Originally posted by sexforhealth at 22-7-2023 12:16
Seen a lot of comments qualities gone down since covid, prices gone up, selection gone down.
Thoughts on why this is happening and the future of punting scene?
TLDR: We the consumers as a whole are responsible for a large part of this. Yes, there is inflation and the general increase in the standard of living but we consumers willingly pay more for less and pay for lesser quality rather than vote with our money by refusing to pay for less than what we want.
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We the consumers (as a group) are responsible for the decrease in quality and selection and the increase in pricing.
Consumer's willingness to pay subscriptions on platforms such as OnlyFans and others allow "models" to make the same or more money as they would for an in person meet. Given that the model can leverage his/her likeness why would they ever want to meet in person? Of course, only the top tier in looks and/or acting will generate large income so it is the less attractive and the starfishes that will need to meet in person to supplement their incomes.
This bring us to the second fault, consumer's will still patronize models that do not meet expectations. How many times do we read about how the models ad was highly photoshopped but the consumer still proceed with the session? How often have we done it ourselves. The justification being "all models/agents photoshop their ads". Models and agents know this so there is little to no incentive for them to change their practices. On the other had if consumers let the big head do the thinking and voted with their money then there is a chance that the quality (attractiveness and performance) of the models would improve.
Inflation is a thing so I am not going to lay the total cost increase at the feet of consumers but our willingness to overpay or pay more for less contributes to the cost increase as well. Think of the consumers that willingly overpay a model thinking "oh, I'll get better service next time." or "She'll remember me/give me preferential treatment." or any number of other justifications to pay over the standard rate. While these may be effective individual strategies they do drive up costs for everyone as the models normalize to the increased payments. Then there is the example of when I first started visiting models in Thailand there were an abundance of "high quality" models that were willing/happy to enter into long term contracts. In recent times I find it difficult to even find a model that will agree to a long term engagement and those that do want significantly more than what inflation would suggest is appropriate. The models all seem happy with short term engagements.
