# Having a client-facing day job while doing sex work on camera at night **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768 "2016-10-06T15:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/61 "2016-10-09T00:11:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wow. > Who knew? > > This forum requires that you wait 60 seconds between posts. Please try again in 1 seconds. There was a stretch of time in the 60’s and 70’s and into the early 80’s that Playboy was noted for having excellent fiction and interviews. They interviewed a remarkable number of very influential and “serious” people back in the day. [11 of the Best Articles: We Really Read the Old ‘Playboy’ for the Articles](http://www.alternet.org/media/11-best-articles-we-really-read-old-playboy-articles) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/62 "2016-10-09T01:28:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > What do you think they are if not actors playing roles? > > ISTM the only alternative is believing you’re watching real people truly behaving 100% naturally, a la candid camera but without the gag set-up. That it’s like watching security camera footage from a grocery store: just ordinary people going about their ordinary day. If you honestly believe most porn watchers are thinking that, well, … I don’t know what to say in response. > There \*is \*a difference between porn actors and most conventional actors. Namely the porn actors do all their own stunts. Lots of what conventional actors do is simulated although some do some of their own stunts. > > Lots of the enthusiasm in porn is just as simulated as is the gunfire in a police-themed show. As is the appearance of non-stop action cutting from position to position without stopping for a breather or to rearrange the props. > > I’m not maintaining that porn is high art. It’s pretty base. But the people on both sides of the camera are mostly doing a job for the money. Just like the guy who drives the cesspool truck. Heck on the Bizarro version of Discovery channel Mike Rowe could do a Dirty Jobs episode on making porn. It’s just as disagreeable as eel shucking, almost as slimy, but pays better. And the work’s mostly indoors. It may make no difference to you but the OP is not talking about someone acting in an adult movie. The person he is talking about is thinking of going into cam model work. That is where a woman sits in front of a webcam and masturbates while interacting directly to people in a chat room. They send in tips if she does what they like. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/63 "2016-10-09T01:42:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wow. > Who knew? I can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic, but just in case, it was very well known. The whole reason that _Playboy_ made such a big splash when it came out was that it wasn’t just another nudie mag. It was a lifestyle publication that espoused living the good life, which included good literature, politics, and the benefits of the sexual revolution. It was culturally influential—or at least far more relevant than just a porn publication—for a few decades. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/64 "2016-10-09T02:09:43Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It may make no difference to you but the OP is not talking about someone acting in an adult movie. The person he is talking about is thinking of going into cam model work. That is where a woman sits in front of a webcam and masturbates while interacting directly to people in a chat room. They send in tips if she does what they like. I was replying directly to **usedtobe** ’s contention that the folks appearing on-screen in porn films were somehow not actors. Which as you say is/was a mild hijack of the OP’s topic about live cam workers. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/65 "2016-10-09T03:08:07Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic, but just in case, it was very well known. Humor-It is a difficult concept. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/66 "2016-10-10T13:50:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I was replying directly to **usedtobe** ’s contention that the folks appearing on-screen in porn films were somehow not actors. Which as you say is/was a mild hijack of the OP’s topic about live cam workers. Being an actor and being a sex worker are not mutually exclusive. People appearing on-screen in porn films may be actors but they are also having sex for money. So it’s essentially the same thing for purposes of this thread regardless of whether or not they are actors. It’s not like an actor who performs an on-screen murder, where the entire murder is simulated. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768/67 "2016-10-10T14:01:34Z")
As I said in my first post on point. Porn actors do their own stunts. With all the risks, both physical and reputational, appurtenant thereunto. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-client-facing-day-job-while-doing-sex-work-on-camera-at-night/767768.md?page=3)