Is Porn Becoming a Monopoly?

As the consumer internet becomes ‘sterilized and gentrified,’ alt-porn producers say they’re being marginalized

A still from the independent pornography project, Four Chambers. Photo courtesy of Vex Ashley

In June 2018, Patreon told Vex Ashley that it was effectively shutting down her page. Ashley’s independent pornography project, Four Chambers, had been on the funding site for a number of years, and the income it provided was her…