[delfinom]

>view themselves as shameful and romance as transactional

No, you can thank social media algorithms on YouTube and TikTok pushing "influencers" like Tate.

They get fed a stream of essentially shitbag instruction videos and individuals trying to be a "role model". They specifically garner audiences of young men.

porn on the other hand has been around even for us millennials and older, we turned out fine. What we didn't have was the Tiktok and Youtube algorithms.