I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free

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• alyth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I still don’t get why people spend money”

  Because you want to support specific content creators and free isn’t sustainable

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  • li10@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but for porn tho…

    Just beat your meat to standard stuff or meet someone IRL, rather than developing some unhealthy attachment to someone on OF who’s exploiting your desperation.

    I dunno, I guess if you just wanna pay for porn you like then it’s fine, but some people develop very unhealthy attachments/obsessions to supplement a real human connection.

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    • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s no different than subscribing to twitch/YouTube creators. The content is just different. There are plenty of people with unhealthy obsessions that aren’t related to porn.

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    • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but for porn tho…

      So what you’re saying is sex workers aren’t real workers and don’t deserve to be paid. If that becomes true and no one pays for porn, GUESS WHAT: no more porn. It has to be profitable for the people doing it. It’s not like art, the vast, vast majority aren’t doing it because they love it. They’re doing it for money.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Porn creators also need money to live, no?

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re really overthinking it. I’d say the vast majority of people paying simply came across something they wanted to see, and paying for it is faster and easier (and safer) than trying to search it out for free.

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can get a personal performance and it can be healthy. They ain’t mutually exclusive, especially around niches where content isn’t just reposted on every site.

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    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am definitely not like others, I have only paid like 3 times on OF and they were like $5 each. Sometimes you just really want to see what that person looks like. 99% of the time I don’t care and free is cool. Never got exploited, or had an unhealthy attachment.

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  • guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Porn was around long before OF and OF isn’t why porn is still around.

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    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OF isn’t the only way people pay for porn

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So basically, you like paying for porn, is that it? Or maybe that specific girl/guy? Or couple?

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    • alyth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know I might be a bit of a porn snob but since I have the means I will attempt to pay for my porn. It’s hard to know if any random porn video was made ethically and that the actors/actresses are being paid appropriately. That’s why I like onlyfans. This way I’m, mostly, assured the money is is going directly to the preformer(s).

  Not to say onlyfans can’t be predatory. As long as I am being decerning in my purchases I am comfortable with it. If an onlyfans model started wildly blurring the line of service provider and customer, I would recommend not paying for services any more. This can be difficult too because I know some of the services invovle intense inter personal sexual fantasy. I would just say be careful. Especially if you’re find yourself struggling financially.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought about paying for it. I checked out my favorite site, and it costs more than my monthly phone bill, that’s just absurd. And greedy.

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  • misspacfic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    well said

    sometimes there are cute little upsides to paying for porn. for example, at least one person i followed would let you “purchase” poloroids they took of themselves (usually more artsy shots) which would then be sent via mail to you. she wrote little notes on the back, cool poetry, etc.

    personally, lewd art from a lewd artist is way more alluring/interesting to me and adds a lot to the “experience.”

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are correct… but I’ve seen all sort of free content from producers (couples or just a single girl) that just like to share that stuff for free. Why? It’s a kink they have… and I have to mention that that amateur content is THE BEST porn I’ve ever seen! No bullshit, just people enjoying in the moment! Love it!

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Buy local from small producers

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  • Arcity@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are 23 singles in your area

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      THATS A LOT OF TITS

      (Plz read that in the voice of the nuts guy in Kung Pow)

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or make your own at home, it’s cheaper and sustainable.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know for a fact that’s what your mom does.

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  • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Organic pr0n?

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Free range mostly

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still don’t get why people spend money… there’s tons of it for free

  There are free video games. There are paid video games. Why do people pay for video game if free ones exist?

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s advantages to paying for video games, even single player such as cloud saves as one example. For multiplayer games you get online play with dedicated servers, rather than finding a workaround like LAN tunneling with pirated games.

    You literally get nothing special from paying for porn.

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    • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You literally get nothing special from paying for porn.

      You literally get the most special content by paying for porn, personalized content that’s catered to your needs. That’s literally why you pay for it.

      Yes, if I just want to see regular old sex K can just go to one of the bazillion free sites out there. But if I have a specific fetish that only a few creators are doing, of course it’s worth paying for it to support the production of said content, especially if their onlyfans allows requests.

      I totally understand that the vast majority of people are more than satisfied with typical porn and won’t ever feel the need to pay for it, but there’s so much diversity out there that the regular porn sites can’t get to it all, and that’s why some people pay for it, because they really want to scratch a specific itch.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s fine if you’re into vanilla porn, but if you have a fetish even slightly more niche than what they’ve got on ex: Kink.com, you’re not going to find more than a handful of videos for free (unless you go with piracy but that’s beside the point). And those will be digitized German VHS tapes. And will be out of focus. So in situations like that, paying for porn (or, paying to support creators that produce content you enjoy) becomes a lot more attractive as an option.

      … not that I’d know anything about it first hand.

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    • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While I don’t disagree…. I’d just like to say, that if you pay enough for porn, you can get exactly what you’re looking for.

      ROI isn’t worth it though.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’ve unintentionally stumbled upon one of modern gaming’s most pressing questions. When both free and paid options are a neverending smorgasbord of poor design choices, why purchase anything? Live service game models have shifted the landscape much closer to the free porn model for several game genres. Slightly tangential but… !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      U, i like this com, I’m exactly the type. Like I don’r have cutting edge hardware ever, so I usually wait to play some game I liked several years ago, but now. I even borrow GPUs sometimes if I’m not into buying a new one, even if it’s like $200, $300. I know, I’m cheap AF 😁.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Piracy is a matter of convenience. Buying a game is more convenient than pirating it. You can watch pirated porn movies with a simple Google search.

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    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to mention you even get pirate results even if search for a legit way to buy porn… like with Windows, you search for a specific build and tier (Pro, Ent, Home, whatever) and the first results you get are pirate links. Why? MS has abandoned those downloads a long time ago and basically, the only way you could actually get a copy of a specific Windows build is through pirate links… go figure 🤷.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    See, that also puzzles me, I really have no idea… especially since paid ones can also be obtained for free, so 🤷…

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    • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You really can’t get all paid content for free. Actually most paid content you won’t find for free. It’s not that easy.

      Sure if they’re a popular OF creator someone will likely be ripping their stuff but that dries up really quickly when you get to creators with like only a hundred patrons.

      The more niche you get the harder it is to find new content for free (pirated or not). That’s why people pay for it, they like the content and there’s no other way to obtain it (and they want to support the creation of it obviously).

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• LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not quite OnlyFans, but when you have specific interests, you gotta find specific folks with skills tailored towards those interests.

  Source: Close buddy of mine is a furry fetish artist. Not suspiciously wealthy, but he’s full time drawing raptor asses.

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  • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get the whole furry thing but sometimes I wish I had artistic talents because I would have no qualms getting paid to draw whatever degenerative crap people are into these days. Seems like a solid side hustle.

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    • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suspect most of that market’s about to die

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But… Raptors didn’t have fur 🧐

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    • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what you’re hung up on? There’s a whole subgenre of sharks with tits.

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    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Furry is just the kinda general term for the whole fandom. If you wanna refer to a furry or a scalie character without worrying about calling a scaly fella furry, anthro works plenty fine.

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    • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t let your wet dreams be dreams…

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  • greenskye@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This. Also in real life, people with specific talents know they’re rare and charge accordingly. Pornhub is full of average stuff and if that does it for you great (though I’d argue anyone considering themselves a ‘porn addict’ is unlikely to be satisfied with basic porn)

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still don’t get why people buy books… there’s ton of it at library

  I mean ya, but not the book I wanted to read specifically.

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  • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FYI: your local library probably has a subscription to eBook software. And if you use that, do utilize it! Libraries often get more funding the more customers and utilization they have. And you can usually request certain books for your library to buy. That’s really helpful for the librarians to figure out what their patrons want. Otherwise they often have to guess or just use national popular lists which might not fit as well.

    But yeah, also buy books your library doesn’t have.

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    • kofe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My local library saved my butt last week for a uni class I’m in, and I plan to follow up by buying the book now that I’ve read part of it and like it so much! “Happiness is a Choice You Make” by John Leland if anyone’s curious:) I was skeptical of the title but he’s building an excellent argument for it regarding aging

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    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think my library’s ebook software has doujinshi.

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  • guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol …what? People buy books to have it accessible right at home and not have to drive to a library.

    Porn is accessible anywhere.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you mean? I’d check the library website and it simply doesn’t have the book I want. It doesn’t matter even if I don’t mind going there.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It will get to the library, sooner or later… so, from my POV there is no point in buying it. I’m a patient man, I can wait 🤷.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can also go to anywhere on foot, sooner or later. Why do you pay for transport?

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just like with video games, the people paying for it are what keeps the supply going for the freeloaders. They should grateful to them!

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ummm… no.

    Freeloaders are only there because there is a product in the first place. If there was no product, freeloading off it wouldn’t exist.

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    • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ever heard of prohibiton?

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• LikeTearsInTheRain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you claim to be a porn addict but have never been tempted by or succumbed to spending money on porn, are you really an addict?

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My mate, Paul is addicted to cigarettes but he never has his own fuckin smokes. You telling me ain’t really an addict?

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    • unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      at least Paul doesn’t need porn. He’s addicted to being a cunt!

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    • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t read “My mate Paul” and not hear it in Philomena Cunk’s / Diane Morgan’s voice. Well played sir!

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait… What… How?

      Is the the type to just smoke in a couple of puffs just to get the nicotine hits? Just give him a nicotine patch at that point.

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    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good comparison 👍.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to suck dick for porn.

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  • Gakomi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure but tell you what, I watch pron for at least 2 hours a day every day and I never once paid for it. Now I said 2 hours cause I don’t include hentai or hentai games in that. To be fair even thought I pirate most hentai games I did buy the ones that I really enjoyed and are on Steam. So no for Porn I never payed I did however payed for hentai. And I most certainly have an addiction or at least a disorder considering the amount of time I waste on this!

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    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What are your recommendations for games?

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ummm… IDK, maybe I’m not… or maybe I like stuff that is so niche, people usually just throw it out there for free in hopes of finding someone to engage with them 🤔 🤷.

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• summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think people don’t pay for porn, people pay to be able to interact with the girl.

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  • hannes3120@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially with those with 1000s of subscribers - how are people fooling themselves into thinking that they don’t have someone answering their messages for them?

    Some of the most popular ones have whole crews for filming - why should social media be something they do on their own?

    I kind of get it for the ones with few subscribers though

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  • guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is insanely sad.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let us not disrespect the paying consoomer as they effectively sponsor the rest of us, especially those using adblockers

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• kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, you know how there are a million free indie games and lots of slightly shady websites where you can download free copies of paid games? But lots of people still buy games because it’s a better experience or they like to feel like they’re supporting people who are making the kinds of games that they like? It’s a lot like that, but with stigma.

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  • felykiosa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I pays but only for my audio porn because that s a niche and I really like my creators

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still don’t get it…

    Call me an old fashined pirate, but for me, it’s more about the trip than it is about the destination.

    I’ve been encountered with this fact about myself many times… I like this girl from somexxx.com website and I gotta take a look at what she’s got published. Low and behold, all sorts of content! OK, gotta pick and find them oke by one, gotta be picky about it, 1080p rips only, no 720p bullshit… aaaand after days of searching and downloading… I GOT IT ALL 🤤! And then I don’t even watch it 😒.

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• L0wded_@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i dont get it either like why would you pay for porn when there are free porn?

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  • Gakomi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m of the same sentiment but I don’t judge people that pay for porn, after all without them paying for it there would be no money in the porn industry so as a consequence no porn either. Simply put I will never pay for porn but I’m glad that others do so I can feed my addiction.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they have more money than you. Disposable income is going to be disposed of, one way or another.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even if I was the richest person alive, I still wouldn’t pay for porn. Sex? Maybe. Porn, no way.

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• desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  same reason you donate for a shoutout on twitch id assume

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s good to support creators if you like what they’re doing. I’ve supported Zishy in the past because they do high quality tasteful clothed/teasing photos of women who look like real women (not that there’s anything wrong with bimbos/plastic surgery). If you appreciate what someone is doing, monetary support isn’t unusual at all.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve found the quality goes up with paid porn, ethical porn is easier to get, and is also less objectifying.

  For example, there’s a bit on the Upper Floor between Stefanos (the dom and main host) and Penny Barber (one of the subs in that session). Penny noticed that Stefanos was wearing french cuffs, which she really likes. The next time she was on, Stefanos was sure to wear french cuffs again. It didn’t enhance the show’s primary purpose, which is titillation. It was simply a sweet gesture.

  Now, many Upper Floor scenes are available in part on PornHub and the like, but this is one interaction that’s likely cut. Even if it’s left in, you might not be able to piece the two together unless you watched the series in order, which would be hard to do on tube sites.

  Kink.com in general has pre and post interviews on almost all their content, which you don’t always see on PornHub. These often give personal insights into the people and the industry that may be cut out.

  AdultTime and Bree Mills are also doing some interesting work putting more women into production roles behind the camera, and stressing consent.

  Finally, there’s a list of sites like crashpadseries.com that are also stressing ethical porn, and they tend to deliberately keep their stuff off of tube sites.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only porn I would pay for is something bespoke that I had to specifically request be made.

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually, I think of onlyfans subscribers as pathetic simps that are too stupid to pirate that overpriced crap.

  Of course there’s people who pay for onlyfans just to re-distribute it for free everywhere they can. And to those people. I give a sincere thankyou, because 99% of leaked onlyfans content is boring compared to the free stuff that small creators on pornhub put out for free.

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• blazera@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  money spent means more porn

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Onlyfans is an oddity wrapped in an enigma. Not only is there a ton of free porn + all the porn one can torrent but there are dozens of free cam sites out there. I mean dead free! One can watch thousands of nude models nonstop.

  There should be no reason to pay for onlyfans. Ever.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I’m going invest 3 hours into a film or a series of films then I want a plot to follow

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  of the two camps, I would say the only fans aficionados are probably less depraved and slightly healthier because at least they are lusting after real women who they have a SLIGHTLY higher chance of ever connecting with

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