Webcams: hot or not?
One of my readers recently emailed me with this query: "Have you ever had an internet sex experience using a webcam or otherwise? What do you think about them?"
I'll answer the easy part first: I'm a technological stick-in-the-mud, so I don't have a webcam. My laptop is 5 years old, and I think it would die a horrible death if I tried to make it do more than the basic web-browsing, music-listening and blogging that I currently do with it. I have watched other people's web cams, but since I'm not all that interested in watching guys jerk off if I don't even have the chance of (ahem) hands-on participation, it's a lot less interesting to me than it seems to be for the guys who like the chance to be an exhibitionist.
So, yes, I've had a sex experience using a webcam, if you count me having the webcam window running in the background while a guy jerked off, but it didn't do anything for me, so it didn't feel sexual to me.
As for what I think about webcams... well, I've had some fun with sapiophile's, but usually when she and I are getting frisky and teasing another friend of ours, but that's mostly interesting because we all already know each other and are just playing around. It's not, for me, particularly hot. But I certainly know women who enjoy it a lot.
For me, I'd rather be doing it in person, or playing more with my imagination, which means either phone sex, or the much maligned "cyber". The benefits of playing face-to-face are so obvious that I won't go into them. But why would I prefer phone or cyber sex to webcamming? Well, what if I'm feeling cranky and out-of-sorts and don't feel like putting on a show? Or what if I want to think about doing something that's too logistically complicated to actually act out? Or what if I want to ... well, pretty much everything I'm looking for in a sexual exchange that's not in person involves my imagination, which works best if it's not distracted by having to watch someone or think about how I look while I jill off. Or, um, whatever.
So, no, I don't have much interest in webcams, but I'd actually be interested to hear from folks who like them a lot, because maybe I'm just missing something because of lack of experience or exposure.
Comments
Webcams can be extremely hot if you're a more visual person.. I've known girls who dug it and girls who were a little more like you as far as webcams go. For me, I find that webcams with another person are hot, but those pay-to-view webcam services where a paid actor or actress is at the other end are really pointless.
I think that the reason it's hot when it's another real person is that there's a whole 'girl next door thing going on; when the other person is a real person, you can more easily picture yourself with them.
Posted by: Steven | July 14, 2006 11:15 AM
Webcams are hot for exhibitionists sluts like me. I don't care much about watching, but BEING watched is a kick.
Posted by: sapiophile | July 14, 2006 12:28 PM
The closest I've come is recording streaming audio of an encounter. What do we think of that? I prefer it, as it leaves all the visuals to the imagination.
Posted by: b4f | July 16, 2006 11:16 AM