Number of webcam models on the rise

A Newsbeat investigation’s identified a rising number of English women are working as web cam models on the internet.

Market analysts say the overall webcam market is today worth more than a billion pounds, with online sex shows a big part of it.

Industry insiders claim there’s been a rise in applications, partly fuelled by the economic downturn, with hundreds of British women signing up to UK websites monthly, many more internationally.

They appear live on webcams that can be accessed on computers around the globe.

Men generally pay premium rates to get the privilege.

Twenty-three-year-old Lauren’s been working as a webcam model for a few months.

The lady works with a few other girls in a basement of a semi-detached house which has been converted into a studio.

It’s been furnished to look like two different rooms meninas japonesas. On one side there’s a bed, one the other side of the coin a sofa.

The ladies wear fancy underwear and headsets to talk to punters for the webcams. Lauren told Newsbeat she can make up to £ 30 per hour with additional bonuses.

“You can imagine, it is talking dirty. You understand, if they ask me to have my top off, I will perform. ”

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Lauren says she can make approximately £ 30 per hour to be a webcam girl
Market analysts say general the webcam market grew from around £ 730m in 2006 to £ 1 ) 1bn in 2008.

It’s predicted to almost double in well worth again by 2015, with pornographic webcam sites driving a car much of that growth.

They say it’s even more hidden from analysts than any other segments, but is a “lively” part of the market.

The most popular site is big in size, claiming to have about 27, 000 webcam types and 17 million people, with around 12, 1000 new sign-ups each day.

Brodie Fry create one of the websites. He informed Newsbeat the recession offers contributed to more women working while webcam models.

“A lot of women in this sort of economic downturn will move into the adult industry.

This puts gigantic pressure on women within the industry to perform more
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“This may be a safe alternative to becoming an escort or an adult version. There’s total anonymity. Of course , the operators don’t use the real names.

One site told Newsbeat in the last year it’s put an extra 42 British women normally a month on its catalogs.

Richard Smallbone recently set his unique webcam site. He advised Newsbeat up to 150 English women are signing up to UK sites a month, with many even more joining international sites.

He said: “We started off with 12 users and there would be one woman working during the day.

“Eighteen months down the line, we’ve 80 different profiles, anything at all up to 16 girls functioning during the day. ” ingyen érett sex

‘Enormous pressure’
But there are concerns. Campaigners say webcam girls could be pressurised into doing points they’re not comfortable with.

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Mobile adult services are usually the next growth area
Anna van Heeswijk’s from Object, which campaigns against the sexual exploitation of women, said the industry should be better regulated.

“It is the man who also decides which women this individual wants to choose, depending on what she looks like and how she will be willing to behave sexually.

“This puts tremendous pressure on women inside the industry to perform more and more intense versions of pornography in order to attract men, in order to make a full time income. ”

Lauren has no such worries. She said her priority is her three-year-old daughter and insists she’s not being used.

“A lot of my friends are working in outfits shops and stuff, they have perhaps no money.

“I could do two shifts in a week and I am just still earning more money than they are and I get to devote an entire day to, every day, with my girl.

“I didn’t want to be at work all day and still have her in nursery. My spouse and i wouldn’t be able to see her. ”

It’s not only on the internet where web cam models are becoming more popular.

Juniper Research anticipates that revenues from portable adult services will rise from £ 1 . 3 bn in 2008 to £ 2 . 9bn simply by 2013 – part of that growth is from webcams on mobiles.