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Originally Posted by vesavius

I would actually say that it's a form of grooming and the emotional exploitation of lonely old men.

People don't always want what is in their own best interests, some times they are suffering from a type of addiction, other times they actually believe the groomer and think there might actually be a future in it. By the time they find out there isn't ofc they have often lost a LOT of money.

Anyhow, all that aside, surely we must agree that this kind of 'employment' is pretty below what most women are capable of being and that in an ideal world they would be aspiring to be more than online groomers for cash?

Is really the ideal end goal of feminism?

Yeah romance scams have skyrocketed in recent years and this doesn't seem too far from it. You see it on dating apps a lot where loads of profiles are basically just designed to trap people into giving money or buying someone things without getting anything in return. Sure there might be a few rich people who are very clear eyed that there is nothing in it for them, their only purpose is to fund a pretty young woman's lifestyle (although why that would ever be an appealing notion I don't know). But there are probably many more who think there will be some meaning attached to it and not realise how purely transactional and empty the connection is