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Here's a fucking excellent headline:
The Premier League (#966444) and, to some extent, the universities (#974877), is the only few areas where Britain still excels. (#1003215)
...and, adds Louise Perry expertly: porn.
OnlyFans is booming in Britain. Something like 4% of young British women are on it... and there's a truckload of dough to be had, for the elite ones that succeed at it anyway.

"Blue has become world famous for the escalating depravity of her stunts."

Whatever OnlyFans is, it isn’t easy. For creators like Blue, Phillips and Knight, their ‘work’ is gruelling, disgusting, painful and dangerous. If you’re a beautiful and cynical young woman intent on becoming rich, it would surely be far easier to seek out a wealthy husband
Explanations for why this is even a thing?
Mental illness of some kind, perhaps – a crushing sense of insecurity or a drive towards self-harm. Or maybe creators have the gambling addict’s inability to weigh up risks vs benefits. It’s also possible that some are so desperate for cash they’re willing to risk their children or even their grandchildren one day coming across their most hardcore content (in this regard, OnlyFans is a riskier proposition than ‘normal’ prostitution, since the images remain in circulation forever).
I suspect there’s something else at play, too, and it can best be understood by looking at the other side of the OnlyFans exchange – the men paying for it all. Online porn is a classic example of a supernormal stimulus: that is, an exaggerated stimulus that elicits a stronger response than the natural, evolved stimulus it resembles.

"The relationship between normal sex and online porn is similar to the relationship between normal food and the most ingeniously designed ultra-processed food"

The online super stimulus that really knocks women sideways is not the consumption of sexual content, but the production of it. Women want to be beautiful as fiercely and obsessively as men want to get laid.
Image-based social media is a supernormal stimulus for women, particularly young and attractive ones. Posting a sexy selfie is a guaranteed means of attracting sexual attention from men and ‘You go, girl’ compliments from other women, all of which induce a fizzy feeling of self-esteem in a woman evolved to cherish her own beauty. OnlyFans then goes a step further, giving women access to the sexual attention and money of hundreds or even thousands of men.

"Being ugly is not a trivial misfortune – which means, conversely, that becoming more beautiful can radically improve a person’s life. No wonder so many women are obsessed with achieving the perfect glow-up."

Rullllleeeeee, Britannia... Yeah, in other words: Britain is, pardon the pun, fucked!

71 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 23h
it would surely be far easier to seek out a wealthy husband
I think this is viewed like the tyranny of a single customer. At least with many customers you have the illusion of control because you can't pinpoint the source of your motivations.
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Elaborate?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 22h
If you run a widget factory, and are contractually obligated to sell all your widgets to Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos has a lot of control over you.
However, if you sell your widgets to whoever wants them, you may be doomed to produce widgets you hate, but there's no single person to blame for you having to do the work that you hate. You'd starve if your customers stop buying widgets, and are thus controlled by them, but it's hard to identify the locus of that control (so we don't perceive it in the same way we do Jeff Bezos controlling us).
This kind of customer/mob control is most dramatically expressed (for me) when content creators are audience captured: #278856.
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193 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 23h
Being ugly is not a trivial misfortune – which means, conversely, that becoming more beautiful can radically improve a person’s life.
Ahhh shit. Now at least I've pinpointed my problem.
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C'mon, surely you already knew
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I knew it was ugly, I didn't know it was a problem. 😕
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Fantastic article
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @seashell 11h
I think this is just a sign of a moral less society running on a moral less system. When the system itself has no morals, how can we expect people to suddenly have them? Most folks don't even know what a moral compass is anymore let alone have one. It’s not just about porn, it’s about how empty everything’s gotten. No real community, no values, everyone is just coping in their own messed up ways. The fact that this is one of the few growing industries in the UK says it all. When there’s no meaning or support, people scramble to survive however they can.
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58 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 21h
If men stopped paying for this it would finish right?
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Yup simple economics
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 19h
How are we going to get British men laid?
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Fly them to India?
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Migrants in UK have to be entertained when they take a break from rape and stabbing
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Ouch, that's dark
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Migrants in general not just in UK
Fixed it lol
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Bonnie Blue and Lilly Phillps single-handedly and double fistingly keeping them UK economy going, good on em, despite hoeflation rates being so sky high
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