Originally Posted by Paul Markham

It's the girls, or guys on the gay side, that make this business. We need to treat them with the respect they deserve. Over the years I've met far more good ones than bad ones. Many had worked camming. The most difficult were strippers, they seem to build a wall between themselves and the photographer. In saying that I've known some great girls who were strippers.

I refuse to accept that girls in the Third World can't be lured into working harder and targetted because they're from the Third World. Or because they work in the Cams side of porn.

I have heard of girls who were attractive, worked hard for me and stayed in the business for years. Who left cams because it paid crap. I know girls in the UK who make more in a day than they would be working for a studio. The freelance side is growing fast. I do accept that if a girl learns how to market herself, she may well leave a studio and go freelance.

The future is about harnessing those girls who can and will earn more by going freelance, giving them a webcam platform , ability to bill clients and a platform for promoting. The % may be less. But 10% or $1,000 is better than 30% of $200 and far better than 50% of .