Erotic Webcam Industry Is Topic of Professor’s New Book
January 17, 2020
Dr. Angela Jones
Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry is the title of a new book by Dr. Angela Jones, associate professor of sociology and coordinator of the “Women, Gender, and Sexuality” minor.
From publisher NYU Press: “The erotic webcam industry, also known as ‘camming,’ is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment—and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure.
“Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet. She provides an inside look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos, to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms.
“A fascinating, much-needed glimpse into the lives of cam models, Camming takes us behind the webcam lens to experience the power of erotic labor in the twenty-first century.”
Dr. Jones says: “The erotic webcam industry is a new genre of indirect sex work, in which cam models sell interactive computer-mediated sex online. The camming industry is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and since the industry emerged in 1996, it has employed over an estimated two million people.
“Colloquially called ‘camming,’ this industry is an exponentially growing sex industry where workers, called cam models, from all over the globe are finding decent wages, greater autonomy, community, and pleasure.”
This is Dr. Jones’s seventh book. She is co-editor of the three-volume After Marriage Equality series (Routledge, 2018). In 2013, she published A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Palgrave). Dr. Jones has also published The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama (Routledge, 2012), and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Praeger, 2011).
Visit Dr. Jones’s website for more information about her books.
