Increments

#66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)

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What do you get when you mix nerds and sex research? A deep dive into the world of fetish statistics, men's calibration about women's sexual preferences, and the crazy underground world of financial domination. Stay tuned as Aella walks the boys through the world of gangbangs, camming, OnlyFans, escorting, findom, and even live-tests Vaden's wild hypothesis against her huge, thick, dataset.

We discuss
  • How to describe what Aella does
  • Aella's bangin' birthday party
  • The state of sex research
  • Conservative and neo-trad pushback and whether Aella is immune from cancellation
  • Are men calibrated when it comes to predicting women's sexual preferences?
  • The wild world of findom (financial domination)
  • Is findom addiction worse than other addictions?
  • Differences between camming and OnlyFans
  • Can a fetish ever be considered self-harm?
  • Plus some live hypothesis testing! Does Vaden's hypothesis survive...?
  • Aella's forthcoming journal based on Rationalist principles
    • References from the ep
    • Aella's good at sex series
    • Aella's website
    • Aella's blogpost on Fetish Tabooness vs Popularity
    • "I spent $3,400 in a single day on financial domination": financial-domination addict James
      • Clip starts at 12:25
      • Findom Addicts Anonymous
      • Fetlife bans Findom
      • Domme won't let me quit (unethical), addicted to findom, please help | Reddit
      • I don't feel bad for subs that are addicted to findom.
        • Findom References

        (additional sources used for episode prep that weren't mention in the episode)

        • Random Men Pay My Bills | BBC Podcast
        • Interview with a Recovering Paypig - A Financial Domination Addict
        • FINDOM is not FEMDOM
        • Confessions of a 'Pay Pig': Why I Give Away Money to Dominant Women I Meet Online
        • Special Episode on Findoms... | The Kink Perspective Podcast
        • She Gets Paid Just to Humiliate Her Fans | New York Times
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