"I have an idea," I tell Claire while we're out walking the dog.
"About what?"
"Let's make a video," I tell her and yank firmly on the leash to get the dog to settle down from the cat he's just spotted.
"Sure, but that isn't exactly a new idea," she teases.
"We could make it new somehow."
"How would we do that?" she asks, and we pause our walk while waiting for the dog to stop sniffing around and move on.
"I don't know," I say. "Just think about it I guess."
Time goes by and I bring up making a video a few more times. However, neither of us has thought of anything new. We've made all sorts of videos together and doing another one would be fun, but we both want to do something a little different. Then one Saturday Claire has a suggestion.
"Thought any more about what kind of video you want to do?" Claire asks me as we lounge around doing nothing.
"Haven't been able to come up with anything," I reply.
"Well, I had a thought," she says and trails off.
"Yes?"
"Just hear me out," she says, and after I nod, she continues. "What if we did a cam show?"
"You mean like but a video online?"
"I'd thought about that, but I don't want to do something so permanent."
"Makes sense."
"Then the other day I was watching some porn and getting off while you were still at work," she says. "There was a popup for a cam site and it got me thinking. We could make an account and just test it out. Someone could actually pay to watch us do it."
"I'm not so sure," I say. We'd done some crazy things over the past several months, but this was something completely different. Putting things on the internet is always a scar proposition even if they aren't videos or pictures.
"Wouldn't it be so hot to have someone watch us?" she says. "Think about it. People have caught us in the past and you know how horny that makes me. Think how sexy it could be to do it on purpose."
"You sure?"
"We can just try it out for a little bit. If no one is interested, then we don't do it," she says.
"But what if someone recognizes us?"
"No one is going to recognize us."
"What if they do?"
"What are they going to do?" Claire says. "Walk up to us and say they were jerking off to some cam site and saw us on it. Most people don't want to admit their watching anymore than we want to be recognized."
"I'm still not sure," I say, but I can tell she really wants to try it because she is pushing hard for it.
"We can wear masks and cover up our faces. Lots of amateur videos online do that," she says.
"I suppose we can try it but only for a week. If no one wants anything after a week, we give up," I say.
"Okay," she says.
She gets off the couch and goes into the computer room where my desktop is. She beckons for me to follow. I get up and follow her, and she sits down at the computer. She opens up a browser window and types in a name of some website. Apparently, she already knows where she's going. While she makes an account, I fish around in my electronics box for the webcam I bought when we had a long distance relationship. Eventually I find it and return to the computer to plug it in.
"We need a name," she says.
"Like an account name?"
"Yeah, something that people will click on and know it's us."
We brainstorm names for a little bit and settle on a completely ridiculous nerdy name Galadriel&Glamdring. One time I made a joke about naming my dick Glamdring after Gandalf's sword and Claire has never forgotten it. We test out the webcam to make sure it is working properly. We're not going to start now. We just want to set it all up. We figure out the whole site works by using tokens. Users purchase tokens with real money and then use those tokens to tip performers, interact with them, or pay for shows. A private show costs a certain amount of tokens per minute, but beyond that all costs are set up by us. Once a week performers get paid by the site based on how many tokens they've earned. There are some formulas for it, but we'd make anywhere from 50% to 80% of the cost of each token we collect. We spend a little bit of time browsing the site and figuring out how it works more. Finally we finish setting up the account.
The next day I sleep in because I'm lazy, and Claire goes shopping. I'm awake before she gets back, so I help her unload the groceries when she does arrive. She'd shopped around for a while, but eventually she found some masks. They're kind of like the old masks I had as a kid for superhero Halloween costumes. They really only cover the top half of our faces, but it is better than nothing. If we're going to be fucking on camera, we probably need our mouths anyway. Either Claire's enthusiasm is wearing off on me, or the more I think about it the more I like the idea. She wants to try it out tonight, and I agree to it.
That night I clean off the futon in the computer room while, Claire straightens her hair and does her makeup. She puts on some red lingerie to match the red thong I'm wearing. We fire up the webcam and log into the site. We noticed yesterday that some models just sit around and wait. Others masturbate and play with themselves in an effort to get someone to go private with them. We decide that this first night we'll just stay clothed and see what happens. It takes a surprisingly little amount of time before someone shows up in the chat box next to our stream. However, the person just harasses us with excessively dirty language, so we kick them out. A few more people come and go over the next two hours. Some of them we have a nice friendly chat with, but nothing more.
After the full two hours, we cancel the stream, but stay logged in. We look around at other people's profiles for a bit to get a better handle on what we're doing. Many of the solo girls have vibrators connected to the site somehow, and people can control them by tipping predetermined amounts. Most performers have a menu listed on their profile pages that says what tips will equal what things. Apparently these are things they will do in the public chat for tips and any specialty requests must be made in a private chat. We decide we need to come up with our own tip menu for the next time.
We're too busy on Monday to give it a try, but by Tuesday night we've come up with a menu. For more tokens, we'll do progressively more dirty things. The menu includes: kissing, body kisses, fondling, exposing Claire's tits, exposing my dick, exposing Claire's pussy, fingering/stroking, and licking/sucking. Each one has a time frame associated with it like Claire will suck my cock for 30 seconds or I'll lick her pussy for 30 seconds. The idea is that if they want longer they have to tip more and more.
Adding the menu does increase our traffic on Tuesday night. Several people want us to take our masks off, but we refuse. People do actually tip us and the most popular ones are of course Claire exposing her tits or pussy and her sucking my cock. We end up getting what we feel like is a lot of tokens, but in reality probably isn't. No one pays for private show although a few people inquire about it. They leave disappointed when we refuse to do their specific kink. When we're done for the night, we add onto our profile the things we will or won't do. It is probably a pretty vanilla list as far as sex sites go, but it is what we are comfortable with. There's nothing that would fall into the extreme category.
We cam again on Thursday and Saturday nights. We collect more tokens and it becomes less awkward each time, but no one pays for private. Claire and I decide that even if we enjoy it a little bit that the plan to do it for a week still stands. We're not making anything more than a few dollars, and it isn't worth it. We agree to give it one more try on Sunday night. So, on Sunday night we're once again on the futon. Claire's in sexy green bra and panties set. I have on my black thong. We get a few more tips in the first hour, so we kiss, fondle, lick, and suck. In the second hour, a familiar name pops back up. This person has been showing up since Tuesday. We're a little nervous when they pay for a private session. I ask Claire if she still wants to, and she says yes.
