I’m in Eevie’s bedroom watching her work. She’s wearing a little black dress and drinking merlot from a shatterproof wineglass one of her viewers sent her after she’d broken a real one on camera. She makes almost $400 in the 45 minutes I’m with her, and she doesn’t do much besides talk to me (offscreen) about camming.
Eevie—like many of the models I spoke to for this article—broadcasts herself through the site MyFreeCams, or MFC. (“EevieLain” is her screen name.) Generally speaking, models get tipped via tokens (which translate to real cash) to masturbate on camera, but they can also create “topics” that aren’t sexual at all. Right now, Eevie’s goal topic is taking off her dress, and most of the tips coming in are for her topic of drinking wine. Neither she nor her viewers seem in a hurry to reach the topic. Most of her viewers right now are her “friends,” who seem happy just to hang out, listen to her talk, and reminisce about their shared stories…