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> The men who drive by want to cum as fast as possible with as little damage to their pocketbook as possible This cannot be true. Anyone can find ample porn online (definitely enough to cum) for free. Therefore it follows that people engaging with OnlyFans and other paid-for porn services must be getting something else out of it - the illusion of an intimate (two-way) relationship, the feeling of dominance (uttering…

I'm not so sure that novelty is far fetched, speaking from my own experiences. My porn tastes are not fully mainstream, but not far off the path either. You can definitely hit a point where it feels like every clip that matches your interests is one you've seen before. Every actor is one you've seen before. When visiting Pornhub or similar I noticed myself going straight for the "sort by newest" option more often. An…

Glad you mentioned Chaturbate. I'm a consumer, but haven't the courage to log in or contribute yet! Whenever I get overdosed with women beating up on male sexuality, or the perpetual discussion of how awful and exploitative porn is, I know I can go to Chaturbate. I'll find lots of happy smiling people. On the couples page, young good looking couples, rightly proud of their skills, are having the sex we should all be having. Women are getting pleasured as much as men, by and large. Some might find the practices disgusting, but the practitioners don't seem to. Apart from perhaps the full-timers, I don't see much social-influencer preening. It's more spontaneous, plus preening in a bedroom setting seems less about vanity and more about getting yourself properly rogered. If we're having more and better sex, and it certainly looks like it, we probably have porn and the pill, and now chat sites to thank. Goodness, only a few decades ago we needed Alex Comfort to tell us that oral sex was alright. In particular, hope this isn't the dirty old man speaking, women (especially but not only on Chaturbate) seem to have thrown off the yoke of an imposed modesty, and seem not to be missing it much. I'm sure there are problems, and abuse, but I wish this and other hand-wringing discussions would start from the premise that if we are having more and freer sex, that's a good thing, and that men and women, despite all the problems, are made for each other.

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Fire up the throwaway! Not 100% related to the article, but directly related. I worked as developer for a product in the same niche ("democratizing adult content"). I spent almost 2 years working on the frontend, devops, and building out the analytics engine (all pre-covid). Anyway, on to the comment at hand. We had a small number of users compared to OnlyFans (when I left, there were about 20K active content creator…

We could also just all stop being prudes about nudity. I can't name a single other species that would shame because one of them is naked.

Re: Under the skin of OnlyFans

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This is a great claim that has no evidence.

What percentage of people have an OnlyFans? What percentage of people get involved in the conventional porn industry? Is one much higher than the other (yes). Is the evidence rock solid? No. It rarely is, but that doesn't mean you can dismiss it out of hand.

I can dismiss making up numbers and conclusions based on no evidence. Just because you think something is true does not mean it is.

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Our culture is sick. I don't judge you or your ex-girlfriend for doing it but the whole webcam business shouldn't be a thing. Governments should do more to help socially awkward people make real connections with others outside the internet. Instead people sit at home more and more and then lonely men pay to look at streams of women masturbating. If you got someone to time travel from 100 years ago they'd probably thi…

You think the government should stop people from jacking off?

You could ask the same about other addictive behavior. They do a lot to discourage people from smoking or injecting heroin. The government should force anyone into anything but but as societies we can at least discourage unhealthy behavior to a certain degree. And more importantly offer help to those willing to take it. Actually if you look around on social media there are many people who know their situation is messed up and are looking for ways out. No one cares about them though. No one is helping.

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So our kids are getting older so I've been paying more attention to popular social networks and it's wild how many YouTubers, Twitch'ers, TikTok'ers, Instagram'ers have OF content directly linked from their non-porn bios. I don't like it, but I'm not sure what a good solution is. I mean, people are free to do what they'd like, but it's hard to police screen time 100% of the time and their peer group has a lot more ac…

Related, it sucks that so much content nowadays is just a thinly veiled advertisement for OF pages.

Or for Patreon subs.
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