Candy From Strangers

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Candy From Strangers, an old Salon article detailing the gritty, greedy underside of camgirl culture. It’s like all the nasty parts of high school: only online with pictures, wishlists, and blogs.

Comments

  1. Tim says:
    June 3, 2002 at 4:03 pm

    That is like spooky. I can’t decide who’s exploiting who. Is it virtual prostitution? Wow.

  2. Paulo says:
    June 3, 2002 at 4:56 pm

    It’s odd, isn’t it? Wishlists, webcams, and teenage girls … relatively innocent and innocuous on their own, but put them together on a webpage and show it to the right target audience, and you have this.

    On the other hand, I doubt this is any different from the world that underlies certain facets of youth culture in high schools everywhere. The “camgirl world” just brings it out into the open.

    So be sure to raise the kids right, folks. ;)

  3. Bam says:
    June 3, 2002 at 5:48 pm

    Wishlist and webcam… you’re two for three, Pau! :)

  4. Paulo says:
    June 4, 2002 at 4:55 pm

    Yet no matter how much flesh I show on my cam, no one buys me stuff from my wishlist! ;D

  5. Vix says:
    June 6, 2002 at 8:43 pm

    I never knew this side of web cam culture existed. I’m in the Dark Ages. But it is frightening.