Camming is amateur porn movie-making and it's the most recent addition to the porn industry. All you need to make it is: internet access, a web cam and, of course, a willingness to perform - anything from various sexual acts to simple conversations with strangers, who'll pay you. Camming sites' like the free Tube sites are presenting a real threat to the professional porn video makers, who are estimated to be worth around $5 billion a year. Unlike more traditional sex workers, cammers work for themselves. The majority perform in the comfort of their own homes. They're independent operators, who negotiate their own terms and can easily ban any unwanted attention. Also, aside from the exchange of credit card numbers, their clients are anonymous. One cammer girl said: “Camming is starting to get really popular because girls realize they can make quite a bit of money on their own. I know lots of people who are doing it to help them get through university and help pay the bills.” This newest phenomena is a further sanitizing of deviance. Women, and even married couples, consider themselves separated from the sleaze of the porn industry, because they are in their own house, not under the hot-lights, or laying down with strangers, but, in reality, they are still selling their bodies - and their souls. It also creates further disconnect for the viewer, who believes that they are interacting with a “real” person. A cammer girl said: “Sometimes they'll log on and just say that they want to talk. Sometimes we talk about their sexual fantasies, it's like they need reassurance and they haven't told anyone before…” In the men who participate, this false form of interaction will cause a dangerous psychological fracturing. Like the porn addict, they increasingly associate sexuality, and now communication, with the sterile world of technology; when it should remain in the physical realm of human relations. We are creating generations of men who do not know how, or even have the desire, to be with a live woman.
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