Photographer Hana Jakrlova explores a Prague brothel where patrons can have sex for free if they allow their experience to be broadcast live on the web:
Because the internet viewers are the only ones who are financially involved, it changes their role in the relationship, she says. In many ways it makes the viewers the johns and makes the real johns part of the prostitution. …
For Jakrlova, this type of service is indicative of a larger, ominous trend of broadcasting more and more intimacies across the globe via the internet. "I really do believe that instead of enhancing our lives, the process of sharing online is banalizing our experiences to a certain degree. It takes a conscious effort certainly on my part to be not be wrapped into it and to keep perspective. The virtual world in my opinion will always be secondary. Like the Buddhists say, ‘Here, now.’"
(Photo by Hana Jakrlova of the Polar Bear room: "A pool-like "bed" guarded by a roaring polar bear is equipped with a telephone just like the other rooms. The camera operators in the control room on the fourth floor sometimes give a call with instructions during intercourse, asking the prostitute to position herself at a better angle for one of the cameras.")
The Dish 