Yesterday’s post had me angsty with not having played recently. For me it’s mainly a sense of frustration. For sex workers the current situation is obviously a much more serious one. Daddy An Li was featured in a KQED recent article talking about how she’s been dealing with it. I was kind of surprised to read this comment…
Also, An Li said many of her clients are older men. “They’re a little bit more reticent to learning online skills,” she said. “Which is fine. At some point, they’re going to have to learn depending on how long this quarantine situation goes on for.”
That a lot of her clients are older men isn’t surprising, but the lack of online skills certainly is. Isn’t everyone savvy with skyping, zooming and messaging these days? Even my parents – both in their mid-70’s – can set-up video conferencing now, and that’s just to chat about gardening and the weather. I’d assume the idea of a kinky online session with An Li would be far more motivating to a frustrated older gentleman client.
This image is from this blog post where An Li talks about some of the options she offers during the present coronavirus crisis. You can also follow her on twitter.
Oh yes -anyone in their 70’s now was only in their 40’s when personal computers first appeared. Sadly older people are dismissed as having grown up before the first world war and know nothing about modern tech *sigh* .
It always makes me laugh when people in the US talk about old people as the great generation that fought WWII. I mean there are still some people from that era around, but they’re all 90+ by now. Most of the older third of the population were born in the 50’s and 60’s.
Doing tech support for my parents does drive me slightly nuts, but at the same time I am pretty impressed with their ability to pick this stuff up. My Mother never really used a computer until she was in her 50’s. Now she’s mastered how to use a smart phone in her 70’s.
-paltego