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Inside Studio 20 - a closed door means a model is entertaining a client
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A cam-girl gets ready to entertain in a bathroom setting - complete with chandelier
"You better have something to talk about otherwise the member will not stay" says Andra Chirnogeanu, Studio 20's PR manager
Models are encouraged to message clients every day
"They don't touch you. They are thousands of miles away"- Sandy Bell, a 'cam-girl', describes her work.
Irina Ilisei believes some women are pushed into the industry
By Linda Pressly BBC News, Bucharest
Interactive webcamming is the fastest-growing sector of the global pornography business. In Romania, thousands of women work as "cam-girls" from studios and from home. It is a 24/7 market, the majority of clients logging in from North America and Western Europe.
In the heart of Bucharest on the pavement outside a tall apartment building a group of young women smoke, talk and laugh. It is an unremarkable scene. Except that in the bright morning sunlight, their heavy makeup, sky-high heels and shiny, revealing clothes contrast with the sensible, summer dress of passers-by.
Inside the building, Studio 20 occupies the first and second floors. Forty rooms open off pristine, white corridors, their walls adorned with pictures of women in states of glamorous undress. A closed door means business. Inside that room a woman is live and direct via webcam with international clients - and as long as she is alone in the room, it is entirely legal. In this world of virtual relationships and cybersex, those in front of the camera are "models" and the men who watch are "members".
Lana works in Room 8. It is dominated by a circular bed with cushions. There is a wardrobe containing some of her clothes.
"I usually go for dresses, lingerie, or leather," she says.
In a corner of the room there is a large computer screen, an expensive camera and behind them, professional photographers' lights. Dozens of pairs of eyes may view Lana in her room online in real time via dedicated adult websites. But she does not make any money until a member asks her to "go private" in a one-to-one webcam session.
Working an eight-hour day, she earns close to 4,000 euros (£3,600) per month - nearly 10 times the Romanian average wage. As Lana's employer, Studio 20 also makes 4,000 euros per month from her online sessions. And at the top of the video chat money-making pyramid, LiveJasmin - the online cam site that streams Studio 20's content and is responsible for collecting payment from the credit cards of clients - takes double that: 8,000 euros.
LiveJasmin is the largest internet cam host in the world. Between 35 and 40 million users visit it daily, and at any given moment, there are 2,000 models live online. It is not hard to understand how the web-cam industry, overall, generated an estimated $2-3bn in 2016.
Lana is a graduate who worked in real estate until the global economic crash of 2008 plunged Romania into recession. That is when she first took up video-chat. Her first day in front of the camera has stayed with her.
"I was alone in the room, and it felt like there were hundreds of people around me. And I couldn't keep up with what they were all saying, and what they were asking of me. It was quite shocking. But then I learned to be perceptive about which member was a potential paying customer and not to waste time with all of them in the free online space."
So what happens in a private, webcam one-to-one?
"Mostly it's conversation. I do role-play sometimes, and a small part of it is nudity and masturbation," she says.
While the members sometimes try to push her to do things she doesn't want to do, she is able to set the pace.
"It's up to you as a woman to lead, and that's quite empowering."
The important thing is to keep a paying client online for as many minutes as possible.
"You have 10 minutes of being cute and sexy, and then you better have something to talk about because otherwise the member will not stay," says Andra Chirnogeanu, Studio 20's PR manager.
To this end, Studio 20 employs trainers, a psychologist and an English teacher. Most of the clients are North American and European, so it is essential the models can communicate with them.
But the English teacher, Andrea, has a remit that goes far beyond language skills.
"I teach them about fetishes - what a fetish is, why a person has one… We study Freud and a lot of psychology. And we study a book of gestures because women must be sensual, smart and beautiful."
Geography is important too, so the models can talk about where the members are from.
"That or exotic places," says Andrea. "This is not only a sex business as some people think - models have to speak with a member as if they are in a normal, online relationship. Being able to discuss many subjects brings comfort to both parties."
Studio 20 is the largest studio webcam franchise in the world. It has nine branches in Romania, including one employing "cam-boys" who service the gay market. Its other branches are in the Colombian city of Cali, Budapest and Los Angeles.
Not all models work from a studio. Sandy Bell - a graduate with two university degrees - is one of a small army of women who webcam from home. She makes about 100 euros (£90) a day when she goes online to supplement her income as an interior designer. One advantage of being independent - and dealing directly with a web-hosting company - is that she earns a larger percentage of members' fees.
"Mostly they're nice guys, not crazy men," she says. "There are a lot of members looking for love. They want the connection. Some members want you to call their name. Or to talk to them while you dance and strip. I'm very honest with them - they know I have a boyfriend, and they know we are not going to have sex in real life."
Sandy Bell's partner lives with her in their high-rise flat on the outskirts of Bucharest. He knows what she does, but her parents do not. It is not uncommon in this industry - even for studio owners - to hide their occupations from family and friends. This accounts for the fact that those who talked to the BBC in Bucharest preferred to use their cam name, or just a first name.
Unlike many who work in the sex industry, Sandy Bell does not worry about her own security.
"What can a member do to me? If he crosses a line or even if he is rude to me, I just click the mouse and stop it. And I can talk to the administrator on the website and they ban the IP address, so the guy can never enter again even if he changes his nickname. I mean, those people are thousands of miles away from me. They don't touch you - nobody touches you. You go online alone and you work online alone. This has nothing to do with prostitution."
Is Sandy Bell a victim? She says she is not, though feminists such as Irina Ilisei say the question is more complicated than it seems.
"Do we talk about women who are forced to do this? Are they women who choose it? Or perhaps they do it because they are psychologically manipulated, or they have a lack of economic stability. Probably, it's a combination of all these factors."
Ilisei believes the push factors include Romania's high rate of teenage pregnancy, and the fact that 30% of those who finish higher education cannot find a job.
The webcam industry also does its best to entice young women into the business.
"There are advertisements on university campuses," says Ilisei. "Students get direct Facebook messages with offers of work. And the studios are very corporate - exactly like an entry-career job in other fields. The language is all about empowering young women, being independent, learning skills, even getting bonuses if you convince your friends to try it too."
For Lana, 31, webcamming has provided enough money for her to bring up her daughter alone, and to think about investing money in something "that will bring money to the country". She plans to give up in two years' time.
But some women are not free to make the choices Lana has. Oana, 28, counts herself as an escapee from the sex industry. At 16 - a minor - she fell in love with a boyfriend who persuaded her to do video chat.
"He told me I just had to talk. That's all. But he was in the room with me, and we made pornography there."
It is illegal in Romania for a man and woman to webcam together, but it is impossible to say how commonly the law is flouted in the way Oana describes. She went on to work as a prostitute in Germany, until she found the courage to return to Bucharest and a new life. Now she works in sex work prevention - talking to young women about her experiences, and trying to persuade them of the danger of video chat.
"There are girls who think they will just stay in front of the camera and make money. But all the things they do there will affect their minds. The next step is prostitution. I see that now."
"It's about selling your brain, not your body," she says. "I see it like a performance, like a show. But this is not a job for everybody - a lot of girls quit after a few weeks or even days, because they have this mindset that they're selling their body. Your mindset is what matters in this job. I have my limits, and I truly do not feel exploited."
Andra Chirnogeanu, Studio 20's PR Manager, also rejects the idea that this is risky or psychologically damaging work.
"It's psychologically damaging to stay 12 hours in an office getting paid a minimum wage," she says.
But the fact that models often seek to conceal their job is, perhaps, telling. If Lana and Sandy Bell could have made a good living using their qualifications and other work experience, would they still have chosen to undress for clients in New York, Frankfurt and London?
Lorenzo Maccotta's photographs are from his award-winning series about the Live Cam studio industry in Romania
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This article needs to be updated . The reason given is: Missing information about rise of cybersex during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( May 2022 )
This article is about the virtual sex encounter. For the Blackbear album, see Cybersex (album) . For the Doja Cat song, see Cyber Sex (song) .

^ Jump up to: a b Döring, Nicola (2000). "Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment" . CyberPsychology & Behavior . 3 (5): 863–884. doi : 10.1089/10949310050191845 .

^ Courtice, Erin Leigh; Shaughnessy, Krystelle (2017). "Technology-mediated sexual interaction and relationships: a systematic review of the literature" . Sexual and Relationship Therapy . 32 (3–4): 269–290. doi : 10.1080/14681994.2017.1397948 .

^ Hahn, Harley (1996). The Internet Complete Reference (2nd ed.). Osborne McGraw-Hill. p. 570 . ISBN 0-07-882138-X . The goal of mud sex is the same as the goal of regular sex (without the babies): to bond temporarily in a way that is physically and emotionally satisfying. To do so, two people will exchange messages so as to lead one another into a high level of sexual arousal, culminating in a well-defined resolution.

^ Hahn, Harley (1996). The Internet Complete Reference (2nd ed.). Osborne McGraw-Hill. p. 570 . ISBN 0-07-882138-X . To be blunt, most mud sex is also accompanied by the people sexually gratifying themselves in real life at the same time.

^ Jump up to: a b "IJM Seeks to End Cybersex Trafficking of Children and #RestartFreedom this Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday" . PR Newswire . November 28, 2016.

^ Jump up to: a b c "Cybersex Trafficking" . IJM . 2020.

^ Jump up to: a b "Cyber-sex trafficking: A 21st century scourge" . CNN . July 18, 2013.

^ Ruberg, Bonnie (2007-05-18). "What Counts as Cybersex?" . The Village Voice . Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

^ Hahn, Harley (1996). The Internet Complete Reference (2nd ed.). Osborne McGraw-Hill. p. 570 . ISBN 0-07-882138-X . MUD SEX refers to the acting out of erotic feelings by two people while typing a series of sexually explicit messages. (Mud sex is also referred to as NET SEX or—on a TinyMud—TINYSEX.)

^ Busey, Andrew (1995). Secrets of the MUD Wizards . SAMS Publishing . p. 95. ISBN 0-672-30723-5 . MUD sex is another MUD item that may seem a bit shocking to some. MUD sex (sometimes called TinySex—usually on TinyMUDs, MUCKs, and MUSHes) is a lot like phone sex. As you know, most MUDs have a high degree of flexibility when it comes to expressing oneself and communicating—and if you're a little creative, you can use these commands (such as say and emote discussed in Chapter 5) to have MUD sex (or TinySex, depending on the type of MUD it is).

^ Dibbell, Julian (1998). My Tiny Life . Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-3626-1 . Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

^ Ruberg, Bonnie (2007-07-27). "Do You Like to Watch?" . The Village Voice . Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

^ Ruberg, Bonnie (2007-08-31). "Peeking Up the Skirt of Online Sex Work" . The Village Voice . Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

^ Jump up to: a b c Grov, Christian, Brian Joseph Gillespie, Tracy Royce, and Janet Lever. 2011. “Perceived Consequences of Casual Online Sexual Activities on Heterosexual Relationships: A U.S. Online Survey.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(2): 429-39.

^ Ito, Mizuko (1997). "Virtually Embodied: The Reality of Fantasy in a Multi-User Dungeon". In Porter, David (ed.). Internet Culture (paperback ed.). Routledge. pp. 95–96. ISBN 0-415-91684-4 . She describes virtual sex as akin to an interactive romance novel. The metaphor is crucial. The fantasy "text" is paramount, the real bodies nonexistent. She explains: "It is how you describe yourself and how you act (on the Internet) that makes up the 'real you'.... real life persons' looks mean so little to me..."

^ Döring, Nicola (2009). "The Internet's Impact on Sexuality. A Critical Review of 15 Years of Research" . Computers in Human Behavior . 25 (5): 1089–1101. doi : 10.1016/j.chb.2009.04.003 .

^ Döring, Nicola; Mohseni, Rohangis (2018). "Are Online Sexual Activities and Sexting Good for Adults' Sexual Well-Being? Results from a National Online Survey" . International Journal of Sexual Health . 30 (3): 250–263. doi : 10.1080/19317611.2018.1491921 .

^ Hahn, Harley (1996). The Internet Complete Reference (2nd ed.). Osborne McGraw-Hill. p. 571 . ISBN 0-07-882138-X . Finally, don't forget that the characters on a mud will not correspond exactly to the people in real life. In particular, what looks like a woman may really be a man. HINT: If you are a guy, and you go up to a female character on a mud and say, "Hi, wanna have sex?", and she says yes right away, chances are she is another guy playing a female role.

^ Carkeek, Freya; James, Paul (1992). "This Abstract Body" . Arena (99–100): 66–85.

^ Carkeek, Freya; James, Paul (1992). "This Abstract Body" . Arena (99–100): 68.

^ Carton, Sean (1995). Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour . Ventana Press. p. 180. ISBN 1-56604-222-4 . TinySex Simulated sexual activity done on a virtual world. Like the text equivalent of phone sex. It should be entered into with caution because you never know who's who online, and some people love enticing a person into an extended TinySex session and then posting a log of the activity to various newsgroups.

^ Siemaszko, Corky (2006-02-02). "Cybersplit Online Affair Spurs Off-Line Divorce" . New York Daily News . Archived from the original on August 31, 2009 . Retrieved 2010-04-20 .

^ Godson, Suzi (2002). The Sex Book . Cassell Illustrated. p. 258. ISBN 0-304-35991-2 .

^ "Senator warns of possible surge in child cybersex traffic" . The Philippine Star . April 13, 2020.

^ "Duterte's drug war and child cybersex trafficking" . The ASEAN Post . October 18, 2019.

^ "Norwegian national, partner nabbed; 4 rescued from cybersex den" . Manila Bulletin . May 1, 2020.

^ Jump up to: a b "Cheap tech and widespread internet access fuel rise in cybersex trafficking" . NBC News . June 30, 2018.

^ "Senate to probe rise in child cybersex trafficking" . The Philippine Star . November 11, 2019.

^ "Global taskforce tackles cybersex child trafficking in the Philippines" . Reuters . April 15, 2019.

^ "Webcam slavery: tech turns Filipino families into cybersex child traffickers" . Reuters . June 17, 2018.

^ "How the internet fuels sexual exploitation and forced labour in Asia" . South China Morning Post . May 2, 2019.

^ "Philippines Makes More Child Cybersex Crime Arrests, Rescues" . VOA . May 12, 2017.

^ "Cybersex trafficking spreads across Southeast Asia, fuelled by internet boom. And the law lags behind" . South China Morning Post . September 11, 2019.


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Cybersex , also called computer sex , Internet sex , netsex and, colloquially, cyber or cybering , is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more people connected remotely via computer network send each other sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. [1] Cybersex is a sub-type of technology-mediated sexual interactions . [2] In one form, this fantasy sex is accomplished by the participants describing their actions and responding to their chat partners in a mostly written form designed to stimulate their own sexual feelings and fantasies. [3] Cybersex often includes real life masturbation . [4]
Environments in which cybersex takes place are not necessarily exclusively devoted to that subject, and participants in any Internet chat may suddenly receive a message of invitation. The quality of a cybersex encounter typically depends upon the participants' abilities to evoke a vivid, visceral mental picture in the minds of their partners. Imagination and suspension of disbelief are also critically important. Cybersex can occur either within the context of existing or intimate relationships, e.g. among lovers who are geographically separated, or among individuals who have no prior knowledge of one another and meet in virtual spaces or cyberspaces and may even remain anonymous to one another. In some contexts cybersex is enhanced by the use of a webcam to transmit real-time video of the partners. Non-consensual cybersex occurs in cybersex trafficking crimes. [5] [6] [7]

Cybersex is commonly performed in Internet chat rooms (such as IRC , talkers or web chats) and on instant messaging systems. It can also be performed using webcams, voice chat systems like Skype, or online games and/or virtual worlds like Second Life or VRChat . The exact definition of cybersex—specifically, whether real-life masturbation must be taking place for the online sex act to count as cybersex—is up for debate. [8] It is also fairly frequent in online role-playing games , such as MUDs and MMORPGs , though community attitudes toward this activity vary greatly from game to game. Some online social games like Red Light Center are dedicated to cybersex and other adult behaviors. These online games are often called AMMORPGs .

Cybersex may also be accomplished through the use of avatars in a multiuser software environment. It is often called mudsex or netsex in MUDs. In TinyMUD variants, particularly MUCKs , the term
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