Rich, bored and isolated: Why Texas oil country loves OnlyFans

(houstonchronicle.com)

23 points | by mooreds a day ago ago

20 comments

  • TRiG_Ireland a day ago ago

    OnlyFans isn't just about erotic content. Porn is available elsewhere, cheaper. The platform really is designed to push parasocial relationships. I think it's probably less healthy (for the consumer) than normal porn.

    (Possibly less healthy for the performer, too, but it's hard to balance that against the problems performers often have in exploitative studios.)

    • chickenimprint 17 hours ago ago

      Messages to clients are presumably handled by the agency, not the performer.

  • pingou a day ago ago

    Is OnlyFans spending also correlated with lower education (when adjusting for income)?

    • Bender a day ago ago

      [flagged]

      • newsclues a day ago ago

        Plenty of low education jobs that are hard work and dirty or dangerous, pay really well. Garbage collection, construction and oil rigging pay well, lots of people can’t or won’t do these jobs.

        • Bender a day ago ago

          Plenty of low education jobs that are hard work and dirty or dangerous, pay really well. Garbage collection, construction and oil rigging pay well, lots of people can’t or won’t do these jobs.

          I agree entirely. I wanted to see if HN would say something nice about such people instead of being smug academics. You are proof there is at least one good and decent person here.

  • mooreds a day ago ago
  • sybercecurity a day ago ago

    It seems the question has been answered in the headline.

    • pimlottc a day ago ago

      It’s a statement, not a question. “Why does Texas oil country love OnlyFans” would be a question.

    • alephnerd a day ago ago

      "Daddy horny Michael" -Jeffery Tambor

  • mrlonglong a day ago ago

    Rich, bored and perverted.

    • Ylpertnodi 17 hours ago ago

      Ah, rich, bored, and not your jam.

  • ducktastic a day ago ago

    I am not a consumer of adult content though I used to be. I firmly believe adult content will be outlawed in the near future

    • yakikka a day ago ago

      Outlawed by who, where? There are always places that will outlaw things but it now serves a lot of them to use it as an excuse to ID Internet users.

      • pixl97 a day ago ago

        The people that are doing it to monitor the internet do have a schism with their voter base.

        The groups that get Republicans in primaries tend to be heavily conservative/Christian, then they get voted in because they have an R next to their name. The voters may not even agree with most of the things said politician says, but it has turned into a performative act by that point.

        And that's how you get porn users to ban porn.

        Much like get got farmers to vote against their best interests.

        • amanaplanacanal a day ago ago

          Farmers voted for more farm welfare.

          • pixl97 5 hours ago ago

            And received massive losses due to changes in trade.

          • RealityVoid a day ago ago

            Gasp! But... That would be communism. I thought that is unacceptable.

    • dzonga a day ago ago

      they've already started banning it e.g via ID laws

      same as gambling.

      these things are like swings - go back & forth throughout history.

      what's interesting me to me is how quickly the mood went from a very liberal approach to things to very conservative within 20 years

      • pathartl a day ago ago

        Gambling? Gambling is more widely available and celebrated than it ever has been. Its regulations have been eroding faster than water through sand.