[ANSWERED] What is Chaturbate? And What is It Not?

Short Answer [18 words]: It is a virtual strip-joint. People pay to see girls get nude and masturbate. Not a dating site.

Medium-long answer [81 words]: It is an adult entertainment website where people, mostly sexy girls, broadcast live webcam video of themselves doing erotic things, mostly posing half dressed or nude and masturbating. The audience spends money via tipping to encourage models to do particular things, or by paying for private shows. Broadcasters get 50% of the money spent on them. Think of it as a virtual strip club where girls with hot bodies provide entertainment in exchange for money, and the club takes a cut. Many men go there hoping to find girlfriends or mail-order-brides which is a misunderstanding.

Long Answer to “What is Chaturbate?”

Chaturbate is the evolution of the online webcam site or cam girl site. Although it no longer allows anybody to broadcast video from their webcam, it has for many years been the place for people to go online and broadcast live webcam video of themselves naked and masturbating.

The hottest models broadcast regularly and build up a large following of fans. These models are mostly young girls but also include couples and cute guys, as well as transexuals. The vast majority of the business is attractive young women though.

The models, known as “broadcasters” at Chaturbate, are may initially be motivated by exhibitionism or the thrill of gaining a following, but they keep at it because of the money. Being online at Chaturbate can be very profitable and is a way to directly turn sexual attractiveness, and an engaging personality, into cash. For many models it is therefore a business and as such they are more like strippers in a strip club or models in a glamour magazine where they promote themselves, in competitino with other models, in order to grown a fan base.

The amount of money they earn as cam girls varies widely. It can be anywhere from pocket-money, through salary-level earnings to real life-changing amounts for those who treat being a cam girl as a serious profession and devote themselves to being the best entertainers they can. As with any entertainment profession, the genetic lottery helps a lot. An attractive figure and face, combined with the ability to engage a crowd, and also the willingness to masturbate for a very long time and orgasm easily are great assets for any successful cam girl at Chaturbate, or indeed most cam sites.

Question: What is Chaturbate?

People who come to watch the videos at Chaturbate are very varied in motivation. While a few are voyeurs in the classic definition, who are sexually excited by watching sexual activity without being involved, these are in the minority. True voyeurs are better served by the dedicated voyeur cam house websites such as Reallifecams, Voyeurhouse.com, Voyeur-House.tv, and Camarads Cam.

A much bigger motivation to visit Chaturbate and to spend time in the various chat rooms is to engage with the attractive models. While the models are visible and audible the viewers are only represented by text chat, unless they are using cam2cam which is rare, and therefore every viewer has a chance to interact with the model, which is something they might not be able to do in their off-line life.

Whether they are too busy, too married, or simply not confident enough to approach the hottest young girls in real life, in the virtual world of the chat room they can get involved. If they interact regularly, particularly by tipping or paying for private shows, then they can become favored fans of the model. This gives satisfaction to many viewers.

Some other customers of Chaturbate enjoy the ability to interact openly with their peers and with the models about topics of sex. If they live in an environment where sexual discussions, either of sex in general or of a particular niche or fetish interest, are not acceptable, then Chaturbate provides them with a safe outlet. It is perfectly possible on Chaturbate to find a model who is open to any fetish or special interest that a viewer might have, and so they may feel finally relaxed to talk about and explore that part of themselves which normally they have to hide.

Another major category of Chaturbate viewers are those people who wish to quickly be stimulated to orgasm but find pre-recorded porn to be too boring. At Chaturbate they can pay for what is in effect personalized and immediately delivered porn shows for themselves.

Chaturbate, therefore, is a place for viewers, mostly men, to develop online relationships with young sexually attractive broadcasters, mostly women, that would be impossible in any other situation. And in order to do that they are willing to pay money, in the form of tips or payments for private shows.

Virtual all Chaturbate broadcasters accept tips, which are amounts of money denominated in the virtual currency of “tokens” used at Chaturbate. Each token is worth about 10 cents to buy, and about 5 cents to the model who receives it.

Broadcasters accept tips of any amount, but generally they ofefr some kind of “tip menu” which shows how much they expect to receive in order to do a particular request. For example a model might ask for 50 tokens to display her breasts, or 500 tokens to insert a dildo in herself. Prices are very variable and there is no standard pricing.

Teledildonic sex toys, that is vibrators that are remotely controlled, and often worn internally by Chaturbate models. The popular Lovense Lush with the visible pink “tail” is the most common model used. By using suitable interfacing software the vibrator can be activated by the viewer’s tips.

This means that the actions of the viewer, spending money on the model, are directly and immediately felts as a physical sensation in her genitals. To which she will of course react. This creates a positive physical, emotional and financial feedback loop in which both customers and models are pleased. The limit is only in the amount of money the viewer is willing to spend and the amount of genital stimulation the model can endure. Though these vary it isn’t uncommon for both these limits to be very high and effectively unlimited.

Models also offer private shows in which a viewer gets exclusive access to her for the duration of the show, and as there is a per-minute fee associated with the private show it is expected that she will perform a show for the viewer which includes whatever he requests.

It is common for viewers to pay for a private show so that they can have a sense of privacy or exclusivity and may not particularly ask the model to perform a particular activity. Often a model will be taken into a private show only for the viewing customer to ask her to do “whatever you like”, which is normally code for masturbating and achieving orgasm. Viewers who ask for this enjoy the satisfaction of knowing they have pleased the model and that she has cum because of what they have done, in this case paid for a private show.

Some customers get heavily invested in their favorite models. Sometimes they forget no way they will ever get to meet in person and that the relationship is purely online and part of paid entertainment.

The models need to encourage their fans to be invested in their relationship, as only then will they generate an income from receiving tips and fees for private shows, but at the same time ensure that the relationship remains on a professional, if friendly and intimate, level.

It is common for viewers to enter the room of a cam girl and immediately ask if she has a boyfriend or is married, and ask where she lives. This is a clear indication that the viewer has mistaken Chaturbate for a dating or mail-order-bride site, and while it may be true that real-life relationships sometimes start online, this is not the intended purpose of Chaturbate.

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