The way to not come off as a creep is to not be a creep. Overcommunicate. Ask for consent for every interaction. Respect boundaries. Be professional. Don’t touch the model. Don’t try to fuck the model. Respect your subjects. Don’t make lewd comments.

Many models are happy to work with inexperienced photographers. But as a general rule - the person asking for the shoot is the person who should be willing to pay for it. You’ll have to pay them. There’s generally a thriving market for that - many models do it full time or as a side hustle, many models travel around and book shoots in the locations they go to. You can find them on model mayhem.

There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s a valid genre to make art in. But you do have to be prepared to pay to make it.

There is very, very little market for a photographer who’s hoping to get paid for this sort of thing. Most women who do onlyfans are either doing self portraiture or relying on a partner to shoot the content. There are few if any of them seeking out or paying for photographers for it.

Boudoir photographers do exist and there’s somewhat of a market for that, but you’d still have to hire models to build your own portfolio as the clients for it are typically women who don’t want the photos published anywhere. The photographers who offer that typically have their own portrait studio and it’s just one kind of service they offer.

Beyond that, most photographers in the space (there really aren’t that many) are either working for or running their own porn site. But there’s really not much of a market for still images anymore, so even those are few and far between and difficult to make any sort of income doing.