Onlyfans took over the World

Interesting article, I didn’t realize how much content/interaction on onlyfans is faked. I don’t know anyone who admits to using this kind of parasocial pornography. In my social circles it would be embarrassing to admit that this is how you spend your money.

I used to watch [regular] porn when I was younger and had little real-life sexual experience, but coming back to it as an adult I mostly find it kind of weird and off-putting. I’d assume onlyfans gets most of its business from men who have a hard time finding connection in the real world, and maybe don’t even have a sense of what genuine connection looks and feels like. I have a lot of empathy for them.

(Super fascinating read. I'm glad to have come across it.)

> Getting paid for sex places women into a traditionally masculine role - they become the pursuer, trying to extract something they want from the opposite gender, competing amongst themselves to be the most attractive to otherwise uninterested targets. In a sense, this forced masculine areas of the internet into adopting defensive feminine norms, as they banned any ‘predatory’ behavior and started socially deriding any sellers as being gross or embarrassing.

The gender assignment makes me scratch my head, though probably in the same manner that people do the same in "normal" discussions where the "gender roles" aren't "reversed". But, I'd easily characterize it as unwelcomingly aggressive sales and marketing.

Earlier in the article:

> Sexy subreddits I used to post nudes in with no issues suddenly started instituted rules against me and every other girl who had a link to her OF in her bio. [..] banning accounts that linked to OF, and then sometimes even accounts that linked to any other website which then led to an OF.

These sound like more like communities trying to cope with the aggressive tactics that saturate the forums when a user is just trying to browse content without the bombardment of creators' self-marketing eclipsing the material they are trying to find.

To be fair, I'd feel a lot less aggro when the creator is submitting content accurately in line with the topic or /r/ and without spamming the forum, and some do play nicely in this manner; many people/agents do not.

And sure, in turn, I could get on board with the /r/ moderating their community and not resorting to a blanket ban policy simply for a link to an OF or extra-hop funnel in their profile.

I enjoyed reading this but I really need to know more about this closing line.

> I like that men have graduated from “prerecorded, untouchable porn” to “slightly more interactive porn with a facsimile of a slightly realer girl”

What is there to like about that?

I skimmed read the article, but one critical part that made OF explode to 'household' name is catalyst COVID provided.