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To be considering webcam work?

362 replies

AnneNonimous · 08/09/2013 17:08

Haven't even name changed...eeeek

I am slowly trying to start my own business. Slowly because I don't have enough money, don't yet have enough equipment and am a lone parent.

I have seriously been considering taking up online webcam work to earn extra money to buy the equipment I need.

I have checked out a few websites, you can block certain countries from seeing you so nobody I know would have to find out! Getting undressed is not necessary and infact banned on some sites outside of 'private shows' and I could do it as and when I want (ie when DS is in bed)

Have I completely lost my mind or does it make sense?

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MistAllChuckingFrighty · 14/11/2013 13:05

Yes, of course he was joking. Blokes joke about how women are here solely for the sexual entertainment of men all the time. And we are supposed to just laugh along with it.

KareninsGirl · 14/11/2013 16:46

Quite!

chinley · 14/11/2013 18:11

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MistAllChuckingFrighty · 14/11/2013 20:36

I agree, chinley, that deleted post was pretty hysterical. Good job it's gone now, wouldn't want to frighten the horses.

Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 20:57

Supposed to laugh at it, is that where I have been going wrong all the times I laugh.

Chinley I agree with all you say.

And yes the paedophilia thing is laughable.

KareninsGirl · 14/11/2013 21:03

Considering you didn't see the deleted post, sunflower, it seems bad form to pass comment on whether you think it was something to be laughted at or not.

I have never suggested cam girls encourage paedophilia.

My point is, and always has been, that women who choose to do this kind of work reinforce to men that we can be bought and ordered about.

I am perfectly entitled to feel unhappy about that and voice my views.

Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 21:07

I wasn't passing comment on that. I was passing comment on the note that there are things we're 'supposed' to laugh at things.

I wasn't aiming the paedophilia comment, at you.

You are. Just as I am entitled to disagree and do whateve type of work I want.
For the record, I have never been 'ordered about' by men,on cam or otherwise.

Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 21:08

Apologies for messing that sentence up (that second 'at things' I have no idea how it got there).

KareninsGirl · 14/11/2013 21:08

So, the fact that men might ask you to pose in a certain way or take off an item of clothing, for example, is not ordering you to do something in exchange for money?

Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 21:23

Karins, have you ever seen any camshow I have ever done?

You do know that camgirls don't all do the same things, and that we are able to define what we will and won't do, in our shows?

If I take off an item of clothing, I can make the decision myself you do realise that?

You seem to really be confused about what a camshow is like.

I don't sit there and some guy chucks me £2 and says 'take off your bra!!' so I do.

If I work in a restaurant and my male boss asks me to clear a table, a man is ordering me to do something in exchange for money. Same if I'm a secretary and he asks me to pick up the telephone. Same if I am a forensic scientist and my boss asks me to write up a report or collect some information on a case for him.

KareninsGirl · 14/11/2013 21:37

Not really the same though., is it? If you are titilating a stranger on webcam for money it is incomparable to being asked by your boss to write a report.

chinley · 14/11/2013 22:00

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MistAllChuckingFrighty · 14/11/2013 22:02

Chinley, do you think the men that are paying see it that way ?

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Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 22:05

You typed ''ordering you to do something in exchange for money''.

I do not let men order me to do anything. They can ASK, but not order.

The 'titilating a stranger on webcam for money'is confusing, do you mean that I do this purposely, and then I receive payment for it?

Because that is not the same as being ordered. If I did that, it would be of my own accord.

Can I ask, what exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Do you think you'll make me quit my job and go and get work somewhere else?

As you already stated anyway, I am educated, experienced in many types of work, and have made an informed decision to be a camgirl.

Your arguments are red herrings. You will never see the point of stance I come from.

If you actually do not want to see my views genuinely, the only other reason I can think you're asking is because you think a stranger from an internet forum can make an informed individual who has done cam work and many other types of work, decide to quit the job which suits her and her family.

It isn't going to happen, I apologise.

Sunflower49 · 14/11/2013 22:07

And yes I have refused many requests :)

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vikic1989 · 14/07/2014 01:33

What companies did your friend work for ? I'm looking into it but don't know what company to trust as I'm all new to it. Advice would be greatful,

CarryOn90 · 14/07/2014 08:19

OP, what about phone sex?

Totally anonymous, and channel 4 did a documentary about it which I think is on 4od at the moment.

ScouseBird8364 · 14/07/2014 08:40

Can somebody who's done this work tell me which site to go with, and which fetish do you choose? I mean, on the programme last night, there were girls who just sat on balloons or threw baked beans all over themselves etc?! so do you choose a category and then perform to your clients as to what fetish is in that category???

Spacegal · 14/07/2014 10:12

I'd like to know as well about webcam work that doesn't involve stripping off. Prog last night involved someone putting banana on their feet for money lol. I only caught some of the prog but def looked like not many had to get that sexy to earn money. Wondering if anyone will reply tho' as practicularly all the discussions are a yr old lol.

MummyOf2AmazingBoys · 22/07/2014 00:51

I've been thinking about this my self but can't find any website I don't want to do nude. Does anyone know any websites

happyLaala · 22/07/2014 23:14

Hey ladies! new to this site so please bare with... i am also interested in this work have danced before and although it was okay the hours were awful and sometimes just broke even after childcare. could anyone give me any advice ? any at all and any good sites as alot out there look abit iffy ? thanks x

happyzapper · 23/07/2014 08:55

I understand why you want to do it but i cant say anything as i dont really know ehy you cant use other opyions

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