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Thursday, October 10th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
I can’t say whether my changing social media habits are responsible for today’s observation, or whether it’s more about changes in the online scene. Either way, in the last year I’ve become aware of (or “met”, in a parasocial way) more online sexy-ladies than I probably did in the previous half-decade. I’m not only talking about the subscription-based erotic personalities on OnlyFans and similar sites, but also the camgirls who work through sex cam sites like Rabbits Cams and the e-girls who promote themselves and their paid-influencer personas on porn-hostile platforms as diverse as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch.
My personal discovery of the joys of TikTok coincides with my surprise at learning that all these adult performers have, essentially, found a way to beat the pornocalypse. It’s not so much that they found one weird trick to fight the algorithmic censors. No, my impression is that they’ve become fluent in non-explicit seduction and ways of communicating the destination of their proverbial “link in bio” without actually having a (probably-prohibited) actual link in their actual bio.
From what I can tell by fascinated observation, these seductive social-media entrepreneurs first make themselves attractive and then, when they’ve got a firm grip on the erotic imagination of their male viewers, they deploy a fluid mix of euphemisms and suggestive hints to help viewers understand which camsite or subscription platform to check for their more explicit content.
There are a thousand strategies for being commercially seductive without being explicit. My favorite, which appears in dozens of variations, is something I’ve dubbed the “patriarchy-bait” strategy. A pretty woman will appear, fully and casually dressed, and she’ll say something like:
Ladies, you want to keep your man happy? When he leaves for work in the morning, he should have a full lunchbox, a hot breakfast in his belly, an empty sack, and a smile on his face. Every day! It’s not that hard…
There’s really nothing for a pornocalypse algorithm to seize on. The “empty sack” is of course a reference to drained balls, and implies wakeup-sex every morning, or a blowjob; but it’s generic enough (with many possible circumlocutions) to fly under the pornocalypse radar. And it’s sweet bait for sexually-unsatisfied men, who think “Yeah, I like this girl, even if she is too good to be true” and follow her.
So that’s one way a TikTok “accountant” (euphemism for sex worker) or “mattress actress” (which implies being a porn performer or camgirl) can set her horniness hook, as it were. But then how does she reel in the customer to her subscription or cams platform of choice? More euphemisms! In a different video, she might say with a wink “I only have fans, no air conditioning.” She might just say “look for me in the usual places.” She might mention being a “corn star” and say words that rhyme with the name of the site she’s on. Again there are a thousand ways, all of which rely heavily on euphemism, something very similar to the old Cockney rhyming slang, winks, verbal nudges, and salacious hand gestures. It’s very much a finely-honed art form, and I am not an artist in that medium.
In my original 2013 post on surviving the pornocalypse, I wrote that thriving on porn-hostile social media platforms was a matter of being pushy on a diverse array of platforms and then staying agile in the face of the inevitable backlashes and bans. I wasn’t wrong, but I sure didn’t envision the amazing deftness and skill that clever adult performers would evolve!
Image credits, top to bottom: The curvy innocent with rabbit ears who is getting dubious help making a sex tape for her “OnlyStans” account is by PonehAnon. The blue-haired babe with big tits and bunny ears preparing to make some blowjob content for her channel is by Kisou. The bunny taking mirror selfies of her ample breasts is by Eltonel. The woman posing for pics under her ring light in the full Playboy Club bunny-waitress outfit is by cela/akeeeeee675. The jizzed-upon woman shooting porn in her bunny ears, stripper cuffs, and fishnet gloves is by Player1.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2021 -- by Bacchus
Cams performers need business advice just like anybody else does. However, it’s not always easy to find people who will give you the straight dope, or even the apocryphal solid dick. I know absolutely nothing whatsoever about the camming business, but I do look at a lot of hentai porn on the internet. Therefore I feel qualified (just like your typical middle-aged man who thinks he’s an expert because he started his day at a Holiday Inn Express) to offer these dubiously-useful tips:
Tip #1: Don’t Forget To Smile
No matter what’s happening to you, you’ll be more fun to watch if it looks like you’re having fun too. Unless, of course, all your highest-tipping customers are serious sadists, in which case you may want to try screaming and crying. But generally, go with the dreamy cock-drunk smile.
Tip #2: Ask For Help Getting Traffic
If you’re trying to break into the BDSM cams game and you’re scratching your head over the problem of getting traffic as a total unknown, it might be a good idea to ask your lover for help, especially if they have a good head for social media. However, you should pick your moment. For instance, it’s a terrible idea to ask them for help if you recently had a noisy blow-up and they are still grumpy about it:
Tip #3: Production Values Matter
It’s very important to make sure that your lighting is good, your face is in the frame, and the camera is at a good angle to catch all your sexy action. A helpful production partner is invaluable here, especially when you are all tied up.
Tip #4: Constantly Try New Things
If you haven’t been pegged in your ass by a mouthy dominatrix while strapped to a spanking bench, people will love watching your facial expressions while you discover for the first time what that feels like. Don’t pass up these opportunities for personal growth on camera!
Tip #5: Strive To Be “Extra”
If your faceless sugar-daddy volunteers to pierce your tongue live on camera and then chain it to your clit ring, let him do it! Your fans and patrons will appreciate you for going the extra mile to show them a good time.
Tip #6: Don’t Hog The Spotlight
Multi-performer shows are always popular. A lot of kink-themed camshows are just, you know, some girl and her outfits and her sex toys. Maybe some handcuffs or a gag. If you get a chance to get tied up properly and have filthy things done to you live on cam, don’t pass that up.
Tip #7: Cultivate Dramatic Moments
Everybody loves drama and dynamic action. Make sure it goes out over your stream. Do whatever it takes. Zap yourself with an electric toy turned all the way up. Catch your face during that exquisitely painful moment when a whole string of clothespins get ripped off your tender bits. Share that complex moment when a deeply-buried string of anal beads come out way too quickly. Be creatively dramatic, but like, with screaming and maybe a few definitely-not-forced tears.
Image credits, top to bottom: The smiling submissive with the heart locket on her collar is by Internet Slut Club. The helpless pillory babe giving a forced orgasm show is by Geknebelt. The lady in fuzzy handcuffs with the camera-savvy lesbian partner is by GGC. The raven-haired beauty having a rough time in the huge ball gag while she processes an enormous strap-on dildo pounding her bottom is by SleepyGimp. The manga pierced-tongue bondage camshow is by Onikubo Hirohisa in Hakudaku no Yami. The bondage camsex scene is by an unknown artist. The bent-over blonde having an anal-beads moment is by Heiyz.
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 -- by Bacchus
I’m so old I remember when sexy webcams were more like surveillance cameras. You didn’t really interact with the camgirls, you just paid for access to their cams and waited hopefully for them to do something sexy, which of course they routinely did, because that was the business model and they, like all of us, enjoy money. In the early days, it wasn’t even that uncommon for a camgirl to have live sex on cam with her up-for-it romantic partner who didn’t mind the online audience.
Luckily for everyone, cams performers have always been forward-looking in their adoption of tech. It did not take very long at all for some of the camgirls to figure out that having a chat channel (perhaps using IRC or ICQ) was a way to keep the customers involved, engaged, and paying. Chatting with fans and taking at least some of their lewd suggestions was a win-win for everybody.
This was not, however, the kind of free sex chat you can enjoy today when you drop into a camgirl’s room or channel. At first they would typically chat only with subscribers or pay-per-minute customers. This was before tokens or tips; the business model was understood as being more like phone sex, which by the 1990s was already a decades-old and well-understood business.
Fast forward about a quarter century and my how things have changed! Cams software is feature-rich custom stuff these days, and it’s impossible to imagine a camgirl who doesn’t have some sort of free chat channel facing the public. To be sure, the chatroom is a marketing tool first and foremost; the goal of sexy chat in the public room is to convert random looky-loos into customers. Performers vary wildly in what they’ll do or show for free, but if you’ve even spent half an hour clicking different performer profiles I guarantee you’ve seen an eyeful.
The chat channel specifically gets used as an additional enticement by performers at the top of their professional game. In a crowded “room”, chat offers a one-to-many opportunity to flirt with each person present, until one of them decides to take things private. In pursuit of that goal, a lot of camgirls get pretty wild with the free chat!
Image credits, top to bottom: The heart-eyes camgirl cutie is by MadBunny. The big-breasted slut chatting and masturbating is by Wickertop. The woman rubbing lotion on her breasts in a private show is by Freako. The carrot-top with huge honkers and a busy chat channel is by Akiranime. The anal dildo show for an appreciative chat audience is by AnimeFlux. And the hot camgirl with the spread pussy is by Vincentccart.
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Monday, April 22nd, 2019 -- by Bacchus
If you’re not a frequent and active user of adult webcam sites, their bewildering profusion these days and the wide variety of different business models under which they operate is likely to be at least a little bit confusing. So much so, in fact, that when you do feel the urge to spend a little time with a camgirl, you’ll probably benefit from using a reviews-and-ratings link like the one that opens this paragraph.
Just a few days ago I was thinking about how far the cams industry has come in the last twenty years, while I skimmed through Milo Minara’s classic camgirl graphic novel from 2000. It’s an adult comic book that’s very rarely seen and extremely hard to construct internet searches for, because it has the orthographically challenging title of “WWW.” Yes, “doubleyou-doubleyou-doubleyou-dot” is really the title!
Of course Manara’s 20th century vision of erotic camming is — in some ways — laughably quaint. It’s not just the tech, with its single camera the size of a grapefruit, snapping still photos that refresh every twenty seconds. There’s also major plot tension between the cam girls and their employer about whether they are just going to show tits and ass, or whether they need to show the camera some fully-exposed pink pussy as he is demanding. He also wants them to use sex toys for the customers, but — at least at the beginning of the book — this is unthinkable!
Economically, there’s no hint in this story of the ladies being independent, or having any share of the subscription money coming in. It’s made plain that they get well paid and kept in a nice Venice apartment. But their boss hectors them via the telephone with threats of bouncing them out of there, in an effort to get them to do racier stuff for the camera. It’s a far cry from the cheerfully-raunchy independent cam performers of today!
Of course pretty girls alone in a nice apartment along a seedy canal in Venice eventually attract attention from some unusual characters. Before you know it our exhibitionist heroines are doing all kinds of sexy shenanigans on camera to distract the subscribers from the odd goings-on in their apartment. Pussy shots are just the least of it:
That twenty-second refresh on the webcam becomes a plot point. The ladies learn that if they are doing something sexy enough when the camera redraws, nobody will question what happened previously. In order to hide various misdeeds and mishaps from their boss and the police, pretty soon it’s not just pink shows! They get out the sex toys, they do lesbian sex shows, they even stage a sort of “Weekend At Bernies” style posed orgy with a badly-the-worse-for-wear apartment intruder that they have conked on the head and are trying to discretely chuck out a window into the canal.
All in all, I’m glad that modern cam shows are so much more interactive, personal, and explicit (if that’s what you want and are willing to pay for) than they were a generation ago. But Manara’s vision of 1990s camming is comical, sexy, and (if you’re prone to that sort of thing) could make you nostalgic for the 20th-century internet.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
In a post at Lady Laid Bare where Jillian Boyd is exploring her enjoyment of wet slippery lubed and oiled skin, there’s a quick reference to a cams performer on Chaturbate who is having a good night:
Reader, I must confess — I am seriously into the sight of glistening skin.
It’s why I nearly jizzed myself with happiness when I saw the links to those videos. I wasn’t even aware there was porn which catered so specifically to this turn-on — but there it was, a glimpse of a whole website dedicated to lube drizzling on tits and abs, to sticky and wet fucks and the glee of making a great big mess with personal lubricant.
Now, as we’re both still in the process of unpacking from our move, I haven’t the faintest idea where our actual stash of lube is, despite me clearly remembering packing it. For that matter, I’m also not entirely sure where the rest of our towels are. But what we did have to hand, right on top of the chest of drawers next to my side of the bed, was a bottle of Body Shop lavender massage oil. Which would not only do the job quite nicely, but would also make less of a mess. It would do. For now. Besides, I was already soaking wet from watching our cam girl of choice on Chaturbate — she was naked, spread out and at the mercy of an OhMiBod vibrator inside her, which pinged every time she got tipped. Judging from the wall of yellow in the chat box, the constant beeping sound of tipping and the fact that she was pretty much constantly grinding and moaning, she was having a pretty goddamn good night of it.
I am fascinated by this field observation of a pleasure loop in which the act of getting paid is quite literally a sexual stimulus. There is, to be sure, a cynical perspective from which to consider the account, one in which the cam girl is cast rigorously as a “performer” so that her performance of sexual response and pleasure can be denigrated as somehow insincere (because money). But it seems to me that human sexuality is more complex than that. I don’t have any trouble at all believing that the performer here was experiencing genuine sexual pleasure, mediated by a competent vibrator and reinforced by the continuous influx of “sincere flattery” — which is to say, money. Getting paid is pleasurable, and so is a decent vibration delivered with an unpredictable pattern. Even if this performer set out to deliver a show in which she performed pleasure without intending or expecting to experience it, I’m not entirely convinced that she would or could have been successful at doing so. If you mix two different pleasures often and thoroughly enough, they become associated with one another. That’s one way fetishes are built.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 -- by Bacchus
My visit today to www.spicywebcams.com contributed nicely to my ongoing exploration of the web cam-girl business as it exists in 2015. In particular, I am firming up (no jokes please!) my impression that the often-advertised “free chats” at cam sites have evolved usefully since the early days. The ones I saw at SpicyWebcams.com today were truly free (no registration required), low hassle, and in many cases quite entertaining, all in service of their role as an enticing draw for the more-explicit (not free) private-chat cam sessions.
When I checked it out, this cam site had about 900 performers online, divided into 37 niches sorted by age, body type, ethnicity, bust size, hair color, ass size, and preferred kinks. I clicked through to the MILF category and although many performers were identified as younger than the mid-30s vision of MILF perfection that fires my middle-aged imagination, they presented an enticing array of thumbnails. There’s a nice feature here where mousing over a performer’s thumb often gets you an enticing short “preview” movie of them. Clicking through into the free chats, one finds scantily-attired sexy people, showing off for the camera or chatting up the guests until somebody decides to take it private. I can totally see how finding free chats with sexier stuff going on could become a fun hunt for idle moments!
The pics above? They are from the site’s blog, which showcases select performers like these ladies from the “busty” category.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 -- by Bacchus
Over the years I’ve had little to say here at ErosBlog about the webcam industry, because (quite frankly) I don’t have much experience with it. My own joy has always been in still erotic images; I never even enjoyed porn videos as much as most people seem to. An age ago I scoffed at video porn because it struck me as “inexorably linear.” The web to me is beautiful because it’s interactive; you can follow links and jump from site to site and go backwards and forwards and sideways. You get to craft all of your own interactions at your own speed, rather than just sitting, staring at a screen as it creeps in its predestined petty pace from frame to frame.
Which means I ought to love cam shows. Live webcam sex at a cams site like FapShows.com is about the most interactive sexual experience you can have on the internet. You can click from performer to performer, chat with them (often for free) in their public chats, and then (assuming your stack of tokens is sufficient) go private with the model for a custom experience as personalized as you can afford and as interactive as the technology allows.
My excuse for not blogging more cams stuff over the years? Inexperience. I really haven’t done very much with cams performers, because I suffer from a touch of choice-paralysis. A site like this presents an all-you-can-eat buffet of loveliness when you land on the home page:
It’s my idiosyncrasy that when I’ve had shekels to spend on an internet sex show, I would always have trouble making up my mind which girl to engage with. Too much choice: it’s a good problem to have!
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