A 2025 YouTube monologue (by Nick Stumbo) criticizing the "freemium" pornography business model. The speaker argues that while large amounts of porn appear "free" to users, they are designed to funnel people toward paid sexual content; because performers are paid, the speaker frames those paid sexual interactions as coercive and raises ethical doubts about transactional sex where sex occurs only in exchange for money.
The whole model that's been operating for quite some time now, this freemium pornography model, where vast quantities of pornography are free, but that's all to entice the user to come in deeper, to engage in the paid material. That's right. So, you know, these people aren't doing it for free, they're doing it for money. And that money is coercive. Ask yourself, would this person be having sex with you in person? Would this person only have sex with you if you paid for it? If that. The answer is yes, the only way they would ever have sex with you is because you paid them, then that's coercive.
