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In our capitalist society, everything has a monetary value, and female beauty is especially commodified in cam rooms. Men get dopamine hits from seeing a pretty girl naked, and then the satisfaction is increased when they spend tokens to see her respond to them personally. Camsites make their profits by exploiting addictive behaviour, just like casinos do with microtransations in video games.
Yet camming looks so effortless to outsiders that many people don’t realise how much work is actually involved. For camgirl Olivia*, it’s more than just logging on and showing off – it’s building an online community, remembering client’s birthdays, and being a de facto therapist. She talks to this week’s LGBTQ&A podcast about the real effort that goes into making camming look easy and why it reshaped her views on consent in sexual relationships.
