Pornografia amadora em tempo real: observações preliminares sobre o Cam4

Abstract

Part of a research project in the embryonic stages, this work intends to observe certain regularities of interaction that occur on the amateur pornographic website Cam4. I present the particularities of this on-line platform, relating it, amongst other more or less secondary questions, to the web 2.0 guidlines and the complex production of the so called “reality effect”. Next, I discuss the construction of heterosexual masculinities from the perspective of the performers, that exhibit themselves in a context marked by the the constant identificatory interpolation of spectators, who, in their overwhelming majority, are men who desire other men. As such, I observe the phenomenon of the spectacularization of cumming on Cam4 and trace, in the development of the research, some points for future investigations that conceive it as corpus.