There exists a post-woke world where physical contact is becoming the exception and digital intimacy our only posthuman recourse. This paper will constitute a return to Freud for the 21st

century contrasting it with Lacan’s return in the 20th. Assisted by Baudrillard’s use of the hyperreal to understand simulation, this paper will contrast modern nudism with the OnlyFans online platform to discuss where the erotic still persists, and whilst one can be seen as liberation simulated with repression of desire, OnlyFans is the obscene simulated where the new erotic lives.

OnlyFans is a platform for age-verified commodified selves; a predetermined fetishized intimacy discussing nakedness as taboo but a Vegan-dependent interactive fiction of the flesh. This paper will propose that a return to intimacy is not gained through a simulated nudism but rather through an increased fetishization of the digital erotic. A closeness of para-social acceptance.

A lifecycle of intimacy, is followed by boredom, break up or death, fetishized objects then shall form dark nostalgia, searched and coveted objects as evidence of a past, coveted ashes, bookmarked books, or unfinished crosswords – the everlasting echo-fetish.

A discussion of Freud’s Totem and Taboo will be templated in the elucidation of the contrasting taboo of nakedness on the beach, with the totemic meal of online erotic indulgence which will become our new original sin, a return in more ways than one.