LAS VEGAS—Legal sex workers based throughout Nevada are reportedly losing access to their social media accounts in recent weeks, AVN confirmed.
AVN was notified of this development by Jeremy Lemur, marketing director at the licensed brothel Sheri's Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. Lemur wrote on his personal blog at Medium.com on Dec. 6, 2025, that "[legal] Nevada sex workers have experienced a massive and unprecedented wave of account suspensions" on X.
"These are not accounts soliciting illegal activity of any kind," writes Lemur. "These are licensed workers in the only state where brothel sex work is legal, yet their voices are being removed from a platform that once promised free speech."
Several sex workers confirmed with AVN the removal of their accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, which is a social media platform that supposedly bills itself as pro-free speech. Alice Little, a popular courtesan and adult content creator, shared that her presence on the platform was "strictly safe-for-work" (SFW).
"My account was strictly SFW content, promoting a perfectly legal service," she said, referring to how Nevada is the only state in the U.S. that allows legal brothels.
"For a platform that supposedly promotes free speech, X has become an incredibly unfriendly platform to the legal brothel industry," explained Little. "The vast majority of my colleagues experienced deletion—no warnings, we just woke up one day and years of hard work had completely vanished."
Little explained that she lost access to her X account, which had at least 94,000 followers, that she had spent years growing since setting it up in 2018. She expressed her concern about being banned from her TikTok account in a post on Dec. 10, characterizing her ban for so-called "illegal activity" as blatant discrimination.
Little often works out of the Chicken Ranch in Pahrump and is a popular courtesan with a viral internet presence, having been featured in major news outlets.
"I think it's crazy that X will allow [the Grok AI] to nonconsentually undress women, but won't allow women to consensually post," explained Little.
Here, she referred to a recent viral and endemic trend on X that saw users using Grok, the artificial intelligence engine created for X by the platform's controversial billionaire owner, Elon Musk, to undress women, even cases with minors and other AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery.
She goes on to explain further, "The NSFW filter [on X] has become so strict that even women in bikinis are being flagged for adult content. Sex workers have always been the canary in the coal mine for censorship—if X is willing to silence us, they will silence anyone and everyone they dislike."
"This is not merely about soulless algorithms moderating adult content," added Lemur in his Medium.com post. "This is about who is allowed to participate in a vital and potentially life-affecting conversation."
Other courtesans and adult content creators reported they were negatively impacted, especially those with accounts with thousands of followers. For example, one sex worker operating out of a local brothel in the vicinity of Pahrump told AVN on the condition of anonymity that their account was restricted for similar accusations.
They added that the work of generating a large following and having it taken away due to claims of illegal activity is "disheartening" and "totally demoralizing to me."
According to the terms and conditions on X, illegal activity on the platform includes "sexual services." Sexual services, per X policy, are defined as services that include "attempting or seeking in-person sexual services" and services that "involve financial transaction, physical meetup, and may be offered using encrypted communication."
This definition covers prostitution, escort services, sexual and adult massage, sugar relationships, and "other sexual services where human trafficking is not apparent."
As defined by Nevada state law, licensed and regulated legal brothels can operate in communities that accept such establishments, provided other conditions are met. That is legally operating by definition and would theoretically meet the social network's definition of acceptable speech, which technically permits adult content.
Another anonymous source recently informed AVN of the broad wording in the sexual services policy, noting that it is being used to justify deplatforming for sex workers based in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and jurisdictions throughout the European Union and the United Kingdom.
Though not directly related to the cases of deplatforming in Nevada, the source pointed to how creators and sex workers are losing their accounts due to this policy.
X "is permanently banning any accounts that...retweet...sex parties, offer meet-ups, escort, etc.," the anonymous source said. "You will not get your account back no matter what...even if these services are legal where you live."
"It doesn't seem like they (X) care if it is porn or [escorting] by the way they word this," the source said, referring to the social media platform's sexual services policy.
X did not return AVN's request for comment on the matter by post time.
