Camming: Money, Power and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
Thursday 20 January 2022
Dr. Angela Jones discusses how exploitation and discrimination affect models in the new global sex industry of erotic webcamming.
Through the erotic webcam industry — “camming” — millions of people from all over the globe have found decent wages, friendship, intimacy, community, empowerment, and pleasure. Cam models, like all sex workers, must grapple with exploitation, discrimination, harassment and stigmatization. Using an intersectional lens, Dr. Angela Jones discusses how the overlapping systems of neoliberal capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, cissexism, heterosexism and ableism shape all cam models’ experiences in this new global sex industry. In their book, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry, Dr. Jones pioneers an entirely new subfield in sociology—the sociology of pleasure.
A group of three multi-ethnic children from a blended family standing together outdoors in their yard, posing and smiling for the camera. The caucasian boy on the left is 11 years old. His stepsister and stepbrother are 13 year old twins, mixed race African-American and Caucasian.