If someone asks you to imagine a porn star, you could be forgiven for conjuring an image of an 80’s relic sporting a mustache, a hairy chest, and a toolbox. As for female actresses, breasts smaller than beach balls, or with less plastic, just don’t get the air time. While traditional porn has reinforced this mental filter, there is a new type of porn that has emerged that has made the ordinary quite extraordinary. Interestingly, this new approach isn’t quite porn at all but has enabled ordinary people to connect and get their rocks off and in such a way that it no longer seems dirty or creepy.
You might be wondering where this corner of nude adventure has been hiding, but actually, it hasn’t. It snuck straight past you and you never saw it cumming, and that’s what made it so popular and socially acceptable.
What is it? Live streaming!
Live streaming has been around for a while with websites dedicated to seedy cam girls that will strip for cash and take you into a virtual private room where you can have some alone happy time, but this is a bit different, or at least it pretends to be. Unlike cam sites that were intended for sexual play, live streaming sites like OnlyFans did not set an agenda. It merely allowed people to live stream for any purpose, but low and behold, those that were a little more explicit got more views and subscribers, so made more money. The site organically erupted into a sexual utopia that was judgment-free, but mainly because so many people were already members of the site before they realized that they were part of an online sex party, and there is, of course, no requirement that you participate in the follies of sexual play, and some people just stream to socialize.
Sites like OnlyFans have exposed, quite literally, the ordinary civilian, into the jollies of online sex work and some have amassed quite a fortune in doing so, and in a short space of time. These sites are a social media enthusiast’s wet dream: they offer fame, money, and potentially influencer status, and no one is debating how highly this ranks amongst the priorities of those aspiring toward a camera-phone career.
You won’t be surprised to hear that the majority of models are female and the majority of paying customers are male – some things will never change. What is surprising is the background of the models. Most have other jobs or are studying, some are single mothers. In other words, they are regular girls and this is their side hustle. Statistics show that the number of regular girls turning to online sex work increased considerably during the pandemic, but now that they have had a taste for easy money, will they give up the gig for a regular job or make it their full-time endeavor?
What was once seen as a dirty deed has now become normalized? There doesn’t seem to be a great deal of shame around online sex work and the girls performing don’t consider themselves pornstars or prostitutes. The downside is that you might be recognized by someone you know, but there are filters that prevent your stream from being viewed from specified locations if you want to maintain some anonymity.
Like most money-making schemes, once people catch on, it becomes rather saturated and quickly, so be warned that competition is fierce and growing. That’s why you see models carving out little niches to distinguish themselves from the crowd, usually by catering to specific fetishes.
What about finding a new space altogether, one that is less crowded and perhaps a little more involved? For girls that want to take their exhibitionism a step further, but want to avoid the mass production mill of ordinary porn, there is a little-known niche that is growing fast and caters to the high-end premium paying customer: Virtual Reality Porn.
VR Porn is an immersive experience that lets the viewer watch the movie as though he is in the room, or as though he is the person performing the act or being performed on. The films are always in the point of view of the male actor, so you almost never see his face, which means aspiring female actresses can perform an act on their boyfriend, just as some do on only fans, and receive a paycheck for thousands of pounds, so paying customers like you can pretend they are the one receiving the pleasure.
It might be taking a step further into the world of porn, but if you think about it, it makes more sense. If an aspiring model is willing to do the act online in front of hundreds or thousands of people anyway, with no guarantee of being paid, then why not limit the audience and increase the pay?
We don’t know how long it will take for girls to catch on, but we know that guys will be ready with the wallet and….in hand when they do.
