Jennifer Ringley

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American businesswoman who ingenuously turned exhibitionism into profit, keying into the universal voyeur in all of us. A self-employed website designer in Washington, DC, she has two cameras in her bedroom trained on her bed 24 hours a day, taking a photo every three minutes. Visitors to the site may see a new photo every 30 minutes; for $15 per year, they see the three-minute photos. Whatever "JenniCam" is doing at the time, sleeping, tossing, grooming or entertaining, she is unselfconsciously sharing it with her audience on www.jennicam.org. A creative website designer, she has leading edge equipment, and a brilliant marketer, she had sold 4,000 memberships by September 1997. At that time, she was able to count 100 million hits per week on her site, with 5,500 subscribers. The Washington Post did a feature article on her on 9/20/1997 and Mirabella magazine had a page in August 1998 in which they reported that she was seen by 325,000 hits a month and now had 10,000 dedicated Jenni-ites paying $15 a month. The lights now go off at night as her boyfriend refuses to perform for an audience, however she still titillates those who seek the prurient by making her bed while in the nude. JenniCam was the forerunner of a trend, as the few voyeur Web sites have grown from a handful in 1996 to more than 100 by August 1998, but not in Jenni's class. The sites mostly feature amateur photographers peeking up women's skirts or down their cleavage, appropriate camera work for the pre-pubescent male. Link to Wikipedia biography