Sally, Sex and the Suburbs

Happily married and a mother of two, Sally Harris gave up a career in nursing to act out explicit sexual fantasies on her own website. Clever girl.

The Observer, November 2001

On a Wednesday evening last month, a 35-year-old woman called Sally Harris put on the following clothes: pale pink suit, little skirt, cream lace-top hold-ups, a see-through white chiffon blouse, silver bra and silver thong. At 10pm, she moved to the computer in the corner of her bedroom, put on a microphone headset, turned on her digital camera and prepared to share her sex-life with an anxious world.

Most Wednesdays there's a theme, and tonight's was Flirty Secretary Goes For Job. She put on some borrowed glasses. She began to speak, and blew kisses to her camera. 'Feeling ever so horny today, have been all day,' she said. Her internet audience typed back their enthusiasm, and told of their plans for the weekend. Sally's responses were punctuated with encouragement and laughter, and occasional flashes of her stocking tops. Then she said, 'Shall I tease you, G? Shall I come and work in your office?'
Not long after this, events began to take their natural course. 'I have done webcam without getting anything out,' she tells me the next day in the front room of her small north-west London semi. 'Though obviously the majority of the time it does get horny. Actually, it is very rare that I don't get undressed. Being watched turns me on big-time, which is why I do it. Last night, I took my jacket off, took my blouse off, kept my skirt on, took my knickers off, took my bra off. I had a request for a specific toy, but I got three out.'

Webcam night usually lasts from 10pm to 11pm, but last night she found it hard to shut down until 11.30 pm. 'I passed the interview,' she says. 'In fact, I got offered several jobs.'

Sally Harris has been doing these internet broadcasts for well over a year, but they are only a part of her busy nocturnal adventures. Her website offers an internet chat session four nights a week, and features a great many pictures and descriptions of sex sessions with her husband and their friends. On the first of these pages, she has composed a manifesto, an introduction to what she calls her Diary of a Sex Kitten. 'I'm not a porn star or a model,' she writes. 'I'm just a girl with a healthy sexual appetite who wants to share my experiences and learn by yours... People should be free to explore their own sexuality without the fear of negative stereotyping or social exclusion... I have always had a very liberated attitude to sex and don't believe in setting myself boundaries (apart from consent, of course). Whatever experiences you've had, your desire to have free uninhibited passion and explore and fulfil some of your fantasies will be respected here.'

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