Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by WalterBright on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:27AM (#42642656)

A few years ago, I remember when the Olympics was hosted in Vancouver, BC. The news reported that an insane amount of free condoms was distributed to the athletes. Some lower level athletes were interviewed, and they said they knew they had zero chance of a medal, but were having the time of their lives.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by afterburner on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:52AM (#42643232)

They were also easy souvenirs to hoard.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by _rm on Thursday January 09, 2025 @07:14AM (#42644492)

I think people chose to interpret that more lasciviously than it was.

If you offer something for free, especially to people we now understand to often be quite poor, they're going to fill their suitcase with them.

Even if you are offering beer coasters for free, someone's going to fill their suitcase with them.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by benjijay on Thursday January 09, 2025 @07:58AM (#42644865)

This always gets the pearl-clutchers out of the woodwork - you're gathering a few hundred of the world's fittest people in peak performance mode in the same place for a few weeks, giving most of them a huge amount of downtime, what do you THINK is going to happen? (This is the general 'you', not YOU)

Providing free access to make sure things are happening safely is not what's 'encouraging the behaviour' here :D

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