Posted August 11, Reviewed by Tyler Woods. OnlyFans, as you may know, is an online platform for sexually explicit content. It has as many as million users, and much of its success has been attributed to the sense of connection the subscription-based model gave consumers during the pandemic.
Generally speaking, men tend to consume more pornography compared to women, and there is emerging evidence that men are at the center of a larger, loneliness epidemic.
Data from the Pew Research Center indicate that 63 percent of men under 30 are single by choice, compared to 51 percent in Some experts blame social media and porn for this decline in connection. Given that OnlyFans represents the intersection of the two, it would make sense that lonely, single men would be driving the company's success. It is a convenient theory. The only problem? The opposite seems to be true.
A majority of OnlyFans subscribers are married men, so the platform may be less an antidote to loneliness and more of a fidelity cheat code. After surveying men and women ages 18 to 71, researchers found that subscribers, on average, were 63 percent male, 68 percent white, and 89 percent married βwith 59 percent of users identifying as heterosexual and 37 percent identifying as bi or pansexual.
According to another Gallup survey from , 17 percent of bisexual people marry someone of the opposite sex, compared to 1 percent who enter same-sex marriages. Whether or not couples are open about it, it is less shocking that a large cross-section of hetero-passing couples identify as bi or pansexual. Another recent study delivered similar results: When researchers analyzed the responses of OnlyFans subscribers, of whom 53 percent identified as male, 45 percent as female, and 0.
