Like many 17-year-olds, Millie* has her own Web site, where she keeps an online diary and scrapbook. There's an artistic photo of ice-covered trees she shot after a snowstorm hit her Mississippi town in February, there's a section dedicated to the band 'N Sync, and, of course, there's the obligatory list of her favorite links (backstreetboys.com, nellyfurtado.com, rickymartin.com) the truth about cam girls. She says she built the site in part to show off her Web- designing skills, which are pretty good. But that doesn't explain why she gets about 6,000 hits a month. That popularity makes more sense once you follow the link to her fan club on Yahoo!, where some 1,000 registered members log on to gawk at the photographs she's taken of herself. 

They don't just look, they also post their deep opinions: "MILLIE IS A HONEY AND DAMN SEXXIE." "You're really pretty, Millie. Ever thought about being a model?" "Has anyone ever told u u kinda look like leelee sobieski?" Apparently someone has. 

Most of Millie's gallery photos are tame by anyone's standards. Unless you happen to stumble upon the shots in the folder labeled "Sexy." You don't have to be a prude to notice that the images of Millie with her pants hiked dangerously low, or the close-up of her thinly clothed torso, are pretty dicey for a minor. 

Why would a young girl with so much going for her want to show off her body to the Net's swarming hordes? Because Millie is what's known on the Net as a cam girl. That is, she's a young girl who, with the aid of a Web cam, a computer, and a high-speed connection, beams her (often scantily clad) image out to people (okay, men) around the Net. You can't exactly call it soft porn, but you can't exactly call it something else, either. On the one hand, she doesn't collect money from her "friends." On the other, the best way to become her friend is to buy her something she wants.