Giving her age as “late 20s,” she lives in Brooklyn, seems forthcoming and down to earth, doesn’t take herself too seriously, and rakes in over $200,000 a year - all of which she claims on her taxes. And I kept encountering the same problem: most wouldn’t talk, many were hostile (unsurprising, given their line of work), some struck me as outright fakes. When I reached out to them for a follow-up chat, a representative told me that they “felt the tone of the conversation was borderline disrespectful,” and that future interviews were out of the question. After I requested proof of the $84,000 transaction, they became testy. It was a nice chat, until I started asking too many questions. It fills their bank accounts while satisfying the carnal needs of guys who get off on giving money to demanding women. The women, Maitresse Madeline and Mistress Lorelei Lee, made names for themselves as actresses in adult films, but they also indulge in the sexual art of “financial domination,” or “fin dom,” a craft that sounds like a cross between S&M and a big-store con (albeit, with extremely compliant marks, dubbed “pay pigs”). Just wiring the money was turn-on enough. But he never bothered to collect his prize.

He was Australian, they said, and the money was supposed to be for a session of live online camming. This past January, during the run-up to the annual Adult Video News Awards in Vegas, two provocatively clad women told me about a guy who gave them $84,000.

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