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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025

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Hard disagree. Sex has to be really bad before I would prefer to just crank my hog.

Even in that case, you can easily satisfy yourself using hookers. According to quick AI search the prices ranges from $20 per hour for street hookers to around $150 for average escort to $300 plus for high end hooker in USA. For a price of your average car lease, any single male can have a different hooker every week, getting his body count to triple digits easily thus matching any redpilled macho. And we are not even talking about sex tourism, where you are a cheap flight away to some 3rd world country where you can enjoy orgies for really cheap.

The OP's point of course still stands - even if you satisfy your sexual desire, there is still the social aspect that many people fill parasocial relationships. Although even those are not the only options. There are hookers who act more like your lovers where you are something like a sugar daddy. They have stable clientele of multiple men with their own schedule, so you can visit regularly and get not only a sex but also massage or even homecooked meal.

To be frank I find this as highly distasteful and unsatisfying relationship but I used it only as an example. In the end there is not much more difference between people obsessed with sexual conquests or people who obsesses about masturbation or people who just chase hookers. The difference is only in degree.

Even in that case, you can easily satisfy yourself using hookers. According to quick AI search the prices ranges from $20 per hour for street hookers to around $150 for average escort to $300 plus for high end hooker in USA.

This fails to "price in" the associated legal risks — reputational damage, arrest, fines, jail time.

Whoa, at those rates, degeneracy sounds alright! I thought the average escort was like $500 judging by what Backdoor Backpage or whatever the hooker website is called, and then on that site, they were all covered in piercings and tattoos or were unshaven and all had descriptions about discovering themselves or something. Somehow your $150 average number sounds wrong, though.

That's very high. In germany in a legal bordello it’s 50-100 euros for half an hour.

Outside very limited areas, there's no such legal thing in the US. Though of course grey and black markets exist. But the prices there must be higher, to account for the risks. Probably not an order of magnitude higher, but still higher.

According to quick AI search the prices ranges from

This is like saying "source: I made it up" except you asked a computer to make it up for you.

So give me your sources. The AI gave me Gitnux and 2date4 love or Worldmetrics as sources. I don't want to research that stupid shit too deeply, if you have other numbers just send it. The point still stands, sex is relatively easy to purchase for almost any single male.

If the AI was searching then it's about as valuable as searching it yourself, which is how everyone learns everything now.

If they had AI guess with no search grounding, then yeah, that's useless

This is not true. AI search is not programmed to be critical of sources, so it becomes a pure garbage in garbage out situation.

On heavily SEOed queries, AI search is in fact much much worse than just asking the AI directly. In August 2025 I will not touch "grounded" AI with a 10 foot pole it's dogshit.

This guy asked AI for a "grounded" query and the AI happily cited a fake scam website front and center.

I just read that whole comment thread, very interesting.

It's been a few years (sad) since I grew anything and I forgot how awful the SEO was in the plant space, holy shit lmao.

The basil article was an infinite rabbit hole of AI basil articles linking to AI basil articles.

I don't think most humans are much better at detecting SEO slop, but that's not a very high bar.

Personally, I find AI search quite useful (both personally and at work) but I mostly use it as a results aggregator. I check the links it finds me, especially at work, my biggest fear is to confidently present something that turns out to be an AI hallucination.

So it's pretty great for that, it's basically like having an intern who Googles things for me, and I pick the results to look at in more detail personally.

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