Can paid for relationships-as-a-service fulfil our very human desire to connect?
Today I look at China's "dream girls" who fall in love with video game characters - and they pay cosplayers to impersonate the objects (subjects?) of their desires in “real” life. I also look at investments big VC firms in the west are making in paid for semi-online relationship services.
This goes way beyond Only Fans and its normalisation (let’s face it, when we are OK with an online sex trading platform advertising itself as a student “career opportunity” at prestigious American college open weeks, we have de facto agreed we’re cool with buying and selling bodies, whether we’ve officially legalised it or not) of "nice girl" (girlfriend?) of low-touch prostitution
It begs the questions - can priced relationships for sale ever compare to earned, priceless ones?
Will dream girls and boys fill the hole in your soul?
Have you explored relationship-as-a-service services - as a client, a suppler or an investor?
Is getting your credit card rejected more palatable than getting your heart broken?
Does this trend make you feel uncomfortable?
Read more:
The lucrative business of loneliness as a service :
The economics of Only Fans :
When your sexbot leaves you on read :
Women without men :
Dream girls and their “boys” : https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1012605
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