I feel like every day the amount of girls making Onlyfans and similar going up. Girls who are below typical attractiveness making solid incomes, not even just young women but often well into their 50's, and attractive but not unbelievably so women making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. At the same time, people are having less sex than ever. If you consider going over a year without sex on average to be incel status, about a third of adult men are incels. It's no longer some niche thing that you have to be unusually ugly or unlikable to be. This only drives up the value of even getting the faint illusion of connection to a woman further out of reach, worsens porn addiction. 8 years ago, Tinder would give me about a match every 2 days. Now I'd be lucky to get one a week, and half of what I do get are onlyfans girls advertising. I'm with someone now but the dating landscape is devastatingly bad. Fewer men having success in dating broadens the range of women who can make a living off of having no skills but just having tits and a vagina, and exploiting the desperation and loneliness of this ever growing pool of men, who are simultaneously discriminated against in the workplace and made to consider their own sexuality evil, pressuring them to express it in the most toxic and non self respecting forms, giving up money they've worked for for someone who views them as a utility, not a mutual exchange of like for like, as with a healthy hookup or relationship, not even like a traditional husband wife partnership where the husband is the breadwinner and the wife works hard to take care of home and family, but for resources for essentially nothing but their existence, and a few feeble gestures of fake affection. Sex work is not like normal work. It doesn't produce something we wouldn't otherwise have. It takes something people would normally do for love and fun, something which emotionally bonds and creates joyful shared experiences and encourages it to be removed from it's joyful context withheld for money, 99% one way. Does ANYONE think with less sex work, the world would be a worse place? With women being required to be actually productive to make money instead of lying around and feeding unhealthy addictions brought about by and encouraging the loss of intimacy between the sexes?

I know my opinion is unpopular even in this subreddit, because "It's consentual selling of services like any other business transaction" etc. but all I can think of when I see this more and more often is people selling something they did nothing to earn, with minimal required skill, and all the lonely, desperate men who feel locked out of basic joys of life that they're exploiting. Does nobody think maybe the reason it's a taboo and disrespected profession historically is because it's deeply toxic, antisocial and destructive, like, say, gambling? It really repulses me. My question is where are the breaks on this thing? What is to stop this expanding to the significant majority of women exploiting the majority of men, apart from a cultural attitude that it is to be looked down upon, and men refusing to let themselves be taken advantage of? But with men getting lonelier year on year, the desperation must grow stronger and stronger. You can't fix it with law, it will only make the behaviour more covert. There's too many grey areas. We've seen those women who hop from guy to guy, sleeping with him now and again and never paying rent or bills or working until the guy gets tired and she finds a new one, while the guy next door loses a shift at his job and has to sleep on the street. We already know women control the majority of spending, buy houses earlier etc. despite technically, in a reported sense, making less than men. It should be no wonder how. Does this not depress anyone else?