Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY. She is the author Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement.
Angela Jones’s Camming offers a roller-coaster ride through the
often and, according to mainstream norms, necessarily hidden world
of online erotic performances and relationships, camera-guided sex
work, and the joys and downsides of its many professional
possibilities ... Jones’s book provides a lens through which we can
witness what happens on both sides of cameras in the (online) sex
industries as well as contemplate our taken-for-granted norms and
biases about sexualities, as triggers of both consumption and
discrimination or exclusion (e.g., via criminalization).
*American Journal of Sociology*
Camming signifies a brilliant sociological analysis of race,
ethnicity, class, nationality, gender, and sexuality while
providing a detailed portrait of how cam models earn money and gain
power and pleasure in the adult webcam industry.
*Teaching Sociology*
Sex work and desire are complicated issues for a technologically
mediated society. In Camming, Jones documents how pleasure is
refracted through social structures that reproduce inequality, but
also how pleasure and sex work may 'crack' capitalism by resisting
alienation and other forms of inequality.
*Men and Masculinities*
A thorough examination of the online sex-work industry and a
theoretical treatise about pleasure, a topic long neglected in
sociology [...] As quarantines resulting from the recent
coronavirus pandemic have temporarily shut down most physical
sex-work venues, Jones’s analysis of online sex work is an even
more timely contribution to the field.
*Choice*
Camming is an important study that offers an innovative paradigm
for examining not only sex work but other intimate industries.
*Social Forces*
Finally, a smart and profoundly feminist analysis of the webcamming
industry. Readers get an inside look at what is worth celebrating
about the emergence of erotic camming—namely that it is a
relatively safe, often pleasurable, and accessible source of income
during a time of tremendous global economic disparity. Angela Jones
also shows us the ways that camming remains subject to broader
social, political, and economic forces, such as racial hierarchies
of desirability and transphobia/fetishization. This is a
fascinating and deeply ethical and de-stigmatizing account of an
understudied form of sex work. Sociology has never been this
sexy!
*Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men*
A groundbreaking book by the leading expert on the erotic webcam
industry. Jones illuminates key structural features of the business
as well as the lived experiences of the performers. She shows that
commercial webcamming is not only profitable but also safe and
quite pleasurable for most of those engaged in this kind of sex
work.
*Ronald Weitzer, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit
Vice to Lawful Business*
This book lies at the intersection of feminist legal and
psychology. It provides a serious and honest appraisal of the sex
work industry as it manifests in camming, which is the live
videocam performance of sex to a remote paid audience. The analysis
here challenges contemporary regulatory ideas that sex work should
be criminalized and that the law, at least in the way it is
currently focused, should regulate this emerging industry.
*Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books*
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