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When you’re an artist, deeply passionate, and self sabotaging, camming is a great way to relieve the stress of your demons. But it’s also a really, really dirty business.
Young men have grown up inside a digitised world – flicking through girls on Tinder, following them on Instagram and, in a natural progression, paying for female attention on cam sites. Camgirls don’t just offer “artistic expression” and empowerment – they sell a highly addictive product. Men buy tokens, get a dopamine hit from seeing the girl naked and, if they’re lucky, a dopamine hit from her responding to them personally. Camsites make money from a minority of addicted customers, just like casinos profit from a tiny percentage of their players who make in-game microtransactions.
Those who become regulars of a specific camgirl begin to feel they know her on a personal level and some even report falling in love with them. This is not a coincidence. Camgirls are skilled at making you feel special, as if they’re speaking to you alone and giving you their undivided attention.
In an interview with Jeffrey Masters of LGBTQ&A podcast, Isa Mazzei, a camgirl who has amassed a massive following on her OnlyFans account, talks about the work that goes into her job. She describes how hard she works to come up with fresh show ideas for regular viewers, to remember their birthdays, and to respond to private messages, playing the role of a de facto therapist for some fans.
