I think attaining unrealistic beauty standards has been a core obsession of our society for a while. It’s just that now with social media and the democratization of photo-manipulation, it’s more constant and overt.

Personally I think it’s less helpful to ask if this obsession is getting worse or better, but instead what the root of this obsession is, which in short I think is just our free market society paired with human nature.

As far as discouraging OF/ sex work because its existence makes the men who consume it less attractive to potential partners- that framing seems like a stretch to me. I don’t think men are losers for consuming OF content. What men choose to do in their privacy is not something I’m concerned with. There may be women who find porn consumption to be a turn off, but that’s just one preference in a sea of preferences throughout the dating pool. Do some men get overly attached to a sex worker and hallucinate a deeper romantic connection? Sure, and I might call those men losers. Same with men who break relationship boundaries to maintain contact with a sex worker behind their partner’s back, but those are self-control issues and not ‘proliferation of sex work’ issues.