camsite
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- A website for webcam livestreaming, often for adult entertainment.
- 2001, Media International Australia, pages 86–87:
- […] controlling the technology themselves, but to the variety of (potential) ways in which Internet users in general are able to access and interact with camsite constructions. […] Other camsite hosts blur the lines between the domestic and the pornographic by including Webcams in their bedroom and bathroom, or by exposing more than their thoughts online.
- 2005, Trixie Fontaine, “Menstruation: Porn’s last taboo”, in $pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, published 2015, →ISBN, page 69:
- I envisioned logging into the camsite every morning to empty my bladder and line my pockets. […] A week later I found out it wasn’t so simple; yellow shows were (and still are) against most camsites’ rules and many camgirls’ accounts had been closed for disobeying by spraying.
- 2020, Bonni Rambatan, Jacob Johanssen, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism, Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, published 2021, →ISBN:
- In the film, as in real camsites, users are shown paying money which is exchanged for tokens. The more tokens a camgirl receives, the higher up the camsite’s public ranking she is listed.