Some adult OnlyFans creators target niche audiences to boost their success, but this targeting can cause those audiences to feel a manufactured and often misleading sense of connection.
OnlyFans is a platform known for its creator/audience relationships. Its model allows consumers to message creators and pay for exclusive content. The idea of intimacy is a factor that drives people to watch and chat with adult content creators. “People want to be seen and understood. It’s no surprise that those feelings of loneliness are what often bring people to pornography.”Drug, F. T. N. (2024, October 2). OnlyFans “Chatter” deception. Fight the New Drug. https://dev.fightthenewdrug.org/onlyfans-chatter-deception/Copy Niche pornographic categories can create an even greater sense of exclusivity.
Tiffany Wisconsin’s nursing home tour
OnlyFans creator Tiffany Wisconsin, 36, is carving out one such niche by creating content with older men. Through this niche, her fame has skyrocketed.
In this Daily Mail article, Tiffany reveals that she goes to nursing homes searching for men to star in her videos. “‘They’re experienced and they take their time with me and they actually value the time we share together, ’”Peterson, J. (2025, February 28). OnlyFans star, 36, tours nursing homes to find elderly men to appear in her X-rated videos. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14444887/OnlyFans-star-36-tours-nursing-homes-elderly-men-appear-X-rated-videos.htmlCopy she told the Daily Mail. She goes on to say that she prefers older men to guys her age and believes her nursing home tour will be “quite lucrative” for her OnlyFans.Peterson, J. (2025, February 28). OnlyFans star, 36, tours nursing homes to find elderly men to appear in her X-rated videos. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14444887/OnlyFans-star-36-tours-nursing-homes-elderly-men-appear-X-rated-videos.htmlCopy Daily Mail also points out that “Tiffany also said that she prefers not to work with other male OnlyFans stars, and instead likes to stick to her niche of elderly porn.”Peterson, J. (2025, February 28). OnlyFans star, 36, tours nursing homes to find elderly men to appear in her X-rated videos. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14444887/OnlyFans-star-36-tours-nursing-homes-elderly-men-appear-X-rated-videos.htmlCopy
Unfortunately, this manufactured intimacy can normalize parasocial relationships.
Parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationships are one-sided, with a consumer feeling deeply connected to a celebrity or content creator. People may feel a strong sense of intimacy. However, those feelings are not reciprocated. It is a psychological bond that is not based on reality. Viewing pornography and chatting with creators can create this type of connection: a partial relationship. Niche categories further drive this idea of exclusivity – of intimacy.
In a guest article by Dr. Angie Henderson, who would interview men arrested for buying sex, she says, “Regardless of how soon we get there, we hear over and over one word: loneliness.”Peterson, J. (2025, February 28). OnlyFans star, 36, tours nursing homes to find elderly men to appear in her X-rated videos. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14444887/OnlyFans-star-36-tours-nursing-homes-elderly-men-appear-X-rated-videos.htmlCopy Loneliness is an epidemic. We all crave deep relationships because we are human. But watching porn is not going to give you what you crave. In fact, “Those who viewed pornography were more likely to experience loneliness, and those who were experiencing loneliness were more likely to view pornography.”https://dev.fightthenewdrug.org/study-reveals-how-porn-fuels-cycles-of-loneliness-in-consumers/ Copy
Indulging in niche porn and chatting with OnlyFans creators is not going to cure your loneliness. If anything, it is a band-aid slapped onto a gunshot wound, trying to heal a much bigger problem.
Standing up for true intimacy
Real relationships are worth fighting for. You might see a phrase around Fight The New Drug: “Reject all counterfeits.” We say this because we believe authentic human connection is more significant than any manufactured relationship. We believe in fighting for genuine intimacy; in struggling for real love.
“Porn can’t fight for you, it can’t look after you, and it won’t make you appreciate the little things in life.”https://dev.fightthenewdrug.org/why-love-is-better-than-porn/ Copy Porn leaves you feeling ashamed. It tells you that temporary pleasure is more important than those around you. What porn has to offer is a fake, cheap love at best. “On the flip side, love offers companionship, friendship, and a close bond that no porn can rival.”https://dev.fightthenewdrug.org/why-love-is-better-than-porn/ Copy This companionship pushes you to be a better person, to be healthy. Pornography is a disease, slowly sapping away your strength.
Take a stand today to reject all counterfeits. Push away misleading and manufactured parasocial relationships. Choose the real thing.
Choose love, not porn.
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Most kids today are exposed to porn by the age of 12. By the time they’re teenagers, 75% of boys and 70% of girls have already viewed itRobb, M.B., & Mann, S. (2023). Teens and pornography. San Francisco, CA: Common Sense.Copy —often before they’ve had a single healthy conversation about it.
Even more concerning: over half of boys and nearly 40% of girls believe porn is a realistic depiction of sexMartellozzo, E., Monaghan, A., Adler, J. R., Davidson, J., Leyva, R., & Horvath, M. A. H. (2016). “I wasn’t sure it was normal to watch it”: A quantitative and qualitative examination of the impact of online pornography on the values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of children and young people. Middlesex University, NSPCC, & Office of the Children’s Commissioner.Copy . And among teens who have seen porn, more than 79% of teens use it to learn how to have sexRobb, M.B., & Mann, S. (2023). Teens and pornography. San Francisco, CA: Common Sense.Copy . That means millions of young people are getting sex ed from violent, degrading content, which becomes their baseline understanding of intimacy. Out of the most popular porn, 33%-88% of videos contain physical aggression and nonconsensual violence-related themesFritz, N., Malic, V., Paul, B., & Zhou, Y. (2020). A descriptive analysis of the types, targets, and relative frequency of aggression in mainstream pornography. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(8), 3041-3053. doi:10.1007/s10508-020-01773-0Copy Bridges et al., 2010, “Aggression and Sexual Behavior in Best-Selling Pornography Videos: A Content Analysis,” Violence Against Women.Copy .
From increasing rates of loneliness, depression, and self-doubt, to distorted views of sex, reduced relationship satisfaction, and riskier sexual behavior among teens, porn is impacting individuals, relationships, and society worldwideFight the New Drug. (2024, May). Get the Facts (Series of web articles). Fight the New Drug.Copy .
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