Maitland Ward Pens 'Daily Beast' Column About Online Intimacy

Maitland Ward Pens 'Daily Beast' Column About Online Intimacy

LOS ANGELES — Maitland Ward has written a column for The Daily Beast about online sex and intimacy after almost a year of pandemic-related isolation.

The article, titled “Guys Are Paying Porn Stars Big Money Just to Flirt During COVID,” was published today.

“We should be thankful that we live now and not in 1918, when the last pandemic hit,” wrote the multi XBIZ Award-winning star, noting that “there were no televisions or computers then; no live cam shows or subscription sites where you can watch people have sex in surround sound and high definition. No Skype or Zoom — or tokens to purchase for a name shoutout and a titty bounce.”

“Think about it,” Ward added. “When our great-grandparents were wanking it, they hadn’t seen a well-choreographed gang-bang, or a piledrive, and I’m sure they didn’t know a girl could squirt. What a limited world to live in without that font of knowledge.”

“We now look to sex, and sex workers, for connection and intimacy — and most surprisingly, humanity," she said.

She explained that a fan had told her, “Don’t take your clothes off” when requesting a custom video on her premium fan site.

“I had heard it all when it came to these requests, but a demand for full clothing was new,” Ward wrote. “‘Just dress up nice, unbutton the top of your blouse so I can see bra lace and pretend we’re flirting at the bar.’ He also specified the name of the bar, which is one he often frequented in the before-time, and also where he was the night the world shut down.”

“That casual intimacy had become the taboo, the illicit,” Ward concluded. “They wanted to feel what it was like to be on a date again. To touch a stranger. To be unmasked. And porn was the only way to do it.”

To read the full article, visit TheDailyBeast.com.

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