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I've noticed that there is a huge amount of these models, including many Russians, offering "dick ratings".

I always felt it likely at least some of these are managed by FSB as a way to gain blackmail material on western citizens. I have no evidence that's the case, except that it would be extremely doable and probably very effective.

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I know a person who in the last years moved from doing sex work in the physical world, to using OnlyFans and other online resources since Covid began.

Initially, she didn't offer "dick ratings" but there was so many requests for her to do it, that she started doing it.

Now most of her profits is simply from people who want her to rate their dick.

She's not Russian or have any affiliation to Russia. I think people are just generally strange.

Yeah, not suggesting the whole practice is a front. But it would surprise me just as much if none of it was either. Seems too golden an opportunity for various bad actors for it not to be exploited. Hell, it even pays for itself.

Simply submit the relevant evidence, and in two to four weeks, you receive a 15 page report, stamped by the Inspector of Dicks.

I mean, that's how I'm imagining it.

One could speed up things by having a ML model for rating dicks.

Until someone creates thisdickdoesnotexist.com to game the system.

PS: apparently the domain is up. IDK... I ran out of original ideas.

I know you're only commenting in jest, but in case other people are curious:

The replies she commonly give people are more like "That's a pathetic cock, I'd never want anything to do with it and I'm sure others hate it too 2/10" or "Wow, what a grandiose dick, a master among plebs, 9/10", and anything in-between, depending on what it seems like the person wants to hear.

The times we've talked about it, it seems most people want to be degraded, which seems a bit self-destructive, but I don't know them and won't judge whatever they are into. People be strange!

So what you're saying is, I've found an unexploited market segment?

There's an old KGB trick called "sweet trap" where the target is seduced and filmed having sex (ideally non-conventional sex like bondage, gay, etc.) for blackmail purposes.

It's also a common scam nowadays, only remote and with nudes instead of actual sex.

It would make sense the FSB and colleagues have modernised and also use modern techniques. In fact a few years back a candidate for mayor of Paris (unlikely to win, but would have had ~15-20% of the votes) had a video of him masturbating, IIRC with another guy on video chat, released on Twitter. The guy was a "traditional family" type and resigned from his campaign.

There are more efficient ways to get blackmail material, especially that FSB doesn't care about random citizens. Also if, for some specific reason, they would need to blackmail specific random citizen, they probably would use more mundane ways (like threatening that they will throw you to jail).

It's a trend. The world of camming and OF is highly susceptible to trends, like other marketing / business arenas.

is it too utopian to think that there is a threshold where we have all been online long enough to cease viewing eachother's intimate pictures as compromising? imo you don't have to be a nudist to find the prospect of being blackmailed by your own body incredibly strange.

quite sure you're overthinking it.

a picture of some random dick does not qualify as blackmail material.

Nude pictures don't qualify as blackmail material? Clearly they do, to some people, as there are numerous cases of nudes being used for extortion.

I doesn't seem far fetched that there could be a significant overlap between men who have enough insecurity about themselves to pay for the service, and men who would be amenable to blackmail using said photos.

Besides, it's not just the photo. Likely other things were shared as well, and the embarassment of having paid for online sexting might be more than enough for some people. Especially if they're married...

sure, the fact that someone was/is using the service can be used, but requires additional identification.

imo a "dick pic" is just that, a picture of male genitalia whereas a "nude" is usually a picture of a naked person (i.e. identifiable)

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