Hey all,
Wanted to take a moment and invite everyone to a hobby project I've been working on called - it's a social network that's intended mostly for the cam girl community, but I want the social networking aspects of it to really be focused on the entire adult entertainment, voyeur, cam girls, strippers, sex, & porn community as a whole.
That said, I just wanted to extend an invitation to everyone to help me make sure every thing is working as it should and to help develop some content.
As a member, you basically get a profile/wall page, where you can leave statuses, upload images, share videos, and basically do some of the same things that other social networks allow you to do - except with adult content allowed. And of course, you can "friend" other individuals and keep track of what they're posting and such.
Additionally, you can create or join groups. For instance, maybe you want to create a group for voyeurists and have discussions relating specifically to voyeurism...you can do that. Or maybe you want to create a group just for sharing images of wives and girlfriends...you can do that, too. Or maybe you want to create a group that's invitation only for strippers to share ideas, tips and tricks - you can do that, too. You can even make the group hidden so pesky members who have no business joining the group can't see it.
Ultimately, what I want to do with the site is to start generating a user base that makes the site appealing to Cam Girls who want to interact with the community and sell items in our CamGirl Marketplace - although the functionality of the market place could be extended to porn actresses or strippers. The idea behind the marketplace is that Cam Girls can list items up for sale, including physical, shippable items like panties or virtual items like private downloads of movies or photo galleries, and then individuals on our site can purchase those items from them.
I'd tinkered with the idea of letting anyone sell items, but the risks involved of just allowing anyone and everyone to sell on the site seemed too great and at this point, I can least do a basic amount of verification on CamGirls by having them place links on their cam site profile so I know that when they list items, they're the real deal and not just someone trying to scam.
Some additional information about payment processing:
As far as payment processing is concerned, that's a very important aspect and I've put a lot of thought into how transactions are made. Obviously sites like PayPal are big NO, but I wanted the reception of payments to be just as accessible. I'm a big fan of using Bitcoins when it comes to adult transactions, but unfortunately, a lot of people in the industry, such as Cam Girls, aren't interested in learning about Bitcoin or dealing with volatility - so with CamGirlNet, I've attempted to find a middle ground, where on the back end I'm using Bitcoins to keep transaction quick, efficient, adult friendly, private, and cheap, but paying sellers on the site in such a way that they aren't at risk of charge backs or losing value on their sales.
Here's how it works.- Items on the site can be bought using Bitcoins or a Coinbase account.
-As a Coinbase merchant, once I've received the coins, they're immediately converted to a cash, USD value. This means if someone buys an item for $10, the amount I receive is $10 regardless of what the price of bitcoins might do over any certain period of time.
-Sellers on the site are then required to sign up for a Circle.com account, which basically a very simplified payment processor that allows them to receive Bitcoins as USD cash and deposit to a bank account. In this way, if a seller is entitled to $10, they'll receive $10 in their account and that balance will always remain $10 on their Circle.com account until they choose to withdraw to a bank account or card.
Using this method, the adult item seller is never at risk of losing money, which is one of the major concerns in the adult industry. In this way, we're actually place the risk on the buyer of the adult items, many of which are happy to use Bitcoin in an effort to keep their purchases off their credit card statement and out of the prying eyes of others. There's never a risk of charge backs, there's never a risk of your account balances losing value, and really the only thing that doesn't make this solution ideal is that as the middle man, it takes quite a bit more manual work to handle payouts, requiring both patience on the part of the sellers and also, honestly, a greater amount of trust that I, as the administrator of the site, will keep my word of making payouts.
If you have any questions, just let me know!
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