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The demand for such sites demonstrates that loneliness is a "pandemic" of sorts. YMMV


Many sex workers know that half their job is sympathetic and selfless companionship. When someone takes a hint from irl and merges sex and companionship into one ai bot, today’s screen-addicted kids will look just fine in comparison.


In Madmen don draper visits an escort, but you can see that a big part of it is to get the tenderness in response to his own vulnerability that he cannot get from his wife who demands a fake-plastic perfect life. (and Don is no help in that situation either btw)


> lonliness is a "pandemic" of sorts

It sure is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/10...


2017. Extra notable that this happened before governmental enforced loneliness.




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