Why Latin America Could Become the New Camgirl Capital of the Online Porn World Tim Rogers - Fusion
go to original July 19, 2015

As Latin America enters fully into the internet age, the adult webcam revolution could follow close behind.

Over the past five years Colombia has experienced a groundswell in its adult livecam industry, where mostly amateur models strip and perform sexual acts for online viewers. Studio owners say the industry now employs some 30,000 models in Colombia alone. Most of them work in agency studios, more than 1,000 of which that have popped up in inconspicuous-looking apartment buildings across Medellin, Bogota, and Cali. Thousands of other models work from home. Colombia represents an estimated 98 percent of all “latin” models in the adult webcam business, while the other 2 percent are in Mexico and Brazil.

Now Colombia’s livecam industry wants to export its model to the rest of Latin America. And the $10 billion business could find fertile ground in a region with improving internet bandwidth, increasing connectivity, a lack of government regulation, and a huge population of unemployed and underpaid youth.

“This market is still underexploited in Latin America,” says Ricardo Bedoya, a studio operator who claims to manages 2,300 camgirl models in Colombia. “There is huge potential for growth in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile.”

The Latin American expansion effort is being spearheaded by Colombia’s largest studio operator, AJ Studios, and the world’s largest camgirl platform, LiveJasmin. The goal is to franchise the studio model in other countries to create the conditions for a massive scale-up that could turn Latin America into the new camgirl capital of the world — a title currently held by Romania.

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