Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

The Carol Markowitz show now airs Wednesdays and Fridays.

So you can get this non-political podcast, the Carol Markowitz show on Wednesday and Friday,

and then normally the political podcast I co-host with Mary Catherine Ham every Tuesday and Thursday.

You only don't get me on Mondays.

Last episode, I talked about the Lily Phillips story out of the UK.

She's in only fans' personality, let's call her, who had sex with 101 men in one day. A lot has been said about

her, but I talked about the loneliness of the men who would participate in such a thing, and I ended

up writing about it for the New York Post in yesterday's paper as well. I wrote, the lore of only fans is it offers a false sense of intimacy.

Instead of scrolling through porn as a means to an end, a man who pays an only fan's model

gets to feel like he knows the object of his desire. The woman can paywall some of their

content to make it exclusive for

certain subscribers, and these private interactions are the draw. They establish a feeling of connection,

of intimacy, even when none exists. Fans can pay to text message with the models, or even talk to

them. A phone call with Phillips costs 100 British pounds a minute.

Pay even more and she'll make customized content using her benefactor's name. Why would any man pay so

much for a few minutes of conversation with a pretty girl? The answer, because many are overwhelmingly

unbearably alone."

To put a finer point on it, the sensation of only fans is similar to a guy who leaves a strip

club convinced that the stripper likes him.

He's put himself into a position to get fleeced and not just for the usual price of a night out at a gentleman's

club. If you have a friend, for example, who tells you the stripper likes him, you'll know that she

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