The joy girl opens her breasts, covers her pubic mound; Enkidu demands his maturity, touches him closely with his body. The girl throws the dress aside: they collapse naked, with trembling knees. He teaches him about black lust, the pleasure of a woman's lap... - Epic of Gilgamesh

The phenomenon is eternal

The phenomenon of sacred, religion-related prostitution could already be found in ancient cultures, and although the sacred content has now disappeared, the phenomenon itself remains - in every age, demand produces its supply according to its own needs. comes from the Latin verb prostere According to the generally accepted definition, a prostitute is someone who provides sexual services for a fee, regardless of whether a woman or a man offers herself as a product. With the spread of the Internet, the sight of teenagers burying themselves in their smartphones on the streetcar, the full online arrangement of Christmas shopping, or just doing research work from the desk has become a commonplace phenomenon. Therefore, we should not be surprised if the virtual space, with all its advantages and disadvantages, plays an increasingly important role in satisfying sexual needs.

Local or global?

Roughly twenty years ago, with the advent of webcams, the sex industry also took advantage of the new opportunity offered by technical development. The IT market opened a window to the global space, and prostitution also claimed a share of its benefits. The live, webcam, interactive sex service is essentially an online representation of the offline world. But the decisive difference is that while street prostitutes in the most vulnerable position, and even the best-earning call-girls, can suffer physical atrocities, physical contact never takes place in the virtual world. This not only prevents a hearty beating, but also the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and mental trauma caused by abuse.

The fingerprint of loneliness in virtual space

But there is another difference that draws a sharp line between offline and online existence, and this is none other than the fatally bleak loneliness of modern Western man. In this world, the customer dictates, if you pay, you can become whoever you want. Without a face, you can feel brave and strong even if in reality you are a coward and a coward, with a fictional personality working on the other side of the webcam with an occasional employee - who uses his own face and body, but also a created personality - he can be anyone he wants to be and can say anything whatever you want about yourself. For a quarter of an hour, half an hour, or as long as your credit card allows, you can become whoever you want; there are no venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, no bad breath, body odor, or disappointment - it's true, there's no flesh-and-blood partner either. Just lonely fingerprints stuck to the keyboard.

Variations and background

Nowadays, there are countless service providers that offer live, interactive sex, but most of them cheat the guests and use very clever solutions to cover up the fraud. The point would be to broadcast the live image, but in many cases they still work with recorded clips and the customers do not immediately realize that what they are seeing is far from happening in real time. A blogger recently got tired of researching seventy-eight platforms that promise webcam sex, but his experiment ended with devastating results - he found only five providers that actually delivered what they promised. The customer buys credits, which act as a kind of online currency and can be converted into time units, i.e. minutes. The purchase page of some service providers is IP-sensitive, i.e. it detects the country from which the customer has logged in, and will pay accordingly in the currency of that country.

We also inquired with one of the above-mentioned five service providers about what a person who wishes to act as a model should do for them. The Model Support employee answered our questions immediately and extremely willingly, he said that the girl category is the most popular with them and that with a properly turbocharged profile and stable online time you can earn good money very quickly. To our question about the extreme service, he answered that it is not prohibited, there is a commitment list on the page of each model, on which you can tick off what you are willing to do and present at the request of customers. If the guest wants something that is not on the list, the service provider provides protection. We no longer asked why the girls and boys working as prostitutes are called models, it certainly would not have been politically correct to inquire about this. But if the more modern half of the world calls cleaners hygiene management assistants and loader workers material handling specialists, then prostitutes can also be called models.

Stella

Stella - we use this name in the interview at her request - is a twenty-three-year-old Romanian model who was available to us for a half-hour conversation on one of the already mentioned platforms. He was the fifth one we tried to get him to talk to us instead of having sex. Of course, the credits were ticking in the meantime, the price of which he will also share. According to his profile, he speaks English and Italian well - English indeed -, he likes movies, partying and registered in hardcore After all, who doesn't love movies, right?

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Are you really going to college?

I do, and although many people claim the same about themselves, in most cases it is not true. The most important thing in this job is to elicit sympathy from the paying customer.

Why, a waitress doesn't elicit the same sympathy as a college student?

It's not just about the university here! If you go to such a site, you will find that everyone has one parent who is dead or dying, the other is an alcoholic, or is in prison, and in the midst of such difficult circumstances, a young girl is alone taking care of her minor siblings, her sick grandmother, and besides, she is also going to university also goes

So do you talk to clients? This doesn't come out, can't they see through you?

They want to believe that they are helping a young girl with a difficult fate. Many times the clients themselves encourage me to learn and believe in myself, because I am meant to do more than online whoring. Of course not everyone, there are clients with whom I did not have any meaningful conversation other than greeting them and listening to their instructions. But I don't live off them.

So who do you live off?

I think many people think that the majority of men come here for sex, but I find that this is not always true, many people want nothing more than to talk to a nice girl with sparkling eyes, young, ideally blessed with a good sense of humor , they can share their family and work problems with him, or even report on their current successes.

So why don't they go to a chat site, why a platform selling sex?

However, you can still chat with girls in lace underwear here, and even if the client doesn't want hardcore pornographic content, he might want to see this and that, he wants some virtual touches.

That's all?

I wouldn't generalize that that's all, I've had several clients who were happy to chat with me for fifteen to twenty minutes as foreplay, depending on how much money they had, but mostly the aids come out and I almost always take off my panties. I am in the nude category, the minimum requirement of which is to masturbate, but using an aid, for example, is no longer mandatory. But there are also girls and boys who are willing to participate in much more extreme things, if you know what I mean.

I understand. Do you always have a happy ending, or is it also a charade and it is enough if only the customer is "happy"?

The customer always sees that he is happy and that makes him satisfied.

You dodge the answer…

It's a job, the point is not to make me happy, but to provide something that will make him log in again tomorrow or next week, buy credits and enter my virtual room.

When did you start?

As soon as I turned eighteen, I registered on one of the best-known and oldest sites.

Did you load it?

Yes, I really uploaded it, I had to upload it, because in order for anyone to work on such a platform, they have to go through a very serious registration process, the first step of which is to upload a picture of an identity document.

Does it work like this on every page? Have you heard of one where this rule is not taken so strictly?

I cannot comment on all sides, but I am aware that some platforms did not take the protection of minors seriously, and they disappeared from the world wide web quite quickly. Don't be hypocritical, it's not just about protecting the models here - the platforms themselves, the service providers, are also making huge money and it's not in their interest to go against international legislation. For example, a service provider who lets a child into the camera image can very well hit the ankle, even if that child does nothing, just happens to walk into mom's room and the camera broadcasts this.

What does the service provider see, how should this be imagined?

Pretty much everything. I've had an admin initiate a conversation with me about an infraction I committed during private, paid time with a client. The customer gave me his email address, and I didn't refuse, but nodded that I had noted it. You should know that most sites prohibit any kind of contact between the client and the model outside of the platform, i.e. it is against their business interests if you bypass them and continue to contact the client you met through them. But it is also important to note that the service provider pays particular attention to the safety of the models, and by definition they cannot undertake this during a personal contact. For example, any recording that the customer makes during the interaction and possibly makes it public on the Internet may have legal consequences, because these contents are the property of the service provider. So you asked what they see. Everything.

Have you already talked about registration and admin - how does it work, what is the background, what does the service provider provide?

It is increasingly common that they are available online 24 hours a day. Registrations, technical questions related to the site, possible irregularities, abuses, and threats on the site are handled by real people almost immediately.

Approximately how many people do you need for this?

Look, during the busiest periods, say from early evening to dawn, the more serious sites can have up to ten thousand models online.

This is serious?

Of course, because there is traffic from all over the world, from both models and clients, so when the transvestite from the Philippines gives a show to the French banker, at the same time the Russian university student tells about his family to the father of three from Texas. There was an example when the site's camera images became unavailable during a peak traffic period, you can guess that all models and customers stormed the customer service at the same time. I'm not saying that I didn't have to wait for the admin to log in, but I received the information within a few minutes.

Still, how many people does that assume?

I think roughly twenty to thirty people can work during one shift.

Where do clients and models typically come from?

The models are mainly from poorer countries, there are many from South America, especially from Colombia, but there are also many models from the Philippines and Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian models, they are the powerhouses of the webcam . And the customers give the other half of this, from America and Western Europe. From where the money is.

The hermaphrodite model you mentioned earlier. What else, what about the boys?

There are not only single model accounts, but also couples and groups, so everything can be found on the site. And of course, there are boys too - alone, in pairs, in groups. Perhaps I am not saying anything new when I say that male models are not sought after by women, but almost exclusively by male guests. I started working in a studio five years ago, which means that there were several smaller rooms in a large apartment and the owner provided the necessary equipment, accessories, underwear, internet, camera - everything needed for this work in each room. Boys also worked here, one of whom I had a close relationship with.

Was he a gay boy?

No, you don't have to be gay to satisfy gay men online, and often not even in real life.

What does a straight guy have to do in front of the camera to be wanted by gay men?

Really rough stuff. To put it plastically, it is not enough for a boy to masturbate with a happy ending, he must also step into the role of the passive party.

Dare I ask more?

If I say carrot, eggplant, banana, is that enough? I know of a case where a male model injured himself at the client's request and was unable to work for weeks afterwards. A girl can still work if she has her period, although she can't show blood in the camera image, but she can provide sexual content in other ways, but a boy's options are much more limited. .

What is the gender ratio in this genre?

Eighty-five to fifteen percent in favor of girls. Women pay a boy only in the rarest of cases, this is also true offline, female clients are mostly looking for girls who advertise themselves as lesbians. The demand for boys is simply lower and, accordingly, they do not earn as well as girls. There are many Eskimos, few seals, i.e. there is an oversupply of boys.

How much do you earn and how much does the average earn?

I think my earnings are average, at the beginning I spent sixteen to eighteen hours online and earned half as much as I do now, working five to six hours a day. I won't tell you how much I earn, but I'm buying a house soon and I won't have a loan on it.

When you get the house, will you stop?

I don't know yet, I think not. I don't really see what other than that would give such an income.

And the university?

It's just a piece of paper.

If it's just a piece of paper, why finish it?

Social expectation.

It is. Of course - I end the conversation, but Stella is already laughing at this.

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