Current Events > Straight men are turning to OF to find emotional connection

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i'm sure that will help them

They might trick themselves into thinking it's a connection, but they're talking to paid employees or robots

It's definitely unhealthy but the question is, which is more unhealthy, these parasocial one or not experiencing them at all?

They might trick themselves into thinking it's a connection, but they're talking to paid employees or robots

Yeah if there was like a guarantee it was the celebrity running it and answering messages instead of likely ChatGPT or an assistant I'd have a tiny bit more understanding

It's just so likely you're donating money with zero actual interaction

Oh look, it's the usual porn panic just reflavoured for modern times.

Enclave how much have you spent so far?

$0

So if 60% men below 30 are single but only 30% women are, of the same age group. Then that means the women are dating older men.

But if there are roughly equal amount of men and women on the planet. Then whats happening to the older women, like the women in their 30s-40s.

Unless this is like the golden era for chads who are fucking like 3 chicks each.

Oh look, it's the usual porn panic just reflavoured for modern times.

So if 60% men below 30 are single but only 30% women are, of the same age group. Then that means the women are dating older men.

But if there are roughly equal amount of men and women on the planet. Then whats happening to the older women, like the women in their 30s-40s.

Unless this is like the golden era for chads who are fucking like 3 chicks each.

Not sure how you could possibly interpret that from the article.

Are you joking? Men are lonely, men are seeking connections

I wonder if this is better or worse than when men would go to strip clubs for the same reason.

Are they not lonely and seeking connections?

I'm just saying that this is nothing new, it's a different twist on the same ole porn panic we've always had. Shit's exhausting.

You're saying this percentage of this demographic is nothing new?

How did they do the polling, what areas did they poll, without actually looking at the polling data it's hard to draw any kind of real conclusion but that's something news articles rarely care about because a scare mongering article gets more clicks and generates more interactions.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand single Americans, from their romantic goals to their experiences with online dating. This survey was conducted among 6,034 U.S. adults from July 5-17, 2022. This included 4,996 respondents from the Centers American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. It also included an oversample of 1,038 respondents from Ipsos KnowledgePanel who indicated that they are lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), with oversampled groups weighted back to reflect proportions in the population. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATPs methodology.
Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults are combined because of small sample sizes. Additionally, since this research is focused on sexual orientation, not gender identity, and due to the fact that the transgender population in the U.S. is very small, transgender respondents are not identified separately. Read the full online dating report for more details.

"They can go to Pornhub and get naked people and sexual videos," Rae Richmond, another content creator, said. "They don't come to OF for that. They come to OF to make a connection with the creator."

This is pointedly not about porn.

Fairly small sample size,

The idea that "Oh no, men are finding it hard to make real connections because of porn thing!" is an old as hell thing to bring up.

it's not a real problem though in wider society.

Trying to get in to a meaningful relationship with a creator (who is probably already in a relationship with someone), alongside 20,000 other hopefuls... you'd have better luck talking to someone at random out on the street.

Yeah I know what it's like to be lonely but this... this ain't it. I wouldn't even pay for sex, so I don't understand these people paying for merely pixels on a screen, not even the actual person being in front of them.

eh, I know a guy who uses clapper app. it isnt actually any stranger than the strip club. Its safer for introverts (male or female).

some of the women actually phone him and enjoy his humor, but hes too shy to facetime them. He might have given in and lost money, lol.

hes not losing anything if hes gaining affection he cant find elsewhere.

They might trick themselves into thinking it's a connection, but they're talking to paid employees or robots