Exploring fetishes: understanding and catering to diverse desires

Fetishes are the backbone of any cam site, no question about it. Just picture this: if you were someone with a fantasy that most people deemed unconventional, where would you go to give in to your secret desires? Exactly, to a cam platform, where you will find exactly what you’re looking for with nobody to judge you for it.

With this core idea in mind, it’s easy to realize that fetishes are where the money is. Fetish models get a target audience that didn’t find them by chance but rather searched for them, and if they like what they see, they’ll become the most loyal of clients. Moreover, focusing on certain fetishes also helps diversify your shows and have something to suit all types of tastes.

What’s more, you don’t even have to rack up your brains to come up with content ideas; why struggle trying to find your niche to make money from, when you can already make a killing with the different fetishes out there?

Some people get turned on by a part of the body that is not commonly considered sexual, such as hair or feet. Others may have a strong soft spot for a particular lifestyle that allows them to live out their fetish in erotic roleplaying, such as bondage or sadomasochism. In a nutshell, fetishes come in a wide variety of forms, from ordinary to extreme, and as a cam model, that’s good news for you, because it means you have many niches to choose from, as we’ve already mentioned.

If you want to be a good fetish model, focusing on only one fetish and specializing in it is better. You know what they say: jack of all trades, master of none. However, it’s completely up to you if you want to switch it up and try different ones. You could even do a thematic week, featuring a different fetish each day of the week.

Choosing the best fetish

The fetish offer is very broad, so to narrow down your search and figure which fetish is the right one for you, think of the following:

Choose a fetish or kink that you also enjoy in your sex life

• Ponder which fetish you would feel most comfortable working with
• Research what type of content, activities and outfits they would entail
• Check if the platform you’re using has a special category for that fetish
• Keep in mind the competition

How to become a fetish model

Market yourself

First things first, create social media accounts specifically devoted to your fetish mode profile. Twitter, Instagram, TikTok… (be careful with the last two as it’s easy to get censored). Post sneak peeks of your content, let everyone know about your upcoming fetish shows, and attract new fans.

Post fetish content

Your public content is your store window into your room and profile, so make sure you fill it with related photos and videos. You can also add paid ones so fetishists can enjoy footage aside from cam shows. The point is to post fetish content that aligns with what you do in your fetish shows.

Create a fetish Tip menu

Add custom fetish-related activities to your Tip menu so that users can request them directly during the show. If your cam platform has the option to add different Tip menu presets like Stripchat has, you can have two different Tip menus; one for your normal shows and another one for your fetish ones. Just activate the one you will use before going live.

Verify for your fetish category

If your cam platform has your fetish as one of its categories, apply and verify to be displayed there. This way, your target audience will easily find you.

Fetish ideas to jazz up your cam shows

Foot fetish

This one never goes out of fashion. Foot fetish is one of the mainstream sexual kinks leading the scene.

Feet, toes, and angles are a foot fetishist’s turn-on. This kink involves normal sexual activities such as hand jobs, oral sex, and intercourse, but with an element of feet added into them. Consider teasing your viewers with your feet and incorporating different filming angles that target them.

It is important to know your audience very well since some people may get turned on by smelly or sweaty feet, and others by seeing a beautiful pair of feet with perfect pedicure in high heels. Get familiar with your viewers so that you can tailor your show to their taste.

BDSM

Though some people started embracing the dark side of sex after the Fifty Shades series debut, truth is BDSM has been around for a while. It’s one of the most common fetishes, and it involves a person being tied or bonded to be tortured or teased. Someone is always in charge, and the other one is the submissive who does as they’re told.

The BDSM starter pack you should get hold of if you want Christian Grey’s seal of approval in your shows includes but is not limited to whips, handcuffs, ball gags, and other apparatus we wouldn’t want our parents to find in our room.

ASMR

Ever since ASMR blew up a couple of years ago, it hasn’t stopped gaining popularity. Its acronym stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, but it’s also broadly known as “brain orgasm”.

You know that tingling sensation that moves down your spine in response to certain visual, auditory, or haptic stimuli? So that’s what some people are making money from with their multi-million viewed videos folding towels or nail tapping. I say it’s your moment to shine and hop on the trend. You can feature gentle whispering, soft speaking, relaxing hand movements, or brushing sounds in your shows to elicit that state of utter relaxation in your viewers. In return, you will hear the enticing sound of tokens hitting your account. Can you feel the goosebumps yet?

Exhibitionism

We all have a little exhibitionism in our blood. I mean, who hasn’t fantasized about having sex in a public space? Can’t blame us, that rush of adrenaline is addictive. People with full-blown exhibitionism fetish achieve sexual pleasure by allowing others to watch them. In this case, they can fulfill their exhibitionist dreams through you; take your cam show to the street – Stripchat has you covered with its app-free mobile broadcasting – and create the illusion that people may catch you in the middle of the hot action.

JOI

If the term JOI doesn’t ring any bell, maybe “jerk-off instruction” will. The art of instructing someone when and how to pleasure themselves has recently become a big market segment for cam models. Possibilities here are endless since you can give your detailed and explicit instructions while teasing or performing other sexual acts. It’s mostly mixed with other fetishes like foot worship or BDSM, so you can get creative.

Small penis encouragement (SPE)

You’ve probably heard about small penis humiliation (SPH), but how about small penis encouragement (SPE)? This fetish is more popular than you think, with a lot of guys looking for someone to give encouragement words about their small dicks.

Unlike SPH, SPE is generally not done in a domination kind of role-play, and there are two ways to approach it: combining it with SPH, or sticking only to the encouragement part.

For the first approach, you can use words like “Omg it’s like a baby carrot! But I love it because I can fit it all in my mouth”. So the idea is to start with small penis humiliation (in a more relaxed way than in SPH, it’s more like just teasing) to then continue with words of encouragement. You want to poke fun at the size but at the same time you’re saying that you like it that way.

For the second approach, you just skip the SPE and focus merely on SPE. It goes something along the lines of “I don’t care how small it is” or “I love small dicks”. Complement these words of encouragement with the use of toys, like small dildos that might resemble their small dicks, and you will crush it.

Whatever approach you lean towards, you can experiment with it and add jerk-off instruction to the mix, for example. Tease and encourage them to stroke their penis with a “make that little dick come for me, show me how much you love me”.

You can also combine SPE with the girlfriend role-play experience, to make it more intimate and romantic. Tell them that you don’t care how small it is because it satisfies you, and so on.

Boot worship

This one might not be that common, but it’s worth mentioning. While boot worship falls under the umbrella of the more general boot fetish, it has its own femdom twist with the addition of a dominant/submissive dynamic. Elements of kissing and licking are often part of the boot worship process.

If you wish to create this kind of content or feature it in your shows, make sure that the frame and the lighting expose the texture and the fit of the boots, as they are key elements. In boot worship, it’s all about the angles. Users are putting the boot up on a pedestal, so you have to use your filming angle to create a sense of submission, that is, shooting your boots from below.

Regarding the type of boots, it doesn’t really matter: knee-high, stiletto, rubber, thigh-thigh… they all have fans.

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