bengaluru j k have been married for three years now as part of their attempts to keep their sex lives interesting they began experimenting with live streaming their intimate encounters their shows slowly gained popularity and soon there were people contacting them requesting the performances of specific sexual acts they were willing to pay too it felt a little weird in the beginning we traded streams of sex acts on cams only with couples and single women and occasionally men who came across as being decent now we perform for cash says k she charges up to rs 3000 an hour for viewers who want to watch her have sex with j j k maintain their anonymity by wearing masks or balaclavas welcome to the world of webcams bengaluru stylefrom jennicam to jasminemodern webcam streaming of a sort was pioneered by jennifer ringley an american college student in 1996 ringley then 19 years old installed a webcam in her college dorm room every three minutes the camera would take a picture and a web page would refresh to show the latest picture the pictures were remarkably candid showing everything from ringley reading a book or ironing her clothes to her masturbating or having sexringley shut down her site in 2003 and has no internet presence these days but what she started has expanded into a multimillion dollar industry today in 2015 a cnbc report estimated the adult webcam industry earned 1 billion annually webcam sites are visited by five percent of the worlds web users approximately 160 million people streaming site livejasmin has been ranked quite appropriately the 69th most popular website in the world according to alexa the internet analytics sitethe majority of webcam performers come from latin america or southeast asia but there are significant numbers in romania and some of the former soviet republics and eastern european companies as well in india however the webcamming industry is still tiny and numbers are hard to come bylow investmentit doesnt take much investment to setup a live streaming business a computer a camera and a fast internet connection are all that are needed abroad streamers usually need access to a webcam hosting site which handles payments but here in bengaluru access to skype or google hangouts is all thats needed26yearold b from kolkata moved to bengaluru a few years ago and works as a beautician she hangs around in adult chat rooms chatting with prospective customers i often confirm on cam all clothed that im a woman and then demand for my fee of rs 1500 for 45 minutes to be transferred to my ewallet once i receive the money i go ahead with a strip show on cam and dirty talk through the microphone mostly through skype or gmail hangouts she saysah from hennur bande has been in the cam business for the past few months live streaming is not her main source of income but something she does because she