Sexcam industry recruited us while we were schoolgirls, say models

A Colombian woman describes how she was recruited for sexcam work at 17 and encouraged to livestream from school.

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She says a studio looking for models seemed to be targeting teenage pupils in her area in Bogotá, Colombia's capital.

At 17, with a two-year-old son to support, she desperately needed money, so went along to find out more.

She says when she got there, it was a sexcam studio, run by a couple in a house in a run-down neighbourhood - it had eight rooms decorated like bedrooms.

Studios range from small, low-budget operations to large businesses with individual rooms set up with lights, computers, webcams and an internet connection. Models perform sexual acts which are streamed to viewers around the world, who message them and make requests via intermediaries, also known as monitors.