Capitalism Killed Intimacy and Replaced It With PornHub
With our communities destroyed and our growing distance from each other, we humans of late capitalism are left with a deficit of intimacy and affection.

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When in October 2018, comedian Ryan Creamer decided to start a PornHub channel and publish a series of very wholesome videos onto the infamous adult content website, he did not expect fame to follow.
As the twenty-six-year-old CollegeHumor writer explained to BuzzFeed, videos like ”I Tuck You in After You Have Cum” and “I Blow You a Platonic Kiss” were a bit for his “own amusement.” The point was simply to draw laughs by reversing the usual porn formula that portrays nearly immediate, often hard-core, fucking, but neglects the more real and human elements of sex — the awkward, the affectionate, and the intimate.
Unintentionally, Creamer tapped into something not only funny, but actually yearned for by online porn consumers (which is to say, pretty much everyone) worldwide.