We Are All Pimps: The Sexcam Industry Is Raising Our Daughters—And We’re Blaming the Wrong Monsters

What will it take for us to drop the charade, throw up our hands, and finally admit it? The sexcam industry doesn’t sneak into our neighborhoods in the dead of night—it marches right through the front gates we left wide open. Schoolgirls are being recruited, groomed, and sold pixel by pixel, not by shadowy criminals—but by a society that trains them to see their bodies as currency, and their worth as a function of market demand. And we are all complicit.

Let’s cut the hollow outrage and drop-kick the convenient villains. No, it’s not just “predators,” “foreign mafias,” or “tech gone rogue.” It’s schools that prioritize narcoleptic lectures on internet safety but shudder at real talk about exploitation. It’s politicians who flood our screens with virtue-signaling speeches while funding is slashed for mental health, sexual education, and support for girls. It’s the billion-dollar social platforms whose “community guidelines” whack moles while the algorithm drools over adolescent skin. And, yes, it’s you and me—the adults so hypnotized by web-borne distraction that we don’t notice the recruitment notices landing in our daughters’ DMs.

Why does the sexcam industry target schoolgirls? Because it knows we have tenderized them already. Those glossy teen “empowerment” campaigns? Thinly veiled market research for who’s “brand-safe” for the next pay-per-view. Every “Like” on that influencer’s selfie? Another data point that teenage girls are ripe for the picking. We’ve created an ecosystem where self-exploitation masquerades as liberation, where “agency” becomes a euphemism for monetized trauma, and the line between “choice” and coercion is so blurred you can sell ring lights at high school supply shops.

Here’s the dirty truth: the sexcam industry is not a glitch—it’s the endpoint of a culture that trains girls to be shoppable long before they’re employable. It’s no coincidence recruiters find fertile ground in the bedrooms of minors armed with phones, social metrics, and a gnawing sense they’ll never stack up unless they strip down. We romanticize “confidence,” fetishize “hustle,” gaslight kids with slogans about “owning your narrative”—then point fingers in horror when their “narrative” leads to lucrative degradation on camera.

Let’s not pretend there’s a magic fix: no amount of parental panic, regulatory whack-a-mole, or censorship can reverse-engineer innocence into a marketplace designed to devour it. The sexcam industry is thriving because it’s just more honest, more efficient, more algorithmically optimized than the old-fashioned ways we’ve always commodified young women.

So, who do you blame now? The recruiters who slide into Snapchat? Or the system that made them inevitable? The truth isn’t just uncomfortable—it’s unbearable: If schoolgirls are being hooked by the sexcam industry, it’s because our world has been grooming them all along.

How many more will we sacrifice on the altar of marketable “empowerment” before we admit the monsters are inside the house? The devil didn’t seduce our children. We handed him the keys.

This article was inspired by the headline: "Sexcam industry recruited us while we were schoolgirls, say models."