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In the world of camgirls, it’s common to hear the girls talk about how they get a ‘whale’ — a regular customer who spends a lot of tokens, makes frequent requests and convinces themselves that by spending more money on her they might actually be able to take her off camera. Many of the men in these sessions report feeling a real connection to their camgirls, like they know them on a personal level and that the more they spend the closer they’ll be able to get to them.
But that’s not the only way these women are exploited by their customers. Camgirls also often receive threats and injurious messages that they have to tolerate as part of their job description.
In her memoir Camgirl, former cam girl Isa Mazzei lays bare the intimate and taboo world of online sex work in an eloquent and frank narrative. The same nervy experiences that inspired her to write the Netflix thriller CAM, which stars Madeline Brewer as a digital sex worker who faces off against a supernatural version of herself, are captured in Camgirl with equal parts breezy honesty and whip-smart self-awareness. It’s a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered what it’s really like to strip, masturbate, draw pictures, play games and fuck on camera in order to make a living.
