This article originally appeared on VICE France.If you're going to be stuck at home for the foreseeable future, you might as well enjoy yourself. And looking at the booming traffic to adult sites like Pornhub and Onlyfans, that's clearly been the thought process for the thousands of people trying to beat lockdown loneliness one jerk at a time.We spoke to four cam girls about how all this is affecting both their bank balances and their hopes for any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.
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Chloé Sanchez
"Since websites like Pornhub have made their content free during the lockdown, people expect the same of us. I actually offer a 'lockdown pack' – it's €34 instead of €39, and you can have access to my website, all my videos and my Snapchat."My workdays often go over 17 hours if you take into account all the videos, exercising, social media and setting up equipment. But I'm doing it because there is a lot of demand. The number of viewers on my free live shows has tripled, and on the 19th of March I had 360 visitors connected at the same time. At first, I thought there was an error in the server, but no, requests have gone up by 30 percent."There are lots of guys who are not looking for pornographic content. The other day, two guys asked me to stay fully clothed – they just wanted to talk. Anyway, I can't just spend the whole month dildo-ing myself – my body couldn't handle it."
Charlie Tantra
"I have the feeling people were excited at first about the idea of being able to jerk off all day, but now that has died down a bit. At the same time, my videos on Pornhub have never had so many views. I'm taking advantage of this in my communications strategy – I use the hashtag #lockdown for my erotica readings, I promote my paid videos and I've started a Friday evening happy hour show on Facebook. There were about 100 people in the first one."Lockdown or not, my work has stayed the same. The real problem is for sex workers [who depend on physical contact to make a living] – it's really shitty for them. I'm lucky to continue my job and combine it with other hobbies. For example, I'm studying for a culinary arts diploma, so I'm thinking about shooting naughty videos of me cooking in sexy outfits."