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I started camming on iFriends back in 2000 under the name TastyTrixi.

After that I branched out into phone sex, webmastering, blogging, voyeurcams and running my own membership-based porn sites featuring me and my boyfriend. Still, iFriends is where I got my start and private webcam shows are what broke my sex-work cherry so I guess I have a special attachment to that site and feel like one-on-one camshows are somehow more “real” than other kinds of internet porn.

Like a lot of camgirls, I have had a love-hate relationship with iFriends with tons of good experiences balanced out by lots of frustrating and annoying ones. At the time of writing this six years after I signed up there, iFriends is still the biggest pay-per-view webcam site with the most performers and the most members. I’m not saying that all the other camsites are crap or that iF is perfect, just that those other sites have never been able to beat iFriends and they probably never will. IFriends is still the site with the most free content for free membership while retaining amateur charm. I love browsing around it and feel that I’m truly seeing private, unique, intimate glimpses into other people’s lives even though virtually everyone exhibiting on there is doing it primarily to make money.

It was on iFriends I learned that a few tiny pixelated cam captures could make guys blow their loads, and that a choppy little video feed was even better. Things have gotten so much shinier and bigger and slicker in internet porn, but I still maintain allegiance to the naughty transgressive lo-fi appeal of little cam caps and clumsy camshows. A lot of exhibitors (aka “chathosts”) on IFriends now offer high definition videos, high res photos, and all kinds of other bells and whistles and “bigger better” features, but it’s still the little 320×240 archive photos and awkward homemade video clips that delight me. It’s the knowledge I have of other girls when I see their efforts there, the knowledge I have that they are alone in a room somewhere trying to make some money, and being damned glad when they do. It’s the knowledge I have of their customers and how they come to rely upon a handful of favorite chathosts who come to know their preferences and deliver good shows.

It’s also the sheer volume of people surfing, working and buying shows on iFriends that makes me want to blog about it; buying and selling internet peep shows isn’t something anyone talks about in polite company, but obviously there are millions of people doing it. It fascinates me that so many people are involved in something that’s still kept so secret and taboo. Peering into that world thrills me and I want to share some of that thrill here on LiveWebWhores.com.