Sign up here.įurther, multiple men I spoke to over email and DMs and phone calls talked about how their alts make them feel confident, provide instant ego boosts, and let them tap into and share fetishes and kinks in a way that feels safe. It’s also, according to many men, a secure, anonymous way to release the sexual frustration that’s built up over the pandemic. It doesn’t seem like alts are going away when things get back to normal, either. For some alts, like ACT, they change what’s normal. If anything, one of the only dangers to alts may be when they become too successful - to the point when they’re no longer secondary. It’s not unlike the same problems we see across the creator economy: expectation fatigue, clout-chasing, and burnout.