THEIR CLASS PROJECT

Audrey and Jen were college roommates and coming up with rent was a challenge each month. With school full time and sports and part-time jobs, they had no idea how they'd earn enough to cover the bills and still eat. They even looked on craigslist, and when they couldn't find anything under the normal sections, they found themselves checking out the "adult" jobs. Many were looking to hire girls to shoot in videos. The pay was pretty good--$500 up to a couple thousand. It'd be enough to cover their rent, utilities, and some of school. But they didn't like the idea of just selling out to some creep-o posting an anonymous ad. They'd seen far too many TV shows about serial killers. The nudity didn't bother them, not even the idea of sex on camera. It was the total lack of any control that was terrifying.

One night, while surfing online for jobs, and seriously considering emailing one of the adult postings, Jen said: "Why don't we do this ourselves?"

"Whadaya mean?" asked Audrey.

"Well," explained Jen, "We could check out a camera from the media department. I know someone who works there and I could tell him its for a class project."

Audrey nodded. It could work. As students they could check out equipment for free. They could shoot their own movies, edit them, and then sell the content. They'd be in complete control of their bodies and what they did, and would also be keeping 100% of the proceeds. No middle man.

Their first video was just Jen stripping. She wasn't very good, and the lighting was terrible and Audrey didn't turn off the autofocus, but to their surprise, the tape sold immediately. They began better technically, and bolder in their storylines. They even did an outdoor flashing tape. They almost got caught at night on the campus, Adurey holding the camera, and Jen totally naked. It was the biggest thrill of the school year.

They made a dozen tapes, and sold each one. They couldn't believe how easy it was. They would go online and, just like researching for a paper, they'd figure out what categories of porn were popular. The themes were simple. They taped each other taking showers, and called it "college co-ed in the shower" and it sold. They did the outdoor flashing, and sold it as "naked on campus." One day Audrey saw Jen doing some Yoga, and told her to do it naked as she filmed. That sold. They got creative and pretended to put the camera in "hidden" spots to make it look like someone was spying on them unaware. Jen let her hair grow and they did a series of "hairy" videos, then, when she shaved, they filmed that, and made a "shaving" video, and then, once totally bare, put her hair in pony-tails and did a "barely legal" video. They couldn't believe that essentially the same thing could be filmed slightly different ways and they could get paid for all of it. The most popular was simply close up masturbation. This was perfect, because, as Jen said, "We do this anyway, why not get paid?"

The roommates were already close before starting their "class project," but filming each other naked and seeing each other masturbate openly broke down any walls between them, modesty was non-existent, not even an issue. They never got rich, and after a while the thrill of breaking all the rules wore off. But they'd paid their way through fall semester and had enough saved up for spring and to graduation in June.

During the process, they asked themselves if they'd regret taping themselves naked and masturbating. They tried to imagine a professor seeing the video and recognizing them, or projecting into the future to a time when they had husbands and children. No, they decided. Everyone has a college story, and they would own theirs.