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  • - Ash, come here...stand...

  • No, don't touch my...you just nip flashed me!

  • Stand!

  • (bouncy music)

  • - Hi there, I'm Aria, and as the camming industry

  • continues to thrive, I figure, "What better way

  • "to learn more about this unique and fascinating

  • profession than by spending the day with a cam girl?"

  • Oh, that's locked.

  • I'm meeting Scarlet, a cam girl who, like many others,

  • earns money by performing online in nude cam shows.

  • Scarlet is also a vegan and animal

  • lover, who owns a dog named Ash.

  • - I started camming in April of last year,

  • so I've been camming almost a year now.

  • - A year, wow. After I eventually realized

  • that a pet store might not be the most

  • appropriate place to discuss camming,

  • we head back to Scarlet's apartment.

  • What is this? - Oh, it's just

  • one of my presents that I get.

  • - You get presents? - I do get presents.

  • - What's in it? - I have no clue.

  • You wanna try to guess?

  • What does it feel like?

  • - What do you say, what do you think?

  • - It's a pony. - It's a pony?

  • - It's a pony, I put that on my wishlist, you got me.

  • - What are some stuff you've got on your wishlist?

  • - My desk in my room and my carpet,

  • and my mattress topper was from my wishlist.

  • - So basically your entire house is...

  • - Yeah, everything. - Is there a chance

  • this is going to be inappropriate?

  • - Possibly. (ripping)

  • - Oh, actually, this is not dirty, we're good.

  • - Fantastic. - Let's see.

  • Aw, it's a choker! - It's a choker.

  • Yes. - A really cute one.

  • - I definitely knew what that was.

  • Is that a bath mat? That's a gigantic bath mat.

  • Rocky, you wanna come over here, give her a whirl?

  • How is that for ya?

  • What would you give that on a scale of one to ten?

  • - That's a good number. - That's a good number.

  • Scarlet then takes us into her bedroom,

  • where she will usually cam from.

  • - Can you say hi? (laughs)

  • This is a loveince, this is what a

  • lot of girls use on Chatter Bee.

  • Basically, this goes inside you with the tail hanging out.

  • So it connects to your laptop, and when you get tips

  • on the website, it makes this buzz,

  • so depending on how much you tip

  • is how long it buzzes for and how hard.

  • - She also shows more of the toys she'll often use on cam.

  • - Nipple clamps. - Oh my.

  • - I have handcuffs, whips... - This is like

  • a very dirty version of Mary Poppins' purse.

  • - Yes! I have a ball gag, it's like a...

  • and it nipple clamps as well.

  • Wise men say only fools rush in

  • - How did you get into camming?

  • When I was 15 my dad kicked me out because he wanted to live

  • with his girlfriend at the time, who didn't like me,

  • and so I had to drop out of school to get a job,

  • and I was working as a dishwasher.

  • I was working 10 to 14 hours a day, and I knew I wanted

  • to do camming, but I waited until a couple of months

  • after I turned 18; I figured I would just try this

  • and see how it goes, and it kind of saved my life,

  • because I was so miserable doing what I was doing.

  • A lot of people think that camming is just only like

  • having a webcam and masturbating,

  • but for me, for instance, it's about like

  • building a community and bonding with people

  • and getting to know people offline as well.

  • Growing up, for me, I was bullied,

  • and something that I found was helpful

  • was to be in chatrooms online in places where

  • I could talk to other people online.

  • So this is why I enjoy doing what I do so much,

  • because I'm still doing what I used to do,

  • like I'm just talking to people in a chatroom.

  • - What's it like for your roommate?

  • How does that work? - I had to make sure

  • she was okay, before she moved in, with what I did,

  • and luckily she is, and she's supportive of me.

  • For her, probably it sounds like I'm

  • just in a very enthusiastic Skype call.

  • - Soon after, Scarlet informs her followers

  • that she's going live. - So, right now,

  • people are just realizing that I'm live,

  • and they'll start coming in slowly.

  • - This person says, "Well hey Aria,

  • how has the day been going?"

  • So polite! My day is going swell.

  • So this is how a typical show goes?

  • - Yeah, so this is the warming up.

  • We already have almost 300 people watching.

  • - Scarlet currently makes up to $700 per session,

  • with an audience averaging around 2,000 to 3,000 viewers.

  • - Do you want to spank me, or do you want to be spanked?

  • - These are questions I didn't think

  • I was going to be ready for today.

  • (slaps)

  • - How many is that, three?

  • - God damn it, Ryan. (slap) - Alright, have a good day!

  • - Have a good day! (laughs)

  • These people are very friendly.

  • - Yeah, they are, this is what I mean.

  • A lot of rooms are not where it's just all demands

  • and dirty things, a lot of the time as well,

  • it's just like people coming in for conversation.

  • - As the show progresses, more requests,

  • specifically for me, start to come in.

  • - Do you want to flash your feet?

  • - Oh, oh!

  • - Nordic guy says, "Can we tip to get his clothes off?"

  • There's going to be no nudity here.

  • But luckily, as I knew I couldn't get inappropriate

  • on camera, I already had something up my sleeve.

  • You're gonna get something even better

  • than any show in a little bit.

  • - I'm really really excited for this.

  • - And she should be, because since I didn't want

  • to let her viewers down, I preemptively arranged

  • for a local theater company to come join me

  • in the camming industry's first ever

  • live theatrical performance of the classic 1980

  • musical spectacular, Les Miserables.

  • - I've always wanted to do Les Mis,

  • and not had the chance to do it before,

  • so I'm really excited to really nail

  • this version here that we're doing today.

  • (chanting)

  • - 2,000 viewers now. - They want to see a show,

  • we're going to give them a show.

  • - They're going to get something.

  • - We can't mess this up.

  • - Les Miserables! - Les Miserables!

  • As they turn your dreams to shame... ♪

  • - So how did you like the show?

  • - I loved it, I thought it was incredible.

  • And there's his name! ♪ ♪ Three days are all I need. ♪

  • Then I'll return, I pledge my word. ♪

  • Then I'll return. ♪ ♪ You must think me mad! ♪

  • - (Scarlet) My viewers loved it, they were writing

  • in the chat the whole time how much they loved it.

  • It's not always sexual, a lot of people come

  • for the entertainment value as well,

  • and that's what happened today.

  • People were joining to see the entertainment

  • of what was going on with the theater performance.

  • Without me, his world will go on turning

  • ♪ A world that's full of happiness that I have never known! ♪

  • - (Scarlet) Can you imagine just going into a room

  • and just jerking off for hours on end?

  • That's boring, you get bored and you just leave eventually.

  • I have the entertainment value, so you come,

  • you stay for my personality, and

  • then you also jerk off sometimes.

  • Camming is more than what meets the eye.

  • People don't understand that there's

  • a lot more that goes into it.

  • Some days I try to think, and I'm just like,

  • if I could be doing anything else, what would I be doing?

  • And I can't think of anything else,

  • because I always come back to camming.

  • I love camming and I love video-making.

  • Yeah, this is one of my favorite times streaming as well,

  • this is the coolest thing I think I've ever done on cam.

  • Everyone should check it out, it's not a lonely thing,

  • cause a lot of people assume that only lonely guys

  • go on there, but it's for everyone.

  • So I'm going to do this as long as I can,

  • as long as it's making a sustainable income

  • and I'm happy doing it, then I'm going to do it.

  • There's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  • Do you hear the people sing? ♪

  • Singing the song of angry men, ♪

  • It is the music of the people

  • Who will not be slaves again. ♪

- Ash, come here...stand...

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