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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?

OP posts:
KareninsGirl · 07/11/2013 18:17

Your partner is in the room when you are performing for strangers on cam, sunflower? Really? Why? What does he get from that? Do you think it makes what you do more palatable?

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:18

Also once images are on the net, you have no control of where they are shared. A punter could take a screenshot and post it on a site that lots of UK men access.

Think of all those teenage girls who share a photo privately of themselves, and then it gets shared or put on the net. This is really the adult equivalent.

And sorry, you are very naive if you think no one will ever find out.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:22

No one really cares. There's that many generic girls with their tits out on the web it would take some dedication to find one you recognise.

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:25

Nobody will be looking for her. But you really think if a man spotted his next door neighbour on the web cam he wouldnt care? He at the very least would find it hilarious.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:26

He's the one trawling webcam sites, it's an immoral stalemate.

KareninsGirl · 07/11/2013 18:26

A moral compass basically means knowing the difference between right and wrong ethically, morally and socially.

Hth.

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:27

And remember people who later become well known, have had earlier experiences of appearing in pornography exposed in the newspapers. And this would apply to youyr DCs too. You really think if a DC later became an MP, that newspapers wouldn't be interested in this?

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:28

Quid - Loads of men feel no shame at all about watching women on web cams. But they would be quick to tell their mates if they spotted a local woman they knew.

Sunflower49 · 07/11/2013 18:30

Karinsgirl yes he is.
Why?Because I cam from the living room and think it would be a bit unfair of me to go and make him stand in the kitchen, or go upstairs each time I got a show.
Do I think it makes what I do more palatable?To who?Him?Or other people.

To him, he couldn't care less.
To others, I couldn't care less.

KareninsGirl · 07/11/2013 18:32

And be doesn't mind strangers telling you what to do to 'get them off' and you obliging? Really?

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:35

They really wouldn't.

There's a thousand parts of my life I wouldn't want plastered in the papers. I've trusted people with some of my deepest, darkest secrets. I could be outed in a range of ways for a multitude of things. The two guys I had at once, the room full of people I snorted lines of coke with, the ex I told about my secret lesbian romps, that girl, the friend I went swimming with and wet myself, the boy who dared me to steal a mars bar from the local shop... the list is endless, as I'm sure it is for some people. Any one of those things may bite me in the bum at some point and make a mildly interesting headline.

But chances are they won't.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:37

And loads of women do it and feel no shame.

Should we?

I don't broadcast it but that doesn't mean I'm ashamed.

Lazysuzanne · 07/11/2013 18:39

I think of it as more of a personal belief system, since very few issues concerning morality are black and white or set in stone.

It's no wonder many people have strong feelings about this sort of thing, the problem is that the arguments used to justify the feelings rarely stand up to dispassionate scrutiny.

Lazysuzanne · 07/11/2013 18:41

It's one thing to say I don't like it I wouldn't do it, but quite another to say I don't like it therefore anyone who does it has no self respect and lacks a moral compass.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:42

My moral compass must have got lost in the post.

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:43

Do what you want quid. Just don't tell other women it is easy and there is no risk of being exposed.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:44

Did I say that?

To be fair it's not particularly difficult.

Grennie · 07/11/2013 18:45

It can be emotionally difficult for many women. Sometimes not at the time. But in retrospect.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 18:45

In what way?

Sunflower49 · 07/11/2013 18:49

Karins no. If he minded I doubt we would have ever got together in the first place. Also I doubt he would let me do it in the sitting room whilst he watches TV/mucks about online/whatever he may be doing,if he minded even a tiny little bit.
Actually sorry, he does mind a tiny bit-because he gets annoyed that we'll be having a conversation and then all of a sudden I stop and start talking to someone else to do with my work. But I think he lives with it. :)

It cannot be a newsflash to you that not everybody feels the same way as you, about these things. Or about anything really. Not everyone feels or thinks the same, people are different.[Veryobviousstatement].

MistAllChuckingFrighty · 07/11/2013 18:56

Does anyone remember the thread posted by the woman whose lovely partner and his lovely mates were calling at some poor woman's house and attempting to publically out her because they reckoned they recognised her from some sort of sex site ?

It happens.

Joysmum · 07/11/2013 18:58

Doesn't bother me but I wouldn't do it in case it impacts on my nearest and dearest.

Lazysuzanne · 07/11/2013 19:00

Planes crash but people still fly, because they are capable of evaluating the risks and making a decision about whether to proceed

ImperialBlether · 07/11/2013 19:05

I don't like the blokes who look at those sites, but worse by far are the blokes who happily go about their lives knowing their wives are on the sites. Surely to god a decent man would be able to think of other ways to earn money than strangers looking at his wife's body.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 07/11/2013 19:08

What? What a blizzard analogy/pointless point.

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