‘My Life As A Skype Sex Worker’: Girl Opens Up On Internet Stripping And Masturbating For Strangers To Make Money

The seedy world of online stripping has been unveiled in a tell-all expose penned by one such former 'cam-girl' who used to strip and masturbate for male viewers – whose credit cards were then charged by the minute.

The former Skype #sexworker blogged her account of internet stripping on Refinery29 under the name Abigail Fox, explaining how she entered the industry after seeing an advert for the job on Craigslist while living in Los Angeles in 2009.

The classified spoke of how girls made 'up to $500 a day' (£311) entertaining men from the safety of a local studio using just a laptop with a built-in camera, and promised 'no hands-on'. It sounded easy, she thought.

Abigail says: 'My first client was a guy named John who just wanted to talk. For three hours. When we finished, I was $270 (£168) richer, and he felt like he knew me. 'Those clients seemed like such a cliché: The lonely guys who were looking for a pretend girlfriend for a couple of hours. 'Usually, all she saw of the man were typed words on a screen. But sometimes continues a client had a camera and asked if she'd like to see them: 'In cam-world, I was always very enthusiastic. 'I just loved taking off my clothes and sucking on my fingers. I loved talking to them about their fantasies, and I loved seeing them masturbate through grainy cameras trained on laps sitting in swivel computer chairs.

'It was the most customer service-oriented job I'd ever had: I had to be engaged, teasing, and friendly, while still managing to take down the guys who were just there to waste my time or get a freebie.' Eventually Abigail began working from home which meant she didn't need to give the agency a cut and could do whichever hours she liked from the comfort of her own home. 'With one eye on the timer, I stretched and bent my way through private sessions, trying to prolong everything 'Explaining how she learned tricks to net herself more cash, she says: 'With one eye on the timer, I stretched and bent my way through private sessions, trying to prolong everything. 'I got adept at taking my clothes off very slowly, and letting the camera travel over the planes of my body as if I was simply teasing the client, instead of watching the money rack up. 'I suggested treats: "Oh, I have another toy you'd love. Let me get it!" If I could get them to pay for staring at an empty screen in anticipation, I would. 'But eventually, she says, she became jaded, exhausted by the myriad fake personalities she had created to speak to clients.

But eventually, she says, she became jaded, exhausted by the myriad fake personalities she had created to speak to clients and her boyfriend grew tired of her subconsciously slipping into #stripper-mode whenever they had #sex.

So she quit, abandoning her online profile and quietly slipping away from that world and back into her own one.

'Today, I barely think about it,' she says. 'Except when, occasionally, I find myself accidentally looking back over my shoulder at a current lover as I undress, bending seductively forward just like I used to

AGBANI DAREGO IS THE NEW FACE OF N50 NIGERIA POSTAL STAMP

 

The beauty queen, who brought glory to Nigeria in 2001 by being the first black Miss World, shared the good news on her Instagram page yesterday. Her face will be used on Nigeria's N50 postal stamps. Big congrats to her !!!

 

HACKERS BROUGHT THE INTERNET. TO ITS KNEES

n Wednesday, 27th March 2013, internet users around the globe faced slowed down service thanks to what is being described as the biggest cyberattack in history. The BBC reports that, “A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet. It is having an impact on popular services like Netflix – and experts worry it could escalate to affect banking and email systems. Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks. Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit organisation which aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content. To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists – a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes. Recently, Spamhaus blocked servers maintained by Cyberbunker, a Dutch web host which states it will host anything with the exception of child pornography or terrorism-related material. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claims to be a spokesman for Cyberbunker, said, in a message, that Spamhaus was abusing its position, and should not be allowed to decide “what goes and does not go on the internet”. Spamhaus has alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with “criminal gangs” from Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack. Steve Linford, chief executive for Spamhaus, told the BBC the scale of the attack was unprecedented. “We’ve been under this cyber-attack for well over a week. Steve Linford, chief executive for Spamhaus, told the BBC the scale of the attack was unprecedented. “We’ve been under this cyber-attack for well over a week. ”But we’re up – they haven’t been able to knock us down. Our engineers are doing an immense job in keeping it up – this sort of attack would take down pretty much anything else.” Mr Linford told the BBC that the attack was being investigated by five different national cyber-police-forces around the world. He claimed he was unable to disclose more details because the forces were concerned that they too may suffer attacks on their own infrastructure. The attackers have used a tactic known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which floods the intended target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render it unreachable. In this case, Spamhaus’s Domain Name System (DNS) servers were targeted – the infrastructure that joins domain names, such as bbc.co.uk, the website’s numerical internet protocol address. Mr Linford said the attack’s power would be strong enough to take down government internet infrastructure. ”If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down instantly,” he said. “They would be completely off the internet.” The knock-on effect is hurting internet services globally, said Prof Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey. “If you imagine it as a motorway, attacks try and put enough traffic on there to clog up the on and off ramps,” he told the BBC. ”With this attack, there’s so much traffic it’s clogging up the motorway itself.” Arbor Networks, a firm which specialises in protecting against DDoS attacks, also said it was the biggest such attack they had seen. “The largest DDoS attack that we have witnessed prior to this was in 2010, which was 100 gb/s. Obviously the jump from 100 to 300 is pretty massive,” said Dan Holden, the company’s director of security research. “There’s certainly possibility for some collateral damage to other services along the way, depending on what that infrastructure looks like.” UPDATED:  Gizmodo has published a story debunking the widely published reports as exaggerated

19-YEAR OLD AMINA WHO POSTED TOPLESS PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK THREATENED

Campaigners including Richard Dawkins have called for a day of action to support a young Tunisian woman who appeared to post pictures of herself topless as part of a feminist movement in the country, and was subsequently threatened with death by stoning.

The 19-year-old activist, identified only as Amina, posted on the Femen-Tunisian Facebook page a topless picture of herself with the words “F**k your morals” written across her chest.

Another controversial image followed, of the woman smoking a cigarette, baring her breasts, with the Arabic written across her chest: “My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour”.

Tunisian newspaper Kapitalis quoted the Wahabi Salafi preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: “The young lady should be punished according to sharia, with 80 to 100 lashes, but [because of] the severity of the act she has committed, she deserves be stoned to death.

“Her act could bring about an epidemic. It could be contagious and give ideas to other women. It is therefore necessary to isolate [the incident]. I wish her to be healed.”

If she committed the offense in Tunisia, Amina could be punished by up to two years in prison and a fine of 100 to 1,000 dinars [between £40 and £400], local media said.

CELEBRITY BLOGGER PEREZ HILTON SHOWS OFF 3-WEEKS OLD SON...

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The millionaire blogger welcomed his son through a surrogate just three weeks ago and he's already showing him off in the media. He's setting up interviews and organizing magazine photo shoots with the infant who was born a premature. The photo shoot above was for LA Times. Cute baby!

67yr old grandma found dead in SA after meeting with Nigerian man she met online

Mr Omokoh, who would report to being the last person to see her alive, vanished after speaking to police.

One of Ms Jacobs' six children, who did not want to be identified, told 6PR radio in Perth on Monday her mother had been to South Africa four times, initially to meet another man.

"She wasn't naive when it came to other countries, we lived in Malaysia for many years," she said.

When the woman's brother received a phone call from a South African guest house, the siblings who had warned their mother against what they believed was a scam relationship, were in disbelief.

"I thought it was a hoax and I wouldn't believe that my mother had actually passed so I rang the consulate," the woman said.

"A couple of hours later they called me back and gave me their apologies."

A joint operation between WA Police and Consumer Protection, codenamed Project Sunbird, had sent Ms Jacobs a letter warning that she may be the victim of fraud, but it was too late.

By the time the letter arrived in Ms Jacobs' mailbox she had already left for her ill-fated trip.

When her children met with detectives in South Africa, they discovered her money, jewellery, laptop and credit cards were all missing.

And then there was an empty pill bottle found near her.

"Anybody who knew my mother would know that there is no way that she would do that," her daughter told 6PR.

"This has gone on for four years and after four years there is a very strong element of trust that has been built."

One of Ms Jacobs' sons warned others not to head overseas to meet people they've met online.  "It could be a one-way ticket," he said.

Major fraud squad detective Dom Blackshaw said WA Police were now involved in the investigation and treating the death as "suspicious".

"These relationship frauds are being perpetrated by ruthless overseas criminals who are members of organised crime syndicates," he said.

"To travel to Africa to visit someone you have met on the internet is extremely dangerous and could, as in the case of Ms Jacobs, cost your life.

How do you motivate children to do their homework?

The best "punishment" for not doing the work is their grade. You need to make it very obvious that they are the ones who are in control of their own studying, and that if they don't work hard enough to pass, you are going to be sad when they fail, but you are not going to step in and do any of the work for them.

Be careful about threats and punishments to get your child to do homework. They may be less motivated to do it. It is almost better to not make them do it, let them fail for a brief period, and let them learn the lesson by themsevles. Then, if after say, five weeks, they still haven't learned a lesson, it's time to intervene.

• Have a set time each day when they must sit down and do schoolwork. This means no tv, no internet, no cellphones, no loud music (soft music is OK but no iPods or earphones because they do turn those up too loud and distract themselves). If they do not have homework that day (or if they claim that they don't), they still have to spend that time studying - have them read over their textbook and write down an outline of what they read into their notebook, or have them write out the important terms and definitions from the chapter, or have them recite what they have learned out loud to you. So long as they are spending that time studying, they'll learn something.
• Get a big family calendar. Write down every assignment's due date on this calendar - also include things like extracurricular activities, important events, and whatever else they need to plan ahead for! With a big visual cue in the kitchen or family room, they cannot say they didn't know something was due, or they forgot to study for a test.
• Bribe them! It's not as bad as it sounds - just as you work for a paycheck, kids need something to work for. If your kids are not motivated by the desire to get a good grade, then you have to come up with something else as a motivation. The only thing to watch out for here is the temptation to use "negative motivation" and take away something fun whenever they don't do well - that's not what I'm talking about, and it doesn't really work well anyhow. Psychological studies have proven that rewards help you change your bad habits faster and more permanently than the fear of punishment. Come up with some sort of reward with your kids - it could be a special movie night, or a small monitary reward for each good result, or a family trip - whatever they would want badly enough to work at their homework and "earn."

(2) - Don't think 'bribe', think 'positive reinforcement'. For most kids today computer, TV, X-box or Ipad time are major motivators so agree with your child that for each hour of completed homework time theycan have 30 minutes of 'media' time. But of course you have to monitor their performance - both in achieving the homework tasks and not over-running their reward time. If they've only earned 30 minutes 'media' time and the programme they are watching is 40 minutes then you have to turn it off (or record the rest) and get them back on task.


Rewards don't have to be this fancy though - studies have shown that even acknowledging someone works effectively as positive reinforcement, so a comments like, 'Well done! I'm really proud of you. That looks really good. Was it hard? Aren't you clever! Which part of it did you find hardest?' will motivate your child and strengthen their relationship with you

60 of the world’s happiest facts

1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.
3. The book cover to the prize winning short story collection, Spellbound, was chosen because author, Joel Willans, bought his wife’s engagement ring with poker winnings.
4. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.
5. The chances of you (as opposed to someone else) being born is about 1 in 40 million.
6. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels forgetting where they buried their nuts.
7. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow-fight in his motel room.
8. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.
9. Cancer death rates are down 20% in past 20 years.
10. The miles travelled by the Apollo 11 crew to the moon were greater than every single exploration mission to the New World combined.
11. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.
12. Cows have best friends.
13. Despite high infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies, not one of your direct ancestors died childless.
14. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing and recovery from physical wounds.
15. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.
16. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
17. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.
18. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.
19. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer life expectancy than at any other time in human history.
20. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis, and is the only organ in the body, which has evolved purely for pleasure.
21. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
22. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.
23. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used again.
24. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.
25. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.
26. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each others tails.
27. No matter how bad your day is going, somewhere in the world a fat man just dropped his ice cream.
28. If you say “my cocaine” you sound like Michael Caine saying his own name.
29. Male puppies, when playing with female puppies, will intentionally let the female win.
30. The next Star Wars will not be directed by George Lucas.
31. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
32.The kingdom of Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator.
33. The majority of European children born in 2013 will live to see the year 2100.
34. There’s an animal called a Dik Dik. And it’s the cutest antelope you’ll ever see.
35. Neurologically speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.
36. Every human being spent about half an hour as a single cell.
37. There are people, ombrophiles, who have a passionate love for rain.
38. Once your brain realizes that you’re dying, it releases DMT, one of the most powerful known psychedelics. This dilates your perception of time and allowing you to live inside your own mind for hours or even days.
39. No matter how long you live there will always be an amazing new food for you try.
40. A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
41. Aside from a sample in a lab, Smallpox is completely extinct. No one else will ever die from it again.
42. A pig’s orgasms last thirty minutes.
43. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
44. Sloths only leave their tree once a week, to pee and poo.
45. Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. They each keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.
46. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
47. Cows produce the most milk when listening to the song Everybody Hurts by REM.
48. Somewhere, someone is losing their virginity right now.
49. If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.
50. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see has been here since the beginning of time and it always will be.
51. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
52. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.
53. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing
54. Baby rabbits are called kittens.
55. Baby puffins are called pufflings.
56. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.
57. Worms communicate by snuggling.
58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits.
59. There’s a train station in Japan that’s supervised by a cat who lives inside the ticket booth. The staff have to treat her like their boss and she gets her own uniform.
60. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a sea sponge.

Why Media Role Models Matter - Help your kids find good ones.

There's no guarantee that a star will stick to a lifestyle that kids can look up to or that you'll approve of.

Media Role Models Have a Huge Influence on Kids

By the time our kids are in middle school, they start to look to their peers for a sense of what’s socially acceptable or desirable.

 Kids choose public persona as role models, but there are no guarantees that a star will stick to a lifestyle that kids can look up to or that parents will approve of.

Studies show a direct link between role models, advertising, and the effects that both have on our kids' behavior.

 

    Celebrities use the Internet to communicate directly with their fans.

Media is a gigantic super-peer

 

As parents, we have a natural instinct to choose who we want our kids to be friends with -- and who we'd rather they not hang around. The same instinct kicks in for media role models. We like iCarly because she's smart and kind. Ben Ten,maybe not so much.

In today's 24/7 media environment, in which kids may be spending more time with media than they are with their parents, choosing positive role models is more important than ever. At Common Sense, we often refer to media as "the other parent" that's how much influence it has in your kids' lives. Role models matter.

What it is?

You don't have to look much farther than the Ariel costume in your daughter's closet or the light saber in your son's toy box to know that kids emulate their favorite characters.

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By the time our kids are in middle school, they start to look to their peers for a sense of what's socially acceptable or desirable. Parents may remain the primary influence in their kids' lives, but the competition starts to get fierce at this age. This separation is entirely age appropriate. But when the media comes into play, the values you want to pass down to your kids may be competing against them.

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Why it matters

Our kids' media environment goes way beyond television. Influence reach out to kids via YouTube, video games, Twitter, and music  all of which are broadcast or easily accessible 24 hours a day. And as we all know, not all the characters or people who gain popularity through these channels have stellar role model credentials.

Smoking is a perfect example of how media stars make things look cool. Studies show that exposure to pro-tobacco marketing and smoking in the media more than doubles the odds that kids will start smoking. And half of kids who start smoking say they do so because they saw someone they looked up to smoking in the movies.

The good news is that there are plenty of positive role models you can point to that may influence your kids to make healthy choices, learn to respect others, achieve goals, and avoid anti-social behavior. Negative role models  especially ones who don't suffer consequences for their actions can encourage anti-social behavior, stereotypes, and even cruelty. Help your kids choose positive media role models who embody the values you want to pass down.

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Tips for parents of young kids

Limit screen time: Kids grow and thrive best through personal interaction. Spending time with them, playing, and reading are great ways to build a foundation to impart your values.

Find age-appropriate content: Kids ages 2-7 should be exposed to media featuring good role moles, racial and gender diversity, and no stereotypes.

Encourage positive socialization: Look for role models who impart positive social lessons, like sharing and being a good friend.

Respect differences. Encourage kids at this age to accept and respect people who are different by exposing them to media that include people of diverse backgrounds.

Tips for parents of elementary-aged kids

 

Avoid stereotypes. Point out strong female characters or male characters who share their feelings. Try not to reinforce stereotypes in media selection (i.e. princess movies for girls and truck videos for boys), since that can reinforce societal imbalances.

Reinforce your values. Point out words and behavior in popular TV shows, websites, and music that are both positive and negative examples of what you do and don't want your kids to model. What you say to your child is up to you, but have this discussion.

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Flag antisocial behavior, Children like to imitate and pretend to be their favorite characters. When characters say mean things or behave cruelly, discuss the consequences.

Go with the good stuff. Kids will be inspired by great historical figures, athletes, or TV stars. Take advantage of that adoration by pointing out their good traits, as in, "George Washington was honest. Honesty is an important quality." Not: "Lying is bad. Children who lie get in trouble."

Tips for parents of older kids

Embrace what they like. Rejecting your kids' love of popular culture can close off avenues of communication. Embrace their world, but establish clear boundaries about what you find acceptable and appropriate.

Help teens balance their need for rebellion and self-expression with an appreciation of acceptable social action. Kids need to understand how to communicate and use media wisely and ethically. If they engage with media that includes antisocial behavior, make sure they understand the impact and potential consequences.

 

Let older kids see things you don't agree with. But then discuss exactly what you don't like with them. Since we won't always be around, we need to make sure to instill critical-thinking skills in our kids.

Don't shy away from pointing the finger. If your kids (or their schoolmates) are heavy media users and they demonstrate or are on the receiving end of any antisocial behavior or experience eating disorders, addictions, low school performance or depression, connect the dots and disconnect the source.