“Paypigs”

The porn industry had to reinvent itself. There is enough free porn out there to fap every mickey on the planet to pulp so they started removing amateur porn citing revenge porn as the reason, creating an artificial scarcity of "home grown" content

Don’t forget the tax evasion. That impacts us all.

Never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who get insanely jealous of women making large amounts of money for old rope. If there was a slew of young men taking cash from older women, the same people would be scrambling, wondering if they could get on this gravy train.

Yet when young women do it, apparently it's immoral, exploitative and should be shut down or punitively taxed.

If someone gets their kicks off spending their money in stupid ways, then let them at it.

The gambling comparison may be somewhat apt, except that we don't outlaw gambling or punitively tax bookies. Quite the opposite in fact, bookies are laughing all the way to the bank.

Top marks for the double entendre pun at the end. I don't know how to quote and highlight on the new shite site unfortunately.

2 is nothing new - pop starts and celebrities have been doing this for generations.

That seems fairly disingenuous to me tbh seamus. I can clearly remember Watchdog and other media programmes warning women about online romance scams and instead of looking to get on the gravy train there seemed to be a fairly general consensus that scamming vulnerable lonely ladies out of their money was a bad thing.

The only difference between those romance scams and this crap is the gender (and potentially age) of the vulnerable lonely people being taken advantage of. These men are in need of help, rather than exploitation.

Look, I'm no prude and see nothing wrong with someone paying another person for sexual services whether it be sex, phonesex, webcam performances or whatever. I'm sure there can be problems with all of it but at least it's an exchange of money for services. This sort of stuff is simply taking advantage of some, usually young, guy who's so desperate for acknowledgement of his existence that he'll hand over his money just to feel that another person sees him. That's not healthy and I don't think it takes a genius to see that it's a fairly fertile ground for horrific consequences should one or more of these vulnerable young men start to realise they're being taken advantage of and seek to get "value" for their money...

Firstly I don't get why people look down on paying for entertainment. What's the net difference between a HD Sky Sport subscription, a trip to the theater or paying yer wan two towns over to get her tits out?

As to the women at it, best of luck, however for every one that's making a killing, most are not and one has potentially ruined future prospects at a young age. What I see now is Porn Hub trying to normalize this type of behavior by promoting merchandise, like tracksuit bottoms/tops/bras etc. Note not sexy lingerie though, which to me is part of the campaign, just my own thoughts, I could be wrong.

As to the allure for lads I think it's the faux connection thing. Back in the day during my last stint chasing tail I was shocked at how often women would send not just cheeky pics but explicit stuff. To quote Cutty from the Wire, "the game done changed". I must say it was far more erotic than porn. Probably due to their being an actual connection.

Its not the lad's paying I'd worry about, nor the tax free income, its the young (often teenage) Irish girls selling it I'd be worried about

I hope they understand the consequences of having intimate pictures and videos of themselves out there for all eternity.

I've often wondered, would those same girls take similar polaroid pictures of themselves and sell them outside the local nightclub??

Women's bodies are a thing of beauty, & everyone woman on the planet can make money from her body, lets face it though, would anyone of us want our teenage daughters or sisters to think their body is an option for easy cash?

I'd agree that the focus should be on helping the poor guys being taken in by the false promise of connection here rather than on castigating women for taking advantage of them tbh. It's far more likely to work. It'd be no harm to make sure that the girls getting into this type of work realise that they're torpedoing any chance they have of a professional career too though.

I'd have disagree that it's not a scam - the connection these guys think they're paying for (sub/domme) doesn't exist. At least with a traditional sex worker the client would get an experience in exchange for their money.