“500 Tokens to Go Private”: Camgirls, Cybersex and Feminist Entrepreneurship

Bleakley, Paul

doi:10.1007/s12119-014-9228-3

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“…As noted in prior research on the camgirl phenomenon (e.g. Bleakley, 2014), performing as a camgirl may be seen as an empowering form of sex work, as the performer retains considerable control over the situation; evoking amateurishness goes some way towards “correcting” this power relationship back towards the consumer, as it gives the impression that the performer does not fully understand the implications of what she is doing. This amateurish quality also indexes youth and innocence in the performer, and distracts from the reality that she is an experienced sex worker, in some cases working for a professional livestreaming studio that produces such content on a large scale, a fact that consumers may find unappealing.…”

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confidence: 97%

Sexuality vs. sensuality: The multimodal construction of affective stance in Chinese ASMR performances*

Starr

Wang

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Online communities have recently developed a novel genre of performance aimed at triggering Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), a tingling sensation prompted by soft voices and other stimuli. In China, these performances were banned in 2018 due to a rise in sexually charged videos purporting to be ASMR. Through acoustic and content analysis, this study argues that, rather than ASMR being a vehicle for sexual content, conventional and sexual Chinese ASMR performances constitute two separate genres. While all performers index intimate affective stances, conventional ASMR performers construct the persona of a calm, gentle professional, while sexual performers evoke the childish, amateur camgirl and sajiao (“whining”) persona. These performances illustrate Chinese content creators’ juxtaposition of local and non‐local semiotic resources as they participate in transnational online communities. The phenomenon of ASMR also highlights the sensual nature of the voice and underscores the necessity of incorporating sensuality into theorizations of sociolinguistic meaning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Sexuality vs. sensuality: The multimodal construction of affective stance in Chinese ASMR performances*

Starr

Wang

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Thus, those wishing to conceal their activity as an independent escort may not wish to engage in (for example) the ‗camgirl' industry. As described by Bleakley (2014), this is an interactive form of online sex work, in which sexual performances are offered to clients via the internet, and those watching can interact and sometimes direct the activity of the performer. Distinguishing between those who enter sex work as an IFE, and those who have previously engaged in other forms of sex work will be important.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Extant literature positions some forms of sex work such as prostitution and escorting as entrepreneurial activity (Heyl, 1979;Brewis and Linstead, 2000;Lucas, 2005;Castle and Lee, 2008;Smith and Christou, 2009;Williamson and Bakers, 2009;Bleakley, 2014;Pajnik, 2015, Griffith et al, 2016. However, with some notable exceptions (see for example, Smith and Christou, 2009), these works do not appear within the entrepreneurial literature but instead are featured in journals concerned with sociological enquiry, criminology and policy.…”

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Independent female escorts: Stigmatized, value-adding entrepreneurs

Analoui

Herath²

2018

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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In this article we characterize an independent female escort (IFE) as a sex worker who provides sexual services and companionship in exchange for remuneration, makes use of the Internet for the solicitation of her clients, and solicits those clients and organizes her work in a largely independent manner. We draw on the typology of value-adding and value-extracting entrepreneurship to argue that the activities of IFEs can be considered as entrepreneurial activity that has clear individual and societal benefits. Despite undertaking value-adding entrepreneurial activity, IFEs, as with other sex workers, often face social stigma and concomitant social exclusion. We argue that such stigma is not warranted, and highlight the opportunities for undertaking research into the manner in which perceived and experienced social stigma may affect the entrepreneurial activity of IFEs.

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“…Some sex work places women in vulnerable or exploited positions where sex is exchanged as a means of survival (Wojcicki, 2002a(Wojcicki, , 2002b. Other sex work is conducted privately, autonomously and, in some cases, entrepreneurially with high profit margins (Bleakley, 2014;Cunningham & Kendall, 2011;Holt et al, 2016). Beyond the traditional definitions of sex work, many careers, hobbies, activities and interests that are not commonly considered sex work may also include aspects of Prejudice towards sex workers 4 sex, nudity or intimacy, and involve exchanges that classify as transactional in nature (see Drenten et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Prejudice towards sex workers depends on the sexual activity and autonomy of their work, hobbies and daily activities

Kellie¹,

Brooks²

2020

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Women are more likely than men to be sexualized, objectified, and dehumanized. Female sex workers experience stigma and violence associated with these judgements at far higher rates than other women. Here, we use a pre-registered experimental design to consider which aspects of sex work – the level of sexual activity, earned income, or perceived autonomy of the work – drive dehumanization. A first group of participants (N = 217) rated 80 vignettes of women varying by full-time employment, hobbies and interests on humanness. These ratings were subtracted from the ratings of a second group of participants (N = 774) who rated these same vignettes which additionally described a part-time job, hobby or activity that varied in sexual activity, income earned and autonomy over one’s actions. We find that women and especially men dehumanize women they believe are engaging in penetrative sex. We also find that women’s autonomy of, but not their income from, their sexual activity increases dehumanization. Our findings suggest that opposition to women’s ability to pursue casual sex and generalizations about the exploitative conditions of sex work may drive the harshest negative prejudice towards female sex workers and, by similar mechanisms, women’s sexuality in general.

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“500 Tokens to Go Private”: Camgirls, Cybersex and Feminist Entrepreneurship

Cited by 45 publications

References 14 publications

Sexuality vs. sensuality: The multimodal construction of affective stance in Chinese ASMR performances*

Sexuality vs. sensuality: The multimodal construction of affective stance in Chinese ASMR performances*

Independent female escorts: Stigmatized, value-adding entrepreneurs

Prejudice towards sex workers depends on the sexual activity and autonomy of their work, hobbies and daily activities

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