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When Lola-Rose Curtis found herself facing an unpaid rent bill she knew it was time to try something new. Encouraged by her sister, the British woman turned to camming and hasn’t looked back since. Today she earns hundreds of pounds a day, spending a few hours each day talking to men online about their sexual fantasies and occasionally taking her clothes off or using sex toys.
“When I see a man in my room buying tokens to spend on me it’s a big dopamine hit,” she says. “You feel good because you’re doing what you love.” And, she adds, the money isn’t always used for sex, but it is “a lot of the time.”
In our capitalistic society everything has monetary value. And, in the case of female beauty, it’s now monetised by cam sites that rely on the same addictive behaviour that video games do – a small percentage of users generating the majority of profits through microtransactions.
In her memoir Camgirl, Isa Mazzei describes the two years she spent performing for a virtual audience of fans on a popular streaming site. Though the experience was physically and psychologically traumatic, she says the real trauma was the stigma that was heaped on her, with everyone from friends to family members saying, “girls will be girls and they’ll get punished for the bad behaviour of boys.” She hopes that by sharing her story others will understand that she was not a whore and that what she did was not illegal.
