US$200 for every tape published - plus one month's access to Beautiful Agony

So you'd like to share your Agony with the world? Come and join the band of radicals who make Beautiful Agony the sexiest place in the known universe.

Our standards are high, which means, straight up, no web cams or still cameras in video mode. You'll need to record your agony using a digital camcorder and post us the footage as it came from your camcorder (eg. Mini DV tape, Mini DVD, or you can copy the footage to your computer and burn us a disc as a CD or DVD data file with your recordings, unedited and at full resolution). Please include the details of your camcorder if possible, make, model and the format it has been recorded in. We want the RAW footage please.

Please submit two takes. Make them different. Do it alone, do it with friends or do it with your lover - we don't mind, and we don't need to know.

You can do a straight agony, or, if you like, depart from the common format you see on the site (these are often the most interesting clips). Or do both.

Frame the shot like you see on the site - full face, no nudity, preferably from a point of view above the nose. An easy way to achieve this is to set up a tripod and lie underneath. Depending on your equipment and where you put the tripod, this might give you an upside-down shot. That's fine, we can flip it in editing.

Make sure you have good light. Daylight from a nearby window is best. If you're using a lamp, it should be to one side, close to you but not too close to the camera, so the light is graded across your face. It will need to be a bright lamp and set the white balance manually to "indoor" (all camcorders have this control).

Please don't have any music or the TV playing as it creates a copyright problem. Besides, Agony is an experience for the ears as well as the eyes, so try and keep the background noise down.

Capture the warm up, and the cool down. Let us see all of your idiosyncrasies and rituals, but we're only interested in reality, not performances, impressions, or exaggerations.

Let the tape run on at the end. You can talk to the camera before, during or after, if you like. Take as long as you need, we'll edit the tape.

After you've done your Agony, we need your Confessions. If you haven't been able to view this part of the site, it's just how it sounds - you spill all your sexy secrets on camera. You can get a friend to put you through the juicer or just go it alone; we'd like to see all of you for this part, but please keep your clothes on! You can download a guide to suggested Confessions topics » here, but don't feel constrained by these questions. Just give us all your dirty laundry, and when that's done, give us somebody else's. 15 minutes or more is good.  Keep the context of the question in your answer as the viewer doesn't hear the questions.

Every Agony contributor is paid a fee before their video goes up, providing their contribution is accepted. To be accepted you just have to make sure the Release Form is correctly filled out, you include a legible copy of government issued photo ID that shows you're over 18, and the technical standards are met.

You can download the Release form » here.

When your Agony is ready, post it with the Release and your I.D. to the address below. If it's everything we've asked for here, it will accepted and we'll pay you the $US200 publication fee.  Please check the Release carefully, make sure there are no crossouts or alterations.  Your Agony will not be published until we've paid you.  When you see your Agony come up on the site, please email us and tell us through the Contact page, tell us who you are, and we'll send back a month's free password for access to the entire site.

Don't forget to include your Paypal address for payment. Or if you're located in Australia we can post a cheque or do a direct bank transfer.

Send tape or disc, the release form and a note containing your name, address, email and phone number, to:

Feck Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 2934
Fitzroy Victoria 3065
Australia

(Your submission will not be used until it is accepted, paid for, and you have submitted a Release).