DeVille had formed a relationship with Simon on the subscription platform for two years, chatting with him regularly — often daily. She helped him bring his sexual fantasies to life but also discussed his everyday life, his hobbies, and his terminal cancer diagnosis.
“He’d request videos of us saying, ‘Fuck cancer, we love you,’” DeVille said, referring to herself and other creators Simon interacted with on the platform.
In May last year, a few months had gone by without hearing from him. DeVille searched for him on Google and found out he’d died.
I knew this article was going to be sad. But not this kind of sad. Come on! You can’t hit me with stuff like this!
Sex workers offering emotional support is an old trope, so I guess it was always part of the job. What bothers me more is AI joining the game and how widespread loneliness seems to be, especially among men.
Loneliness seems more connected to late stage capitalism to me. Individualism has been pushed too far. The quest for a glorified independancy and the monetizatization of everything is destroying social links. There are many other things that capitalist culture favor, and they’re all as damaging to socialisation and society.
Particularly in America, it’s become blatantly clear how late capitalist alienation is driving the “Loneliness Epidemic.” With “rugged individualism,” car culture, suburbanization, and the loss of third places, it’s really no wonder people are lonely. Any analysis of the “Loneliness Epidemic” that fails to incorporate capitalist alienation as the root cause feels pretty ridiculous to me at this point.
I don’t fully agree, before we were often forced into specific rather small and closed social circles, now at least in most parts of Europe people are more free to choose and build those circles for them selves. While I will agree that capitalism in it’s current form does not make it easy.
The internet lets you live a life no men in history before has ever had. Before you accepted your lot in life that you lived and died in your own little village within your respective social cultural boundaries. The internet lets men interact with women they would otherwise never have a chance of even being in the same room with in real life.
On the flip side of the same coin it has given men illusions that such rigid social cultural customs might not exist in real life anymore either. The so called loneliness epidemic is a cognitive dissonance between the real and virtual worlds.
That conception of life both in an agrarian society or Neolithic society is itself a myth.
The “so called” loneliness epidemic is that lots of people are lonely.
The explanations for it vary, but I guarantee any truthful explanation will not be so poetically digestable.
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The article mentions how men are having a harder time finding relationships. It’s the Andrew Tate loving, Republican a-holes that are having trouble finding women, everyone else is fine.
Men, if your struggling with the ladies, start respecting women and don’t take away their rights and they will like you alot more.
There’s a lot more to successfully finding and maintaining romantic relationships with women (or anyone else) than showing bare minimum levels of respect, and assuming otherwise is both counterproductive and offensive.
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This is some hateful and reductive bullshit.
