This is a CBC Podcast. A BBC World Service and CBC Podcast production.

Before we start, please note, this series contains adult

adult themes and strong language.

Roberta Marini is part of an exclusive event, a live video meetup, adults only.

How are you?

Roberto's typing questions into the chat alongside other men who've also paid to be there.

There's John and Big Guy.

Hi Big Guy.

The voice belongs to the woman performing on screen, Janessa Brazil.

The men can watch her, but she can't see them, just their typed messages. She's sitting on the edge of a bed wearing lace lingerie and flipping

a mop of long black hair this way and that, grooving to the music. She's a cam girl, a woman who gets paid to stream explicit

material live on the internet via webcam. John's questions appear in the chat. Do you ever do a lap dance?

For fun?

Or for money?

For fun, John.

Beside her is a homemade carnival will,

like one you'd see on a game show, only this one is made out of cardboard and markers.

When it spins, winners land on triangles that read, Shake-Arse, flash titties, and ride pillow.

Everyone is having a great time, except for Roberto, who's heartbroken. Janessa Brazil is the woman he loves,

the woman he wants to build a life with.

And now, here she is,

half naked on the internet,

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