I am sorry I insist but this is a very important topic that should be discussed. It has to do with different kind of adult consumers and generally how people perceive sex working.
Consider football fans who watch a Champions League game from TV, then other fans who pay the ticket to be in the field. Mind fans who support only one team and who will cheer, cry or laugh about it and other hardcore ones who will follow their favorite team abroad and will buy lots of relative memorabilia. Aren't they all football consumers? Is it logical to be emotional for 11 strangers who kick a ball in a grass field? Are those who pay more idiots or pathetic? They don't get anything in return, not even a sole sec of attention. So why they still do it?
Consider a night club with a strip-tease show. There are spectators who just enjoy the show from a distance and others who sit in front of the stage and start spreading bucks to certain dancers. Finally, there are others who pay a bit more to enjoy a private session with them. Aren't they all clients? Is it logical to spend money for a private dance when they know that it's all part of a show and they aren't even allowed to touch her? So why they still do it?
And coming into porn, there are people who just watch general porn from free tubes, others who have subscriptions to certain porn sites and others who subscribe to private pornstar accounts and pay to watch cam shows. Finally, there are the ones who will send gifts to their favorite pornstars and buy personal items from them? Aren't all porn consumers? Are the last ones so pathetic, especially when they already know this is her job and they can't expect too much from her?
The answer to all of these is very simple. Because they just FEEL like it. They REWARD the performance, the feeling or even the fantasy itself. The certain team, the certain artist, the certain adult model made them feel nice in one way or another so they reward her. Now, do some of these customers are trying to buy attention? Perhaps they do. That is not wrong either. Maybe attention is what they need, after all.
And this is exactly where I think the adult artist talent lies these days. To CREATE fantasies, emotions, thrills, feelings not only with her sensual performances in the adult flicks but also in a more personal level through her virtual interaction with her customers. Sometimes she even needs to be a little bit psychologist to a certain level of course. This is all part of her job. Plus, I said it before and I will say it again, these "idiots" money is keeping many many known adult models still active today. Because today the models get more money from collateral income sources than porn itself. This is a fact! So, I think it is quite unfair to condemn and characterize a certain category of consumers as idiots or pathetic just because they are more expressive, more generous with adult models or see them and treat them differently, in the good sense, than us.