Kate Nash defends her ‘Butts For Tour Buses’ OnlyFans campaign: “Women being in control of their bodies is vital”

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Kate Nash has defended her ‘Butts For Tour Buses’ OnlyFans campaign, arguing that it is vital that women are “in control of their bodies”.Earlier this week, the ‘Foundations’ singer announced that she had started an account on the online subscription service as a way of raising money for her UK and European tour, which kicked off on Thursday (November 21).Explaining her decision, she said: “Whilst touring is the best job EVER it is currently technically what you might call a passion project for a lot of artists in 2024.”She went on to state that while ticket prices are rising, most touring musicians are “struggling to be able to afford to actually play shows”.“Costs of travel, accommodation, food, promotion & employees have also gone up in price but musicians are not seeing changes in their gig fees to help pay for all these rising costs,” she added. “So this Christmas I’m asking that buy either a piece of my merch or my arse on my new ONLYFANS account katenyash87 to support me paying great wages & putting on a high quality show as I will not sacrifice either of things.”Now, Nash has spoken out in defence of her decision to start the OnlyFans channel, saying she wanted to address accusations that it is a “sad” thing to do.“Don’t be ‘sad’ that I started an onlyfans to fund my tours,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s very empowering and selling pics of my arse is fun & funny, sex is fun & funny.

Women being in control of their bodies is vital and something we should all be standing by & fighting for.”A post shared by Kate Nash (@katenash)“If you could remove shame & sadness from your perception of sex work you can help empower sex workers,” she added.