A gay OnlyFans creator has become the center of a controversy following a domestic violence awareness campaign.
Rossy Rankin recently appeared in a TikTok that followed a familiar format in which couples go through 10 questions and have to decide which of them is best described by each one. This particular video took an intentionally dark turn as the questions shifted to things like, "Who is more likely to lose their temper?" and "Who demands to know where the other one is at all time?" before they simply cut the video off.
"Controlling behaviour can turn a loving relationship into an abusive one," reads a screen at the end. "Is your behavior becoming a problem?"
The video was scripted and Rankin is an actor hired to play the role as part of a Police Scotland campaign against domestic violence. But Rankin is also an OnlyFans creator, and apparently that discovery led to backlash from certain groups who took issue with the fact that some of Rankin’s content involves harder — but consensual — kinks.
"How can the public trust Police Scotland’s commitment to tackling the escalating harm of abuse through non-fatal strangulation when they fail to vet out those who normalise such dangerous practices from their own domestic violence campaigns?" Alba MSP Ash Regan asked. "If we are serious about protecting victims, there can be no mixed messages — safeguarding must be prioritised."
But Police Scotland capitulating to critics and take the video down sends a message that isn’t sitting well with everyone.
"So police Scotland think that bondage and kink between two consenting adults is domestic abuse," one person replied to Rankin on X. "Surely the message is consent is healthy and it’s abuse when not consensual? Until people stop seeing sex as dirty and not to be talked about true victims won’t be treated with respect."
Rankin agreed, blasting the decision and pointing out that if Police Scotland didn’t want an OnlyFans creator in their video, even a minimal amount of vetting ahead of time should have solved that, as he is very open about what he does on social media.
"If you see what I do, and you don’t know the difference between consent and no-consent, then you’re an idiot," he toldThe Telegraph. "A porn creator is exactly the kind of person who knows the difference."
