Posted on 08/08/2010 3:34:25 PM PDT by thecodont
British women searching for clerical work got a startling response when they visited a government-run job center: applications for “sex line” jobs that would require them to strip naked on Web cams, according to Sky News Online.
The women, who went to Jobcentre Plus offices in Birmingham, Warwickshire and Shropshire, were told that they could earn up to 700 pounds (a little more than $1,000) a week in the jobs, which also would require them to carry on sexually explicit chats with customers. The recruiting agency, Faceclick, which features pictures of its clients with titles like “fetish” and “just legal 18,” advises applicants to perform “activities that you feel comfortable with” while nude in front of the camera.
One 19-year old woman told the Birmingham Mail she was surprised that a government agency funded by taxpayers’ money would be recruiting for the sex industry.
“My job in a call center is a fixed-term contract that’s coming to an end and I’ve just taken out a car loan so I’m desperate for work,” she said. “But I’m not so desperate that I’m prepared to perform disgusting acts on an Internet sex line.”
After the job ads were met with outrage, the Department for Work and Pensions began reviewing its procedures. Said a spokesperson: “We are aware of public concern about advertising these vacancies. We have undertaken a public consultation on this issue and we are reviewing existing policy in light of the responses received.”
Mediawatch-UK is calling for the ads to be removed.
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HOWEVER IT GETS WORSE. I MEAN MUCH WORSE. MEDIA WATCH- UK HAS RECENTLY BROUGHT TO LIGHT A NEW APPROVED INTERNET ADDRESS DESIGNED FOR PORNOGRAPHIC WEBSITES
An internet address designed exclusively for pornographic websites was yesterday approved by watchdogs.
Hundreds of thousands of explicit sites are expected to use the ‘.xxx’ address as an alternative to ‘.com’ or ‘.co.uk’ after its use was officially sanctioned.
Some 110,000 sites have already made reservations to use the suffix, known as a domain, when it is launched in 2011.
But critics said the address will create an ‘online red light district’. They also warned the change would make it easier for children to find indecent material.
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If you think this was bad read on.
The porn industry is hiring girls to have live sex chats with Apple iPhone 4 owners using its new video-call feature, it has emerged.
Using the iPhone 4′s Face Time , companies are developing video-sex chat services and are hiring workers through internet adverts in the US.
Many even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees.
FaceTime lets people call another iPhone 4 user and have live video conversations over a Wi-Fi connection through the phone’s camera and screen.
At this point you can guess what the feature are going to be used for.
Now in a growing period of unemployment and social degradation it might only be a matter of time before the job centre turns around and says you can’t refuse a job. But we have one for you, but it is ex-rated. What do you do then? There is NO doubt that wickedness is increasing and with it comes the technology to fit right in there. Once a person had to physically pop down to his local newspaper shop to buy an ex-rated magazine, then along came internet and the flood games opened up. Now new technology means you can be sitting at a bus stop riding a bus or even in a busy cue talking to some prostitute on your new video phone. You don’t even have to be at your computer to watch, now we have the new Apple iPhone 4. Think about this.
So the web cam business has a few openings?
I guess now we know what the "Plus" means!
It sounds like they have any number of positions available.
The UK sinks further every single day.
At this point you can guess what the feature are going to be used for.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe live video conferences? Nah, there couldn't actually be a legitimate application for new technology. Let's go ahead and ban it.
BTW, weren’t the fundies calling for the xxx domain, to make it easier to limit access to kids? Now that it’s there, it’s suddenly something bad? Red light districts serve a dual purpose: satisfy the consumers while keeping it out of other areas.
http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/8318154.Sex_ads_banned/?ref=rss
They figured out it won’t keep it out of other areas, it will only create more.
Not that I approve of this, but.....exactly how is this human trafficking?
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The German government tried to do something like this. They threatened to cut off a woman's unemployment benefits when she turned a phone-sex job. This was about 10 years ago. I never heard the results, but I think they backed off.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I've always thought that the proposed .xxx domain would help reduce unintended or underage exposure to porn sites. In fact, my current thinking is that no "adult-content" site should be allowed to masquerade as a simple .com; this would make it unlikely that anyone would accidentally run across such sites. I expect that the browser market will quickly adopt a parental control that blocks or filters .xxx domains and, if they don't, I can probably do it myself with the HOSTS file.
NOT TRUE!
Other phones may allow such apps, but Steve Jobs has personally said, NO PORN APPS ALLOWED on Apple iOS devices.
You would have to jailbreak the iPhone and void your warranty to have a porn app like this on the iPhone.
Try google's Android phones if you want easy porn. They do not have any reason or even the means to stop any app good or bad or virus laden.
No you wouldn't - FaceTime is just a phone call with video over WiFi, not an app. Nothing Apple or anyone else can do to control how people choose to use it.
£700 a week? It's more than I earn. When virtue is despised and fecklessness rewarded, expect a diminuation of the former and a growth in the latter.
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