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Local observation
I was doing my occasional cruising through my city's craigslist in the hospitality section and notice the increase of physical studios/studios for camming. I've always seen the strip clubs, private clubs, shooter girls, etc, but the camming studio ads are new. I've seen the independent(?) camgirl ads before when the erotic section was still there. Sometimes, with the way this job is, I feel like the only one around here who knows about this job. But I have bumped into one other cam-girl in this city.
I know Vegas has their studios (like on sm). Are there camming studios where you're located at? Are they new or have been established for a while? I just noticed the new trend in my city for the studio thing. It makes me wonder if they're doing a good job at providing for the girls. I snooped to one website and it wasn't much info.
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Re: Local observation
I worked at a camming studio about 2 years ago. It was actually pretty nice, and they didn't take any of my money. I had tried camming before but I was just using my built in webcam on my laptop, and I didn't do very well. I didn't know if I liked it enough to invest in a webcam and lighting, and just didn't know what I was doing at all. The studio provided me with all the equipment, took cute pics of me, and instructed me a little bit on how to hustle guys into private. The site that I was on really sucked, though, so I stopped working there.
Overall I think it was a good thing for me, but I would advise others to be wary of studios taking your money, I don't know if that's something they usually do at physical studios. But for me it was def a good way to get my feet wet, so to speak, without any up-front investment.
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Good insight. One ad I saw looked like they just wanted you to sign contract under them and that's all (maybe marketing?) - kind of like how internetcammodels (?name) is. But then another ad I saw was that, plus, they also provided a place to stay for the girls, which I see as beneficial for those who don't have all they need, or need the space.
I'm not thinking of joining since I already have footing, but I was pondering if the popularity in camming currently is similar to that of stripping.
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I would actually love to have my own physical camming studio one day. Yeah most of us would agree studios are stupid because any girl can do it on her own... but not everyone wants to do it on their own. Honestly, some days I think I could have been a better cammer if I had a physical place to go to, and NOT be able to sit around my house all day reading cam forums ;D
I have not concretely heard of physical studios in my area, but I'm sure there are.
Funny enough, when I was 18 or so I met this lady in a bar who tried to get me interested in camming, which I thought was total bullshit and a scam, and just a way for her to try to get into my pants LOL! I was at the bar getting shit faced by myself after having a horrible fight with my boyfriend at the time (yeah I was well under age, but I was a regular there and they either didn't care or actually thought I was of age). As the night goes on I'm still sitting there by myself and this butch lesbian old enough to be my mom comes up and starts talking to me. But hey, ya know, I'm having one hell of a fuckin day and no one else is talking to so might as well chat it up with someone, right? Haha. So we get to talking, and she offers to buy me some more drinks and food, and whatever I'm just going along with it. And then all of a sudden she drops this on me: "I have a house where girls fuck all day long with other people watching on the internet and make a lot of money... you should join us some day". That was the end of the conversation right there. It just so happened right after she said that my douche bag boyfriend that I had been fighting with showed up to rescue me from the old butch lady who keeps showing me pictures of "her girlfriends" on her phone that look like pics from a Playboy magazine. I don't believe those girls were actually her gf's, but it definitely is very possible she's running a legit studio.
Other than that I've only come across shit tons of posts on Craigslist and BackPage.