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Pornography is the most common form of sexual experience available online — so common, perhaps, that a market for rarer intimacies has emerged.
Bottles of influencer bath water sell for
$30 a jar. Some
cam models have scaled back on erotic performance because they can earn more money selling homemade cookies and hair clippings. You can even pay a stranger to gorge himself on snacks from Trader Joe’s, if that’s your thing.
For some people, such work is a full-time job; others see it as a side hustle — one where the hourly pay can be considerably higher than the going rate for, say, dog walking or bartending. Plus, it doesn’t require leaving your dorm room or apartment…
Ella says that in her first semester at Parsons, she made around $800 a week from a few different sex-work-based revenue streams, including selling photos of her feet…
Still, what’s the appeal, one may ask, of having someone pay you to count your stretch marks, or selling pictures of your phalanges to strangers?
Do note this (Average is Over!):
Becoming a successful online sex worker isn’t easy. To gain a following, freelancers have to be savvy marketers, be highly proficient in search engine optimization, know how to budget, maintain a blog, and have pretty advanced video editing and producing skills.
Mz. Kim has created courses to help people build that skill set, including “Monetizing Your Appeal Online: Content Strategies for Models”; before the pandemic, she held classes across the country. Part of her gospel is: “It’s not about starting a profile on Twitter. You have to provide something more than selfies. You have to think about: What is your core appeal?” (Next week a new class, “Investing for Sex Workers,” will go live.)
And from the comments:
Dutch first division soccer club FC Emmen just got approval to have a Sex Toy manufacturer as their shirt sponsor!
And:
“Bondage workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”
And:
There's this classic detailed guide from Aella:
https://knowingless.com/2018/11/19/...act-an-overly-analytical-guide-to-camgirling/
She even provides a formula for estimating what one's earnings will be, based on hours spent camming per week plus acumen about communications, business, and sales. And then a coefficient based on attractiveness on a scale of 1-10.
An economics thesis could probably be written about this.
And:
"PornHub says its audience is 75 percent men and 25 percent women. This comes as a surprise. Most estimates of the Internet porn audience skew more toward men, on the order of 90 percent male, 10 percent female.
I emailed PornHub asking how they came up with their gender breakdown. A spokesperson replied that the site relies on Google Analytics, a service of the giant search company that parses web traffic a zillion different ways. I use Google Analytics myself for the site I publish, GreatSexGuidance. The depth and breadth of information are astonishing—and I use only the services available for free. Sites that pay get much, much more. So I’m (almost) ready to believe that women comprise around 25 percent of PornHub’s audience." That is from Psychology Today.
And:
"Four years after hackers dumped the intimate details of 32 million Ashley Madison subscribers, criminals have revived an extortion scheme that targets people who used the dating website to cheat on their partners.
In the past two weeks, researchers have detected “several hundred” emails that threaten to air those intimate details to the world unless the former subscribers pay a hefty fee.
“I know everything about you,” one of the emails, dated January 15, says. “I even know that you ordered some … let’s call them ‘male assistance products’ online on 12/11/2018 using your account at X, a routing# 121000358 acct# [redacted] for $75 for mailing to [redacted] CA [redacted]!” The extortionist goes on to say: “If you do not act very fast your full AMadison profile and proof of it will be shared with friends, family, and online over social media—and of course your internet orders.” Oops - not that scam.
The basic scam - "According to Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, who has analyzed the 2015 leaked data,[31] Ashley Madison had over 70,000 bots sending fake female messages to male users. ... Newitz noted a clause in the terms of service which states that "many profiles are for 'amusement only'".[34]
In 2012, a former employee claimed in a lawsuit that she was requested to create thousands of fake female accounts attractive to male customers, resulting in repetitive stress injury. The case settled out of court."