Porn voyeurism – what a weird web we spin
The world of pornography is alive and kicking on the net – it’s a reality and one that most of us try to stay well away from. Speedy from Cape Town finds himself looking at the most bizarre of sites – it’s a surreal keyhole into the world of online voyeurism:
PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED. REPRESENT DOES NOT PROMOTE NOR CONDONE PORN, IT IS THE CONCEPT OF THE SITE AND IT’…
s UNIQUENESS THAT WE ARE DISCUSSING…
SPEEDY:
“I was in the middle of replying to an email I’d received by SMS – as you do…
and while fingering the new menu on the funky D500 Samsung “eat-walk-play-Bob Marley MP3s-but-no-dishes-please” phone, I got an Instant message pop up on my laptop.
It was my SKYPE ACCOUNT, another MSN messenger but with free internet voice phone. It rocks.
(SKYPE is a revolutionary online telephone system that many people use instead of Telkom. You can contact anyone – as long as both parties have Skype on their PC, anywhere in the world and it works, you can chat for free.. I save a fortune on calls to the UK and USA. Oh.. and you can also buy a UK number 0207 3434 7834 and when people call you on it,.. it dials your PC!!) [Thanks for that lead BRU! Ed]
So hang on… did u get that – with Skype you can call a landline in UK, pay local rates and get hold of a South African u need to speak to. (u can get hold of them wherever they are in the world ? ) FREE with voice mail nogal. !! Madness man. Madness.
Annnnnyways.. ) Back to skype – the pop up says:
Piet : 18:20pm
Bored ?
http://www.livejasmin.com/ check out these webcams bru..
“Ag no man”, I think… but I click anyway.
WOW. What a strange mind-numbing concept and experience… I won’t actually go into LIVEJASMIN too much – that would be illegal – you need to see it for yourself – but it’s women, men and anything goes, all over the world – It’s a live on-cam PEEPSHOW using home webcams that beam intimate performances from ‘actors’ all over the world… the tag here is that you pay for a private one on one “session”. Curtains closed and alles..
This quite simply is Amsterdam’s Red light district, on-line. And from the looks of things it’s very popular.
But how come it’s so popular – isn’t this sort of thing a bit seedy – especially if you get found out? [Ed asks in a rather shocked voice?] Not according to Speedy – he psychoanalyses Jasmin’s premise:
Today, SMS, live webcams, skype MSN… all of us are progressively hiding behind technology’s cloak of anonymity.
It’s like rocking up at the beach and putting up a tent that you can see out of but no-one can see into. ( Unless you want them too. )
So you see that guy’s tent over there, you know he’s there and he you and you start to feel self conscious that you are all “visible” to the world.
Soon enough, the beach is covered in one-way mirrored tents. Communicating on their terms, when they are ready, and in complete anonymity.
You eventually lose the ability to venture outside in the sun without your tent, as your skin’s too fragile for the sun.
So you have to please yourself, virtually. ENTER livejasmin.. where the naughty can play without stepping out of their tent. [I was wondering what the tent analogy was about – now i get it… naughty! 🙂 Ed]
The performers on LIVEJASMIN are being paid by the minute, they beam live to the world from their living room, kitchen (or office!) and they can simply turn off the PC should any weirdos get a little too excited – all these performers must know that they are being watched by half of Bangladesh on a big glaring screen ( don’t laugh, they have one of the biggest sectors of sweaty palmed IT developers in the world! ) but money seems to talk.
Anonymously stripping and being paid, helping out the anonymous onlookers. Mad man. mad.
Go and see LIVEJASMIN, to put it bluntly its kinda like a live Teasers but with a strange sort of intimacy created by the webcams. Don’t go if you’re not into ladies removing their make-up. It’s a strange concept but a brilliant idea. It just shows us how small this world is truly getting and how clever technology can be…It also shows how many lonely people there are out there – [Ed – Or sickos depending on how you look at it.]
Anonymity, for all it’s coolness factor ( and I’m certainly guilty of using SMS when I should be showing a bit more spine and calling! ) is a virus, created by the ghost in the machine, perfected for the human psyche, and it’s unbelievably well coded too.
Go and see this site for interest sake – you’ll be anonymous too – of course…
