it.
Not working there any more does not necessitate losing one’s clearance. These are two different processes. The employer determines if one keeps one’s job. The government determines if one keeps one’s clearance. I realize this may be viewed as splitting hairs.
Raises some interesting questions, no doubt.
Simply paying for and watching run-of-the-mill pornography does not cause someone to lose a clearance.
No, but producing it is a very different story (which is what they were doing).
Does the employer have a clause that requires individuals to disclaim other employment?
Does the employer have a “morality” clause in their employment contract?
No. If that was the case, they’d be seeing HR, not security.
There is a difference between being an OnlyFans content provider, and a content viewer. Sorta like I’m most likely not going to lose by job if I view legal pornography in the privacy of my own home vs I’m posting pornographic material (or risqué material) on the internet and profiting from it.
That’s the difference. Producing pornography is seen as a very different scenario than merely viewing it (unless it’s child porn). They were producing pornography on OnlyFans starring themselves and security found out (we have people who monitor all social media sites for potential adverse information involving our employees/contractors).
Not working there any more does not necessitate losing one’s clearance. These are two different processes. The employer determines if one keeps one’s job. The government determines if one keeps one’s clearance. I realize this may be viewed as splitting hairs.
Government contractors that employ cleared personnel typically have security departments/FSOs who have a direct line to the relevant government agencies to report adverse information.
And in many cases, when you lose your security clearance, you lose your job as well, since the clearance can be a condition of your employment (unless they can find you unclassified work, but employers don’t always have that readily available and it’s completely at their discretion to make that offer or not).
Ahhh. You never said that. That would explain it.