"America-First Dating."
These words are plastered on top of a "dating application" website for conservative OnlyFans model Anya Lacey.
19-year-old Lacey, who also has 1.3 million followers on Instagram and over 680,000 on TikTok, isn't afraid to call out her seemingly contradictory existence: She posts nude photos online, but she also wants to be a tradwife — a woman, typically married with children, who adheres to traditional feminine gender roles of domestic labor and subservience to her husband.
"You're a tradwife and post [cat emoji] pictures," one of her videos is captioned. "You're a Christian and do Ohh Eff [OnlyFans]."
But to Lacey, doing OnlyFans doesn't mean she's not "traditional."
"It's a new time," Lacey told Mashable in an interview. "We all have phones, we all have social media. And if you can be traditional and at the same time make an income off of showing it to the world and promoting it to the world, all the better to you."
Now, the OnlyFans creator wants a partner husband. Lacey launched her Date Anya last week, and already the site has had over 30,000 visitors and 2,100 completed questionnaires from people who want to date her. Mashable spoke with Lacey about her dating site and her politics at a time when Republicans want to erase porn on the internet.
How Anya Lacey started her OnlyFans
Last year, Lacey started gaining a following on TikTok and hosted TikTok Lives. She'd get DMs about whether she had an OnlyFans, and she started seriously considering it.
"I was like, 'What if I really did this, and not just for funsies, but actually as a business strategy," she told Mashable. "I decided, why not give it a shot?"
She started posting nude photos on OnlyFans in addition to waitressing, but quit waitressing at the end of 2024. She also said she's had other odd jobs, like sales and delivering pizzas.
"I put all my effort into this," Lacey said of her OnlyFans and social media presence. When women come to her for advice on how to do the same, she says, "Unless you're OK with your family, your future children, your grandparents, seeing every part of you — and I mean, every part of you — don't do it."
"When I started, I said, 'I am OK with all that," said Lacey, who lives in Florida. "I'm OK with the consequences that come with that. I'm OK with the workload that comes with that.'"
Lacey said she's always been a hard worker no matter what the job is. Even if someone came to her and offered a billion dollars, she'd still work.
So, why does she want to be a tradwife?
The OnlyFans tradwife
Lacey describes herself as a "red-blooded conservative," and to her, conservative means believing in family, tradition, and "what's right and standing up for it to the fullest." In addition to finding a husband, she also wants to give men and women dating tips, including "Exclusivity before intimacy. Protect your future children."
On the Date Anya site, some of her non-negotiables include monogamy before intimacy, not splitting the bill on a first date, and not having a partner whose life is "dominated by porn."
But Lacey said that out of all the jobs she's had, nothing has brought her the security and opportunity that OnlyFans has — and she has no plans of stopping. "There's definitely an end date that God has a date for," she said, but she doesn't.
As a Christian with what she called Judeo-Christian principles, Lacey said there's a "moral reckoning" inside her about doing OnlyFans.
"We all sin to a certain extent, and I think at the end of the day, if I can provide…my future children with the absolute best life possible, and making sure that my husband has that as well, I'm willing to make this temporary sacrifice for this time in order to get those things in the end," she said, "especially when I know on the inside that I do believe in God and I try to live the rest of my life in the most Christian, [God-]fearing way."
She also believes one can be "traditional" in terms of adhering to gender roles, without being conservative.
"There's a lot that goes into it besides just baking sourdough," she said, like having children and listening to your husband even when it's inconvenient.
When your party wants to ban your job
Lacey recognizes that some fellow conservatives want to ban porn, but she said a lot of people voting for that are the biggest customers. "I think we all know this to a certain extent," she said. "But as I said, we're all sinners."
She believes Christian, God-fearing men in the House and Senate watch pornography, and while they grandstand, porn bans won't happen due to the First Amendment.
Some Republican lawmakers are trying to make it happen, however. Project 2025, the far-right wishlist for President Trump's second term, calls for an outright porn ban and imprisoning its creators. Since Trump's inauguration in January, Republicans have introduced several bills to do just that: Oklahoma's porn ban, Michigan's porn ban (and ban on erotic ASMR and VPNs…), and an interstate bill to change the definition of obscenity, which experts told Mashable would basically ban porn as well.
These bills have yet to gain momentum to be passed and enacted, but it's not just explicit bans that impact the porn industry. For years, age-verification bills — which require proof of age like a facial recognition scan or government ID — have been enacted in states across the country to access adult content sites. While free speech experts and an initial NYU study suggested that these bills don't work for their intended purpose (to stop minors from viewing this content), they persist.
Last year, Project 2025 co-writer and director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, reportedly said in a secret recording that these bills would serve to ban porn through the "back door."
Experts have told Mashable that this porn censorship has a high likelihood of creeping into "safe for work" corners of the internet, as it already has in the UK, with non-pornographic entities like video games and Spotify requiring proof of age.
Lacey believes that even if something is immoral doesn't mean it should be illegal.
"Honestly, in my heart of hearts, there is a part of me that believes that pornography is wrong, but there [are] a lot of things that I think are morally wrong but should not be legally wrong," like drinking and smoking, she said.
It doesn't seem that many Republican politicians share this view publicly, but for now, Lacey can still go after her dream of being a tradwife who does OnlyFans.
