To be considering webcam work?

[AnneNonimous]

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?

[utreas]

YANBU £25 per hour is highly lucrative and it probably wouldn't take you long to build up the capital you need.

[AICM]

Laurie, what if the women are not poor and do it from choice as was the case with my sister?

PS Are you always patronising when people express a point of view that is different to yours? It's not a nice quality.

[MarcelineTheVampireQueen]

I must say I have thought of it in my darkest hour.

I am size 18-20, short and squat. But loads of guys get off on the fat thing!! If I could wear a mask I would consider it. Squashing or something its called

[MistAllChuckingFrighty]

why has this thread been resurrected ?

oh, wait.....

[LaurieFairyCake]

There are no women who are not poor and do it through 'choice'. Unless you have a very limited definition of 'choice'.

News flash. - Women who can economically support themselves and who have not been victims of abuse do not want to get their fanjos out for cash.

[harticus]

Why has it been resurrected?

[ShirakawaKaede]

Please do not do this. Vanessa Belmond (ex-porn star, has done webcam work) has written a good article here:

www.antipornography.org/whats-wrong-with-being-a-camgirl.html

Please at least have a look before you get into anything.

[Heartbrokenmum73]

Squashing

I could that too...

[AICM]

My sister did it for 5 months because she only at £14000 and needed £17500 to buy the Audi A1 she wanted.
I agree with every word you say about women who do it because of poverty and the vile men who abuse them. My sister was not one of these people she wanted leather seats and black alloys. She got them too.

[LaurieFairyCake]

Really?

I wonder how badly or neglected you'd have to be brought up to think selling your naked body for reasonable for some leather seats.

Tell me about your childhood

[AICM]

Err well very happy. Sorry to disappoint you.

[utreas]

Why is it abuse according to some on this thread they are very handsomely paid (£25 per hour) is a gross salary of nearly 50k and a net salary of about 38k pro-rata (I appreciate the work almost certainly can't be extended to make a full working week). Interesting form of abuse that puts you on around treble the median wage if your wage is made pro-rata.

[LaurieFairyCake]

No, to consider it you would likely to previously have been abused , have low self esteem, history of neglect, abusive relationship, poor etc.

The 'happy hooker' is a myth.

Well obviously apart from AiCms sister - which if it's remotely true she's so far in the minority that it's irrelevant.

The vast majority of women offering sexual services are previous abuse victims, current abuse victims or too poor to have any real choices.

[utreas]

Laurie- Why it seems a highly lucrative option (I thought that the people who did would be on bobbins not the sums stated on this thread tbh) that also offers flexibility surely it would be a far better option than casual work from a financial perspective.

[AICM]

I see no point in continuing any form of discussion. If your response anything that contradicts your opinion is to to say liar then then you are incapable of adult discussion. Goodbye

[LaurieFairyCake]

I didn't call you a liar - I said if it was true your sister was in
a completely irrelevant and negligible minority.

I think it's far more relevant that you didn't try to talk her out of it - not that close?

utreas - how much would you charge for folks you don't know to look at your vagina? I know their isn't enough money in the world to buy my self worth

[Heartbrokenmum73]

Laurie

I'd have to pay them to look at mine!

[LaurieFairyCake]

I'm sure you a er.... lovely genitalia heartbroken

[peggyundercrackers]

I knew 2 people who used to do this. 1 of them worked in the same place as I did and she did it part time for a while - she was really nice, she was a bit of an extrovert at times but just a normal person really - no abusive relationships, no weird childhood, parents were normal, definitely didn't have low self esteem etc etc. she didn't have a fucked up life - her view was it was easy money, she made good money out of it and eventually left work as she was earning more there part time than she did working full time in a normal job - she also thought that its only nudity, who hasn't seen a woman naked - no big deal really. like 34DD she also found it quite boring.

[Sunflower49]

I'm a webcam girl.
Yes, it can be boring.
Yes, it can pay extremely well.

Parents still together after 35 years. In a secure relationship.However, I'm not about to say yes I have zero issues and am a totally wonderful and together person, of course I'm not!Because NOBODY is. Nobody has zero issues and zero insecurities.
What I will say is I don't have self esteem issues beyond the norm, I'm pretty confident, can count on one hand the amount of people I've slept with and am happy.
I'm not judgemental and easy to criticise things I don't understand, either.

[Sunflower49]

So no, I don't think YABU.
Try it, if you don't like it-you don't have to do it again. Change your appearance (wig, glasses, different make up etc) xx

[Sunflower49]

Just read further, Laurie, I'm no zillionaire but I can assure you I'm not 'poor' by any stretch of the imagination!