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totally topless than shirtless with an ugly bra). Then she should run her fingers under cold water and tweak her nipples with them. If the cards aren’t running her way and she loses her pants, she should make a show of taking them off, but sit with her legs crossed.
    Technology Gives Nakedness a New Dimension
    Twenty years ago, when the first edition of this book was being written, this chapter stopped right here. That’s because there was no such a thing as sexting or websites featuring naked women who would become the new face of sexwork. (There weren’t even phones with cameras or computers with built-in cams. That kind of technology wasn’t even on the radar back then.)
    Now, an entire book this size could be written on sexting and webcam communities alone. The expansion of nakedness beyond what was once the almost exclusive domain of strip clubs and Peeping Toms has been nothing short of phenomenal.
    Rather than attempting to provide a grand overview of this technology-aided transition into how we now view nakedness, we’ll focus instead on the first and most famous camgirl, Jenni Ringley, whose willingness to broadcast every single aspect of her private life on the new invention of the webcam was unprecedented in the history of nakedness or technology.
    Cam Girls — Nakedness Briefly Makes Online History Through Lifecasting
    Until the invention of the webcam in the late 1990s, if you wanted to see a stripper strip, you had to leave your home and the stripper had to leave her home. Both of you would intersect in a club that featured strippers. But then came JenniCam, featuring the World Wide Web’s first cam girl.
    JenniCam was broadcast live from 19-year-old Jennifer’s Ringley’s dorm room in Dickinson College in 1996. This was when the best connectivity the web had to offer was dialup. For the first year or two, JenniCam would only refresh once every three to five minutes.
    Unlike today’s webcams, which stream in real time and are more of an x-rated peep show, the webcams would broadcast live 24/7. Early cam girls like Jennifer were referred to as “lifecasters.” The early webcams were the forerunners of reality TV shows like Big Brother, and with good reason.
    The webcam was on in Jenni’s dorm room 24/7. Much of the time, viewers would see nothing but an empty room. Other times, they would see Jenni eating or reading. Sometimes they would see her naked or her having sex with her boyfriend, or masturbating when she was alone, or performing a striptease. Jennicam viewership skyrocketed when her webcam started showing her having sex with her boyfriend.
    It wouldn’t be long before 100 million weekly visitors would see Jenni doing the same things they would see you doing if there were a webcam in your bedroom or living room 24/7. The difference, of course, is that few people would ever allow that kind of closeup lens into their private lives.
    Certainly there were far more graphic pornographic images available on the Internet for which viewers wouldn’t have to wait patiently in front of their computer screens like peeping Toms. But that was also the magic of the early cam shows. Viewers could be the ultimate voyeurs.
    A key part of the early cam girl experience was the girl’s blog or website where she would keep her diary or post her daily journal, answer viewer questions, and provide an archive of images. The early camgirl blogs were the forerunners of Facebook pages. Only a handful of cam girls would ever experience this level of celebrity and early social networking fame.
    JenniCam was live for seven years. It was the perfect intersection of new technology, exhibitionism, and voyeurism.
    The early cam girls don’t exist anymore online. They’ve been replaced by thousands of women who have joined cam sites that cater to customers who want to see women masturbate and act out special fantasies. The women set up cams in their own homes where they perform several hours a day. These are the new sex