Book Review: Jones, Angela. "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" (New York: New York University Press, 2020.)

Abstract

Camming is a form of online sex work in which models perform for and interact with remote clients via internet-connected webcams. As Angela Jones' book-the first dedicated to this topic-outlines, camming's roots began in 1980s and 1990s phone sex. With early webcam pioneers like the well-known JenniCam site, camming as an industry began in 1996. Today, the camming market is a multibillion-dollar industry. 2 A sociological mixed-methods study, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry outlines the various ways in which contemporary cam performers negotiate the world of camming with particular attention to not only the contemporary neoliberal, global capitalist, white supremacist system within which camming is situated, but also the ways in which performers experience a range of pleasures through their work.Along with other methods such as discourse analysis, autoethnography, surveys, and participant observation, Jones' study comprises a series of interviews with cam performers of