South Carolina Man Sentenced to Prison for Posting OnlyFans Videos Without Consent

For those wondering, no, you can't record yourself having sex with a girl and then post it on OnlyFans to make money.

This is a lesson a man has just learned the hard way.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to three years in prison after admitting that he uploaded sexually explicit videos of women to his OnlyFans account without their consent and charged viewers to watch them.

Sean Robert Onstad, of Mount Pleasant, pleaded guilty to two counts of dissemination, procuring, or promoting obscenity and two counts of aggravated voyeurism. The sentence was handed down following cases filed in both Charleston and Berkeley counties.

Onstad was first arrested on March 13, 2024, after a woman in Charleston County filed charges accusing him of posting a video of their sexual encounter online without her knowledge. He was released on bond following that arrest.

Approximately two weeks later, additional allegations surfaced. Two other women filed complaints in Berkeley County, leading to a second arrest.

Court documents stated that Onstad recorded himself having sexual intercourse with one victim in her bedroom. The video was later uploaded to his OnlyFans account, where viewers were charged $3 to access the content.

According to court records, one victim became aware of the videos in February 2024 after speaking with another woman who had previously dated Onstad. She then visited his OnlyFans page to determine whether any footage of her had been posted.

The victim discovered a video of herself on the account about a month after it had been uploaded.

After confronting Onstad through text messages, he acknowledged the act and apologized.

“Hey.. I did, it was a terrible thing to do,” he wrote. “I was in a bad spot in life and bad spot financially and it was stupid of me. I should’ve never done that without your consent and put you at jeopardy. I deleted everything off my profile and I’m deleting the whole thing as well. I’m really sorry that was terrible and selfish of me to do that.”

Following his guilty plea, Onstad was sentenced to three years in prison. After completing that term, he will serve three years of probation. If he violates the conditions of his probation, he could face an additional seven years behind bars.

The court also ordered that Onstad register as a sex offender and attend mental health counseling as part of his sentence.

At the time of the incidents, Onstad worked as a mortgage loan officer in Mount Pleasant, according to records from the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System.

In August 2025, he was also named in a federal lawsuit connected to the same allegations. Court records indicate that Onstad did not respond to the lawsuit.

The case highlights the strict legal requirements surrounding the production and distribution of explicit material. In the United States, sexually explicit content involving adults can only be legally distributed if all participants are over the age of 18 and have provided documented proof of age and written consent.

Producers are required to maintain government-issued identification records and signed model release forms confirming consent and age verification. Without those safeguards, distributing explicit recordings can constitute criminal offenses such as voyeurism, nonconsensual pornography, or obscenity-related violations.

Authorities have increasingly pursued criminal charges in cases involving the distribution of intimate images or videos without consent, sometimes referred to as “revenge porn”.

Celebrities love to talk about how their sex tapes were "leaked," implying it was all without their permission, but the reality is very different.

You can't post a sex tape without the person's written permission, as well as other associated documents. The very lesson this guy learned the hard way. There are no sex tapes released (celebrity or otherwise) that, behind the scenes, didn't first get their government-issued ID and sign paperwork authorizing the release.

If that were to ever happen, like in the case of Sean Robert Onstad, the person releasing the sex tape would be arrested.

Sean Robert Onstad lied about having the proper paperwork, and now he'll not only spend the next 3 years behind bars, but he'll be a registered sex offender.

He'll also likely lose any assets he has in the civil lawsuit filed against him.