Performing Amateurism: A Study of Camgirls' Work

Pierre Brasseur () and Jean Finez

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Abstract: This chapter draws on an interview-based field survey to analyze camgirls’ professional engagement drivers and professional learning curves. We show that women start sexcamming for economic reasons and that those who work longer term in sexcamming have specific skills they can sell in the business. Camgirls invest their time, bodies, and feelings in the hope of making a living from sexcamming. As hardened professionals, they learn to give the impression of being “true amateurs,” presenting their shows as a sideline and forging intimate relationships with their viewers. The sexcamming economy is hence based on a commodification of the so-called everyday life, as its clients imagine it to be.

Keywords: sexwork; sexuality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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