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(ST LOUIS) — The $2 million Brianna Coppage says she made on OnlyFans in the last year proved a lot more lucrative than her day job as a high school teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what I need right now?\u201d she says in an Instagram promo video. \u201cSomeone to take me to dinner, and then bring me home and have me for dessert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before beginning to produce saucy videos in 2023, Coppage was a high school English teacher in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, and struggling to make ends meet after her husband was laid off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made $42,000 per year,\u201d she told Ashan Singh in an interview with “Nightline.” \u201cMissouri is one of the lowest paying states in the country for teacher pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

She spotted a friend\u2019s page on OnlyFans, the subscription-based video hosting service primarily associated with adult sexual content, and decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo at first, it was just like me and my husband. Just like boy-girl stuff, girl stuff, just me. But didn’t show my face at all,\u201d she said of her early videos on the platform.<\/p>\n

This added $5,000 a month to her income, she told “Nightline.” OnlyFans has more than 3 million creators, pulling in more than $1 billion a year, according to parent company Fenix International Limited\u2019s 2022 earnings report<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could pay our rent, but I also didn’t know how much of a risk there was going to be. So at the time it was me thinking, \u2018Well, can they actually fire me for this?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this concern, Coppage didn\u2019t see her OnlyFans career as being at odds with her work as a teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn’t doing anything illegal,\u201d she said. \u201cI’m there to teach reading and writing. Like I’m not there to instill their morals.\u201d<\/p>\n

She found out exactly what her employer thought after a school employee suspected that she was the woman hiding her face in one of her videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018I guess I need to tell the school,\u2019 \u201d she said. \u201cAnd then I just started, like, kind of panicking. And then someone called and reported it to the school.\u201d<\/p>\n

This resulted in Coppage going on leave from her teaching job, with global media picking up on the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing my name and my face in every news article around the world was like a huge shock to me,\u201d she said of that moment.<\/p>\n

Coppage quit shortly after her OnlyFans career became public knowledge. Despite this, she says she wouldn\u2019t have a problem with someone teaching her children who had a similar side-hustle.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200b\u200bAs long as they were not, like, bringing it to school, talking to my kid about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Even though her career as a teacher was cut short, Coppage has embraced her life as an OnlyFans creator.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t have any regrets,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Coppage fits the traditional mold of an OnlyFans creator — young and female \u2013 but the site caters to a wide range of desires. Joe Gow is a 63-year-old whose porn work bumped up against his 16-year career as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt a little more liberated, if you will, and just thought \u2018Let’s experiment and just see. Would anybody be interested in these videos?\u2019 \u201d he told “Nightline.”<\/p>\n

Gow has been making sexy videos with his wife Carmen Wilson for 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Joe was like, \u2018Well, I don’t know how to ask you this, but how do you feel about porn?\u2019 I’m like \u2018Yeah, I’m OK with porn,\u2019 \u201d Wilson said of the moment that kicked off this escapade.<\/p>\n

They recorded about 20 videos over a decade, but didn\u2019t make them public. That changed in late 2023, when they started uploading the videos to their \u201cSexy Happy Couple\u201d OnlyFans account. When that failed to attract many subscribers, they tried using a free porn video hosting site.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn’t expect it to get out in \u2026 kind of the explosive way that it did,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cAnd there are so many millions of videos to watch on the free sites, how would we even get noticed? Well we did, quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

This prompted the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse\u2019s legal team to send Gow an email asking about the video. He acknowledged that it was indeed he and Wilson, and he was terminated as chancellor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent days, we learned of specific conduct by Dr. Gow that has subjected the university to significant reputational harm. His actions were abhorrent,\u201d it said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n

The incident was widely reported, with Gow telling outlets he believes he was punished for making porn videos with his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe media reaction was just stunning,\u201d Gow said. \u201cWe’ve been in several British papers. We were in The Economic Times.”<\/p>\n

Despite losing his job as chancellor, Gow believed his tenured teaching position in media studies would be safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn’t surprised when they said, \u2018You can’t be chancellor,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cBut \u2018We’re going to go after you as a tenured faculty member.\u2019 Wow. That’s new.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a hearing in June, Gow acknowledged making the videos.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200b\u200bWe did so on our own time, using our own money,\u201d he said at the gathering.<\/p>\n

Colleagues aired their beliefs that Gow had damaged the university\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t want to be known as Porn U,\u201d Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan said at the hearing. \u201cWe want to be known for the quality of our academic programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the university released a unanimous decision to dismiss him for unethical conduct.<\/p>\n

Gow continues to fight, despite his health insurance benefit potentially hanging in the balance. He says if he walked away willingly he could keep the benefit — estimated to be worth $313,000. But by choosing to fight, he risks losing it.<\/p>\n

His appeal could be heard sometime in August.<\/p>\n

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