THE internet can be a seedy place but while many of us might think of kinky online sex as being something that happens in dark, dingy places there's actually a chance a webcam sex session could be happening in the house next door to you. Up and down the country women as young as 18 are filming themselves getting down and dirty for the pleasure of paying customers. Some of them can earn hundreds of pounds a day by acting out the sexual fantasies of viewers ranging from mild pillow talk through to hardcore porn requests.
The girls making money on web cams are mostly just like any other women of their age, with career ambitions, mums who worry about them and hopes for the future. One girl such girl, who appears in the BBC Three documentary The Truth about Webcam Girls to be shown tonight, is hoping to fund a university course with her earnings.
She works via an adult website which gives her access to over , potential customers and she offers a one-on-one no-limits hardcore show. However, Sammy, who has been using webcams since she was just 18 years old, is now desperate to get out of the sex industry and is saving hard to fund a university course in psychology.
Sammy chats to a paying customer online while dressed up in one of her many wigs. Working from home can have its downsides for the webcam sex workers, such as when Sammy is interrupted mid show by an estate agent wishing to show people around her flat. She cuts her paying customer off at a crucial moment and fumes at her door knocker: 'He might not come back now'.
Intrusive visitors aside, usually everything goes on hold when Sammy gets a customer - and that includes time with her live-in girlfriend Amara, who doesn't seem to mind men ogling her lover's body online. I've done well' she jokes. Amara has also suffered from taunts by friends at university because of her girlfriend's sex industry job but Sammy is quick to hit back at any critics, saying:.
