Cam sites are porn's hot new thing, but they're more conservative than you think
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Aug 14 2020 at 7:46 PM GMT
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- August 8 is International Female Orgasm Day, and we're celebrating with an entire week dedicated to exploring the business and pleasure of porn.
- At its best, porn is a tool for helping people explore and enjoy their sexual fantasies.
- But, as the sociologist Rachel Stuart once pointed out to me, traditional porn usually only offers “a rough approximation of what you want,” because producers and performers created it to appeal to a general audience, not your specific desires. Cam sites, however, can allow viewers to interact with adult performers in real time — and ideally to pay exactly the person they want to see to perform exactly their fantasies.
- That, Stuart and others have argued, is a big part of why they have grown so popular over the last decade.
- In fact, camming offers such individualized and diverse erotic potential that it’s easy to think of it as a definitively superior product, slowly eclipsing the appeal and profitability of old school porn. More about Porn, Porn Industry, Onlyfans, Porn Week, and Culture.
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- Published Aug 14, 2020 7:46 PM GMT