HOW MY FRIEND MAKES HUNDREDS OF POUNDS FROM BAKED BEANS

My friend, let’s call him Zac, has always had a thing for food and photography. So he has combined the two favourite hobbies into one very lucrative side gig.

Zac is into Splosh or Wet and Messy. For those who don’t know, it is a fetish where people are roused by being covered by wet and messy substances on their skin. Or people become aroused by observing a person covered in slime, mud or food. Often the models, who are mainly female, will be clothed either fully or partially. The main foods tend to be anything with a runny texture, from milk, whipped cream, treacle, to custard and baked beans. Sometimes they mock play in a paddling pool or a bathtub of food while another model pours or throws the wet and messy food over them. Some videos may include sex and nudity, although Zac’s do not. However, it is standard for the models may be fully clothed. That is roughly what the fetish is to a layperson such as myself, and how he explained it to me.

Coming from a working-class family where money and food were not always available, it seems like a terrible waste of good food. However, Zac has repeatedly defended his side gig on Facebook by saying he only buys value-brand food. Personally, it does nothing for me, but there are a lot of people who pay a lot of money to see this.

Zac has a studio at home and a camera. Therefore, his main running costs are the models, costumes and food. The photographs uploaded to his website sit behind a paywall. Customers can make requests like a woman in a white wedding dress covered in baked beans. Beyond that, I have little knowledge of his website. However, what I do now is that approximately his side gig earns him £350 per week. Annually this works out to £18,200 a year. I guess there are worse things he could be doing as a side gig.