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[mdwest]

Im going to guess thats because a large majority of those 1.2M women between 18-24 look like...

lots of players.. but very few fans..

not everyone is built for high volume sales..

 

[rookhawk]

Im going to guess thats because a large majority of those 1.2M women between 18-24 look like...

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lots of players.. but very few fans..

not everyone is built for high volume sales..

I do not disagree with you whatsoever. I'm just pointing out that our society is reliant on two things: 1.) More people, and 2.) People that are statistically raised in two-parent households.

Prior sex work is not indicative of future suitability as a spouse to achieve points 1 and 2 above.

A lot of people in these younger generations are seeking inappropriate attention from the wrong men.

This is going to have serious problems not just in the dating and relationship world, but also I believe in the realm of military conscription, patriotism, and other elements that require sacrifice from young men. Young men aren't going to give their lives and their health to civil defense or dangerous jobs for the sake of their families when there are no families.

During the era of the Titanic and again as recently as WW2/Korea/Vietnam, young men were willing to give their lives for Family in the trappings of God & Country. I don't know any young men that will give up their lives for the stereotype in the photo shared above.

Pay attention to the decadence of the younger people, they will be stewards for our nation in our elderly years.

 

[cwpayton]

Those Epstein files?When do you think Trump will release them ?

Much of the world as I imagine most of America would find their content fascinating.

They will not be released,if you find them fascinating,?, I suggest you study up on LBJ ,or nero of Rome , OR jimmy Swaggaart, or JFK.

 

[Brent in Az]

One thing ive noticed that seems to be all the rage with the younger generation, and particularly women, is to tattoo themselves all over.
The thought of having sex with someone that looks like something out of a comic book is a huge turn off for me.
Wait until they are 60 and the skin changes and sags, and it's nothing but a big walking blob of ink
I saw some random YouTube video of some young woman with tattoo's on her neck and face. Some of which were Satanic symbols.
She was crying about the fact that nobody would give her a job.
Stupid much?

 

[cwpayton]

Like his university transcripts and medical record proving his 4F military draft ineligability that Trump promised to release, the Epstien files will never see the light of day.

Now Trump claims he will obstruct construction of the DC football stadium if they don't change their name back to Redskins. Whaaaat? Is he nuts? Like he thinks he can wave a wand and make Canada a US state. Doesn't he know only Congress can create states? Of course he doesn't know. Doesn't know even basic shit about how the US govt works. Says he'll run for a third term. Anybody with a government job, even a janitor, knows the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms. Hell, any kid with a high school diploma should know that. Or any kid with a sixth grade education should know drinking disinfectant will be fatal. As usual Trump doesn't have a clue. Personally, I think the name changing was silly but that's the ball clubs' business. Trump is a businessman. He should know it's a business's choice how they decide to describe themselves. Would he want the government telling him he should be renaming Trump company? Or breaking government contractual obligations to enforce the name change? The guy is an idiot or off his rocker or both. It's time some responsible people in government took a hard look at the 22nd Amendment. But sadly there's probably not much chance of making that work as Trump has packed the Cabinet with people just as zany and stupid as he is (e.g. Kennedy and Bondi). Why should we doubt Trump sent that email to Epstein? We've all heard the tape recording of his disgusting sexist "locker room talk" interview with the reporter. His crass devaluing women is old news. He blew that off and the Stormy Daniels payoff so why not blow this off? Republicans don't care. He could cover himself in dog shit and dance nude down Pennsylvania Ave and they'd still be waving their MAGA flags. Bind as earthworms. And just as smart.

WHAT DOES make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ,HAVE TO DO WITH EPSTIEN FILES OR THE REDSKINS ?

 

[deewayne2003]

Pursuant to the stats on prior pages that I believe are obsolete, here's a recent one that is absolutely dumbfounding, yet suggests the cultural shift underfoot:

It is estimated that 1.2 million women between the ages of 18 and 24 have OnlyFans accounts in the United States. This figure represents approximately 1 in 10 women in that age range.
Yep, we have a generation of young women where 10% of their demographic are involved in sex work.

Onlyfans paid out over $5 billion dollars last year.
But 80% of creators made less then $150 a month.

Yeah, living in Austin the Only Fans and "Sugar baby" culture and participation rate was rather shocking; however I will offer that is more of financial motivation factor than an attention seeking element.

Consider this.....

In 1980 the minimum wage was $3.10hr, when you adjust for inflation you need to make $18.00hr in 2025 to have the same purchasing power; and who is making $18.00hr? Mainly they are 24yo with a college degree and student loan debt.

So back in 1980 if you were 16yo and working the drive through at McDonalds you had the same purchasing power as a 24yo with a college degree today, only the average 24yo today in 2025 has student debt to contend with.

I continue to hear the elder statesmen of my area say "Nobody wants to work anymore!" and when you ask them what they are offering perspective employees it's often $13.00hr or less and they expect experience in the field.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I do not care for Trump personally, that being said not agreeing with someone politically is not a reason to declare him mentally incompetent.


Who cares? I don’t see how being friends with Epstein some 20+ years ago is an issue. Epstein was part of the NYC social scene at that time and everyone had a connection with him.

Heck, look at Trump’s wedding guests during that time. Clintons and Democratic establishment were there and today they despise him.

Read the 22nd Amendment and the history of its unfolding. The framers actually withdrew "physically" and "mentally" from the wording. The requirement is specifically nonspecific: "incapable". This would, for example, allow the VP to step in if the president was kidnapped. But I really have to wonder how much goofier does Trump need to become before achieving the threshold for incapable? Sadly, the checks and balances aren't working at all right now so he's free to make no sense at will. If the country went to war tomorrow, Trump would have to be pushed aside. He is not capable of running a free lunch.

 

[cwpayton]

Read the 22nd Amendment and the history of its unfolding. The framers actually withdrew "physically" and "mentally" from the wording. The requirement is specifically nonspecific: "incapable". This would, for example, allow the VP to step in if the president was kidnapped. But I really have to wonder how much goofier does Trump need to become before achieving the threshold for incapable? Sadly, the checks and balances aren't working at all right now so he's free to make no sense at will. If the country went to war tomorrow, Trump would have to be pushed aside. He is not capable of running a free lunch.

When Trump cant find his way off the platform or has an assistant use the auto penn to do his work, then we'll talk, Trump doesnt give or believe in free lunches. IE the border as an example. BIDEN AND COMPANY QOUTE" the border is secure, '" I cant do anything about the border till Congress passes a bill.'" U KNOW THAT THING" speaking of the constitution." , Im the first BLACK president. " Intros his wife as president.

 

[fourfive8]

Read the 22nd Amendment and the history of its unfolding. The framers actually withdrew "physically" and "mentally" from the wording. The requirement is specifically nonspecific: "incapable". This would, for example, allow the VP to step in if the president was kidnapped. But I really have to wonder how much goofier does Trump need to become before achieving the threshold for incapable? Sadly, the checks and balances aren't working at all right now so he's free to make no sense at will. If the country went to war tomorrow, Trump would have to be pushed aside. He is not capable of running a free lunch.

And Biden didn’t? WTH?

 

[Ontario Hunter]

If your I.Q. is low enough that you believe all of this, maybe you should stop watching what Rush Limbaugh called the "Drive by Media".

Not fake news. It's straight from what he put up on his Truth social media. His words. Nobody is making it up. I'm not sure anyone could make it up. The guy spews nonsense constantly. And it's clearly him writing the stuff. His sixth grade articulation is impossible to imitate (though the late night show hosts and comedians can make it a close run thing).

 

[RLD]

Pursuant to the stats on prior pages that I believe are obsolete, here's a recent one that is absolutely dumbfounding, yet suggests the cultural shift underfoot:

It is estimated that 1.2 million women between the ages of 18 and 24 have OnlyFans accounts in the United States. This figure represents approximately 1 in 10 women in that age range.
Yep, we have a generation of young women where 10% of their demographic are involved in sex work.

Onlyfans paid out over $5 billion dollars last year.
But 80% of creators made less then $150 a month.

I think that number was built on weak foundations. Here is one look at where it came from and why it might be quite high.

Are 1.4 million American women using OnlyFans? What we know

OnlyFans is an online content-sharing platform that can be used for any kind of content but is particularly popular among sex workers.

www.newsweek.com

I think the better estimate is the 2% figure going around. But it is a brave new world.

One has to wonder if all these young people watching sex, means they are not doing it as much:

"Just 30% of teenagers surveyed by the CDC in 2021 said that they had ever had sex, down from 54% two decades prior. This could be a good thing, as evidenced by our decimated teen pregnancy rate, if it didn’t reverberate against other positive social development. Barely half of Gen Z teenagers studied by the Survey Center on American Life reported ever having a boyfriend or girlfriend, and more than a third of poll respondents in indigo-blue California aged 18 through 30 reported having zero sexual partners in the past year."

 

[rookhawk]

Yeah, living in Austin the Only Fans and "Sugar baby" culture and participation rate was rather shocking; however I will offer that is more of financial motivation factor than an attention seeking element.

Consider this.....

In 1980 the minimum wage was $3.10hr, when you adjust for inflation you need to make $18.00hr in 2025 to have the same purchasing power; and who is making $18.00hr? Mainly they are 24yo with a college degree and student loan debt.

So back in 1980 if you were 16yo and working the drive through at McDonalds you had the same purchasing power as a 24yo with a college degree today, only the average 24yo today in 2025 has student debt to contend with.

I continue to hear the elder statesmen of my area say "Nobody wants to work anymore!" and when you ask them what they are offering perspective employees it's often $13.00hr or less and they expect experience in the field.

I don't find that logic to support causation "cuz they're broke". The reason being, you cannot believe how much women of all age groups spend on health and beauty to "be attractive to men". 80% of the Only Fans sex workers on their site make less than $150 per month according to the organization. Not to be graphic, but their tech, toys, and getups cost them more than the revenue produced, therefore its not plausible they are into this because they're making enough to cover their debts you reference. I think they are attention seeking in a societally destructive way.

Any common sense man knows they are making themselves unmarriable through their bad decision making and they are doing it for under $150 a month.

Chris Rock had a comedic bit that sums up my opinion on dads clearly. Dad's have one job, keep your daughters off the stripper poles. Fairly quaint, folksy advice from the 1990s that aged pretty well.

 

[fourfive8]

DNI turns on the light. Kind of fun watching the cockroaches scramble

 

[Brent in Az]

DNI turns on the light. Kind of fun watching the cockroaches scramble

Since Gabbards announcement, I bet the cockroaches are scrambling to delete and destroy personal files and communications that they may have.

 

[Ray B]

My guess is that @Ontario Hunter should spend a little less effort celebrating the passage of the 21st amendment prior to posting.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Like his university transcripts and medical record proving his 4F military draft ineligability that Trump promised to release, the Epstien files will never see the light of day.

Now Trump claims he will obstruct construction of the DC football stadium if they don't change their name back to Redskins. Whaaaat? Is he nuts? Like he thinks he can wave a wand and make Canada a US state. Doesn't he know only Congress can create states? Of course he doesn't know. Doesn't know even basic shit about how the US govt works. Says he'll run for a third term. Anybody with a government job, even a janitor, knows the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms. Hell, any kid with a high school diploma should know that. Or any kid with a sixth grade education should know drinking disinfectant will be fatal. As usual Trump doesn't have a clue. Personally, I think the name changing was silly but that's the ball clubs' business. Trump is a businessman. He should know it's a business's choice how they decide to describe themselves. Would he want the government telling him he should be renaming Trump company? Or breaking government contractual obligations to enforce the name change? The guy is an idiot or off his rocker or both. It's time some responsible people in government took a hard look at the 22nd Amendment. But sadly there's probably not much chance of making that work as Trump has packed the Cabinet with people just as zany and stupid as he is (e.g. Kennedy and Bondi). Why should we doubt Trump sent that email to Epstein? We've all heard the tape recording of his disgusting sexist "locker room talk" interview with the reporter. His crass devaluing women is old news. He blew that off and the Stormy Daniels payoff so why not blow this off? Republicans don't care. He could cover himself in dog shit and dance nude down Pennsylvania Ave and they'd still be waving their MAGA flags. Bind as earthworms. And just as smart.

For someone who claims to have a Phd, I'd think you could understand the concept of hyperbole. Now what were you babbling on about?

 

[deewayne2003]

I don't find that logic to support causation "cuz they're broke". The reason being, you cannot believe how much women of all age groups spend on health and beauty to "be attractive to men". 80% of the Only Fans sex workers on their site make less than $150 per month according to the organization. Not to be graphic, but their tech, toys, and getups cost them more than the revenue produced, therefore its not plausible they are into this because they're making enough to cover their debts you reference. I think they are attention seeking in a societally destructive way.

Any common sense man knows they are making themselves unmarriable through their bad decision making and they are doing it for under $150 a month.

Chris Rock had a comedic bit that sums up my opinion on dads clearly. Dad's have one job, keep your daughters off the stripper poles. Fairly quaint, folksy advice from the 1990s that aged pretty well.

That 80% making $150 or less get into it thinking it will be easy money and find the hard reality that they have to actually work at it, the girls making big money have social media managers and constantly creating content.... just like there are many more women who try stripping and drop out because it's much more work and far less glamours than they imagined.

It's seen as the easy way to get the designer bags and high end cars they believe they deserve, but reality comes out and they drop out; the same can be said for the absurdly high income women have for dating, they largely want someone making $250K plus but fail to realize the limited number of men who make that much money.

So again it's not attention seeking, it's an attempt(more often failed than not) to take the easy way out to high income; as for your Chris Rock reference; you'd be surprised how many of those sugar babies and onlyfans models come from upper middle to high income families with good parents.....

Dated one graduate student in Austin, only to find out she was a sugar baby and seeing much older men because her surgeon father wouldn't buy her the Louis Vuitton bags and the new AMG Mercedes she wanted and a large swath of her socialite sorority sisters were doing the same.

My buddy is currently dating a legitimate beauty pageant queen that went to a large state university and I brought up the sugar baby thing to her and she fervently agreed....

"Oh yeah, I'd say almost a third of my better looking sorority sisters were doing that!"

 

[Red Leg]

This is a rather pathetic story of one of the unintended consequences of the Russo/Ukraine war. The Huffman family were ordinary very conservative Christians from Texas, whose head of household spent far too much time on the bias confirmation edge of the internet. With respect to the war, it is a virtual domain heavily populated by pro-Russian bots, influencers, and propagandists. One of the propaganda messages often repeated there is that Putin and Russia are valiantly fighting against the LGBTQ plague sweeping Europe, the US, and, of course, Ukraine.

In one of the more tragic examples of non-critical thinking emerging from the conflict, Derek Huffman, the father, concluded Russia would be the ideal nation and culture in which to raise his family. For a time they chronicled their transition to the Slavic paradise on line.

Hoping to speed up the process of obtaining citizenship, Derek signed a contract with the Russian Army after being promised he would not be deployed to combat. Instead, he received the typical two-weeks of training (!!) and was deployed to the front and was assigned to an assault unit where he has subsequently vanished.

Not only is the family left without a husband and father, but they have received nothing in the way of compensation from the Russian government.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1947212481081774563

 

[Brent in Az]

Bangladesh air force jet crashes into a college in Dhaka. 19 dead, 164 injured.
Mechanical failure after takeoff. Pilot tried to steer the plane away from the population without success. Pilot was also killed.

 

[Brent in Az]

This is a rather pathetic story of one of the unintended consequences of the Russo/Ukraine war. The Huffman family were ordinary very conservative Christians from Texas, whose head of household spent far too much time on the bias confirmation edge of the internet. With respect to the war, it is a virtual domain heavily populated by pro-Russian bots, influencers, and propagandists. One of the propaganda messages often repeated there is that Putin and Russia are valiantly fighting against the LGBTQ plague sweeping Europe, the US, and, of course, Ukraine.

In one of the more tragic examples of non-critical thinking emerging from the conflict, Derek Huffman, the father, concluded Russia would be the ideal nation and culture in which to raise his family. For a time they chronicled their transition to the Slavic paradise on line.

Hoping to speed up the process of obtaining citizenship, Derek signed a contract with the Russian Army after being promised he would not be deployed to combat. Instead, he received the typical two-weeks of training (!!) and was deployed to the front and was assigned to an assault unit where he has subsequently vanished.

Not only is the family left without a husband and father, but they have received nothing in the way of compensation from the Russian government.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1947212481081774563

Those so called Russian traditional values didn't work out so well for the fool.