As one of several commenters noted, "If you like a specific camgirl or amateur actress, you gotta pay to get their videos. You might find some online but thats it. This led to an illuminating discussion on what exactly viewers get from the cam girl experience that they dont find on other sites; namely, personal interaction.

Former camgirl here, another user said. Like 80 percent of my money was made in private shows, and a surprising amount of it was just lonely guys wanting [to] talk. While Im naked, obviously. But still. Her remarks prompted others to chime in on the emotional labor that is often ignored but innate to sex work.

Professional naked people one-on0-one always end up just socializing and therapy, said one commenter. No one wants to admit they just want genuine human contact so they pay for topless human contact. I always found it funny that sex work is looked down upon because the majority of the work is being a professional friend with healthy boundaries.

While sites like PornHub cater to a wide variety of tastes, a more discerning viewer might still prefer to pay for what they want, especially if theyre into newer porn mediums like VR, which have yet to fully break into the mainstream, or if they have a particular fetish. I think VR stuff is the one thing thats totally worth paying for sometimes, one commenter said. Second thing has been if I really like a particular model/actress, or I guess for some people if you have a specific interest.

As with any other industry, the economic law of supply and demand applies here. When a business knows it has a certain number of paying customers who are willing to fork out for their product, theyll invest in making more. And your favorite studios will only survive as long as they can afford to keep shooting.

As adult film producer and performer Jessica Drake once told Men's Health , "When a customer joins a paid porn site, a subscription service, or buys a DVD, they're supporting the actual people who have created the product, and essentially enabling that site, company, or person to continue to create more porn.

If were being honest, weve all encountered those barrages of pop-up ads which appear at the worst possible moment. But just as a YouTube Premium subscription would, paying for your preferred service makes all of that nuisance advertising a thing of the past.

And if your main concern is that your porn purchases will show up on your credit card statements, you can stop worrying: The entire industry is built around knowing what people want and also valuing peoples privacy. Pretty much every adult site out there processes transactions through an intermediary company or generically named vendor account, so any charges will appear entirely innocuous. And these companies, just like Amazon or eBay, value your business-so you can rest assured that your personal information is safe.