‘I love women’: I love fucking women, I love profiting off women, I love abusing women
994 words, 7 minute readLouis Theroux describes the relationship between manosphere podcasters and OF models as ‘symbiotic’ in his new Netflix documentary ‘Inside The Manosphere’. Besides the obvious hypocrisy behind this working relationship, I want to recentre the women who I feel have been overlooked in both the discussion around Theroux’s manosphere documentary, and in the space itself, by exploring how this ‘symbiotic relationship’ blatantly exposes the violent and misogynistic nature of mainstream online pornography.
The format of a manosphere podcast is always the same; man aims to humiliate his female guests through a torrent of verbal abuse and misogynistic talking points. The ‘content’ functions to degrade women, and yet the whole concept would crumble without the active participation of their female guests. The host, although venerated within these online spaces, plays a secondary role; he serves to antagonise the female participants, but it’s their responses that trigger engagement. After all, a man ranting about his hatred of women from inside a vacuum is considerably less satisfying than spectating the abuse in real time. To quote Louis Theroux in his recent Netflix documentary ‘Inside The Manosphere’, the humiliation is the point (Chloa 2026). When introducing the female panel on the ‘Fresh and Fit’ podcast, Myron Gains asks the women, some as young as eighteen, about their body counts and whether they are on birth control. To each response, the live chat reacts accordingly; they shame promiscuity, label those with low body counts as liars and call the OF girls disgusting or stupid. Akin to a modern-day scolds bridal, the chat salivates at the blatant misogyny, misinformation and manufactured degradation.
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I never quite understood why any woman would agree to sit around those tables. At best, most of the guests look bored to death, and at worst, participating feels masochistic. Yet, week after week, ‘Fresh and Fit’ and ‘Whatever’ podcasts fill their chairs. The only plausible conclusion is that enduring the verbal abuse is financially worthwhile. The majority of the guests who appear in this type of content are OF (OnlyFans) models or adult content creators, and are participating to promote their online platforms. The proceeds of this promotion can be seen after a quick scroll through the TikTok or Instagram comments of a recent guest, as men migrate from these podcasts and onto their platforms. None of this is new information, nor do I find it particularly shocking. Man hates woman, but wants to enjoy her flesh; a tale as old as sexual violence. But when a steady stream of women are actively promoting themselves to an audience that publicly degrades them, the broader implications of this contradiction cannot be dismissed.
What type of pornography does a man who enjoys watching women get verbally abused bi-weekly consume? That was the question I asked myself as I scrolled through the social media of some OF content creators who have recently appeared on either of the above-mentioned podcasts, or in online content with looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular. Naively, I thought the OF models who advertise themselves using the manosphere would produce extreme content. After all, when the promotional material involves an onslaught of orchestrated humiliation, I was expecting the product to retain that level of vitriol. On the contrary, nothing I saw during my search was particularly shocking or beyond what would be considered ‘mainstream’, and that is, perhaps, even more alarming. To put it succinctly, our societal baseline for ‘normal’ pornographic content is being readily consumed by men who actively hate women.
In retrospect, this conclusion is obvious. Having grown up in the era of readily accessible online pornography, I can still recall the first explicit content I saw from Pornhub’s trending videos as a teenager. Significantly, I didn’t remember finding it erotic or intriguing, only deeply distressing. The manosphere's ideal woman is docile, susceptible to abuse and readily available for sex; the average woman in pornography presents as such; she is submissive, enjoys being slapped, choked and aggressively penetrated; she is young, non-threatening and irrelevant outside of the viewer's sexual desire. The link is obvious once the farce of traditional gender roles is dropped. The mainstreaming of this derogatory scripting has cultivated an environment where the avid manosphere viewer, who has just watched a panel of OF content creators be humiliated for hours on end (the average ‘Whatever’ podcast streams for over 8 hours), can equate viewing her explicit content to a final act of domination. The visceral reaction I had to watching mainstream pornography for the first time shouldn’t be dismissed, as it highlights how desensitised we have become to the abuse of women within a sexual setting.
We have begun to acknowledge the effects that growing up alongside this material has had on a whole generation. The Online Safety Act 2023 places the onus on adult websites to age-protect their content, and online porn depicting choking is set to be made illegal. But preventing children from accessing pornographic material, and banning the widespread dissemination of content with strangulation which ‘research shows…is never a safe practice’ as it can ‘cause changes to the fragile structures of the brain’, feels like clearing a low bar (Vinter, 2025). The entrenched scripting for pornographic material revolves around female subjugation, and until that changes, banning a singular violent action will not equalise the industry, nor disengage the misogynistic viewer.
‘I love women’, manosphere influencers Myron Gaines and Justin Waller assert to the camera . Their blatant hypocrisy is irrelevant because in this context ‘love’ has morphed into a proxy for domination, coercion and control. It is through this compartmentalisation that Myron can claim to ‘love women’ while publicly belittling them; he loves fucking women, he loves monetising the female body, and he loves how powerful degrading her makes him feel. The consequences of this mentality have been ingrained within mainstream online pornography for some time; all the ‘symbiotic relationship’ between manosphere podcaster and OF model does is highlight this misogynistic dynamic outside the safety of an incognito browser and paywall.
References
Chloa, Adrian, dir. 2026. Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere. Netflix.
Vinter, Robyn. 2025. “Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK.” The Guardian, November 3, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/pornography-depicting-strangulation-to-become-criminal-offence-in-the-uk.