Brian Gordon

The sooner we can get these guys sex robots, the sooner we'll all be better off. And safer.

"Inside the Incels Who Rent Girlfriends is an intense one-to-one with T, a British 27-year-old with a good job, who over the past eight years has spent £50,000 renting girlfriends. He is completely open about what he wants: a girlfriend who always says yes.

‘You never know whether they’re acting’: my encounter with the man who spent £50,000 renting girlfriends
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/18/inside-the-incels-who-rent-girlfriends-zandland-ben-zand-interview

#incel #collapse

‘You never know whether they’re acting’: my encounter with the man who spent £50,000 renting girlfriends

A new documentary delves into the phenomenon of men who pay women to role-play their romantic partners. The masked 27-year-old at its heart, and director Ben Zand, tell all

The Guardian
Mar 19 at 2:09amMastodon for Android
Show threadRuth O'Day5d ago

@elasticsoul

Instead of "renting girlfriends" can't they just say "paid a sex worker"?

Show threadRooktallon5d ago
@AdaraAstin @RuthODay2 Depends on the state you're in I reckon. Virginia is quite illegal to do this.
Show threadRuth O'Day5d ago

@Rooktallon @AdaraAstin

It is illegal to report that someone paid a sex worker?

Show threadRooktallon5d ago
@RuthODay2 @AdaraAstin No, It's illegal to seek the services of a sex worker. AKA, you can't have sex for money in Virginia as it's illegal.
Show threadRuth O'Day5d ago

@Rooktallon @AdaraAstin

It's still illegal if you report it as "renting a girlfriend".

Show threadRooktallon5d ago
@RuthODay2 @AdaraAstin I mean, probably. I guess the only way you could do it is if you were indirectly giving someone something for money rather than actual money, such as gifts and the like. This state is weird. Honestly, they should just legalize sex work in all 50 states and have done with it; Less traffic problems that way plus sex work isn't a terrible thing. I always said that if I'm twenty-eight and haven't had sex yet, I'm going to Vegas because there's no way in hell I'm about to be a thirty-year-old virgin.