September 20, 2004
New online pornographic live shows cause alarm
The Internet Café Association of Cebu (Philippines) has discovered a new kind of online pornography which Internet users can pay to gain access to private rooms with naked women through their mobile phones, according to The Manila Bulletin Online.
"In the"load-per-view" online live show, a woman opens a chat room account then turns on her web camera to entice other online chatters.
When a number of male users start to chat with the woman, she will then ask them to send her cellphone load (i.e. transfer money onto her cellphone) so she can start undressing and do lewd shows.
"Most of the women doing live shows are college or high school students," said ICAC president Felix Cogal, adding that the show is often performed in dormitories, boarding houses or private chat rooms where the woman can freely go naked.
He said that ICAC is now monitoring at least five online accounts of women who go naked online in exchange of cellphone loads.
Cogal said the woman gets loads worth hundreds of pesos for just one show. When the woman asks for R100 load from her viewers, who could number 40 persons at one time, she would get R4,000 worth of load in just a matter of minutes.
This is alarming, Cogal said, because some students would skip classes and use their allowance to buy load in order to view online "load-per-view" shows. "
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