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January 13, 2014
Man Pays $42,000 for Private Webcam Session With Dominatrix.
Source: Mashable.com. - Mashable.com - USA
USA - SAN FRANCISCO - While you schmoes were dragging your butts in the cold to your desk jobs while trying to prevent snot from freezing on your face, a San Francisco-based domme named Maitresse Madeline
, (NSFW) was most likely sleeping pretty in her cozy bed. Why? Because Maitresse Madeline doesn't leave the house for less than $40,000 a day.That's how much an Australian man was willing to pay for a private, one-on-one session with her. During a Kink.com auction yesterday, the unidentified buyer shelled out a staggering $42,000 for
what is believed to be the most expensive webcam session of all time.
The record-breaking bid was the culmination of a two-week auction on Kink.com's Divine Bitches, a new femdom website helmed by the Maitresse. Although the idea for the auction was conceived at least in part as a way to promote the project, by the third day of bidding, offers had already reached $10,000, indicating that the auction had taken on a life of its own.
To the average porn consumer shelling out a few hundred bucks for credits on LiveJasmin or Streamate, $42,000 may seem like a ridiculous sum of money for an individual cam session. The amount is even more mind-boggling considering that at an hourly rate, $42,000 places Maitresse Madeline in the same pay grade as Oprah or Lady Gaga, as a Kink.com press release notes.
Yet in an
interview with Kinky.com, Maitresse Madeline says there's a simple reason why someone would be willing to pay top dollar for an interactive, one-on-one cam session.
"People are paying for something they don't get in their normal life, whether that's a fetish that they are afraid to live out in real life or maybe their partner won't give them what they desire and they look to cams to fulfill that missing part of their sexuality," she told the site. "People want to remain anonymous. [...] Whatever your reason is, it's a custom-made experience just for you in real time with no strings attached, whenever you want."
The bid also makes sense in light of the enormous popularity of the webcamming industry, which generates
between $1.5 and $2 billion a year.
Compared to the rest of the adult industry, which has taken
a serious hit, thanks to competition from free tube sites, webcamming is enormously lucrative. While most adult performers earn just a couple hundred dollars per scene, a successful cam model can earn as much as $40,000 a month without ever leaving her apartment.
So does Maitresse Madeline's $42,000 session signify an impending shift in the adult industry from pre-recorded to interactive content (and perhaps more importantly, what does it mean for those of us on the other side of the screen, who may not be able to spend $42,000 on getting a bored Estonian model on LiveJasmin to remove her bra?) While it's unclear if this will yield any lasting effects on the future of camming as a whole, one thing's for certain: That Australian dude is gonna get one hell of a show.
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Editor's Note: A previous version of this story referred to the site Divine Bitches as Greedy Bitches. It has been changed to reflect the correct name.
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