They are not superstars – one show nets them £40 for a 20-minute display, plus a couple of hours’ hair and makeup prep – but they make a lot more than they did when Kayla made sandwiches. The final couple, Kayla and Jack from Newcastle upon Tyne, were four months into dating when Kayla was furloughed from her job at a sandwich shop and they started their GeordieFuckers cam account to help make ends meet. The pricing structure was as much of a revelation as anything: 105 tokens to get feet licked, but only 25 more to show both peen (the menu doesn’t say peen)? I don’t know why this caught my attention when there was so much else going on in the frame, but I suspect it says much about me that I don’t care to dwell on it. She is also capable of asking the handful of Serious Questions such programmes require to provide a veneer of respectability to their actual mission of providing as much sex-adjacent action to viewers without getting shut down.Ī second couple, two young men named Callum and Cole who have been together for three and a half years, are online superstars pulling in £200,000 a year from punters who can choose from an extensive menu of activities for the couple to perform. Levine is perfect for the job: witty, non-judgmental, and refreshingly unable to keep a straight face when in the room with a couple putting on a livestreamed show. It was another of those programmes we’ve seen a million times before, designed to allow the audience to point/laugh/goggle at and/or note down business ideas from people living slightly more extreme sex lives than the average Joe. It offers a delicate yet probing look at the evolution of social mores and the collapsing distinction between the sacred and the profane under the pressure of technology that invites us to consider ourselves no more than fodder for its insatiable maw.
They are one of three couples interviewed in Sex Actually With Alice Levine (Channel 4), a new series executive-produced by Louis Theroux. “Then feelings just hit and we fell in love.” Now they have joint and individual cam sites and have sex both on camera for “more than a few thousand pounds a month” and off it for fun – although the line between the two seems pleasantly porous. Forced to live together in lockdown, they started having sex with each other to earn money online.