INDISCRETE WINDOW: A STUDY ON VIRTUAL SEX, DESIRE AND CONSUMPTION IN THE CÂMERA PRIVÊ SITE
Virtual sex; Midiatization; Consumption; Interaction; Câmera Privê; Social practices
The present work seeks to discuss the implications of the process of virtualization of sexual relations in contemporary society from the site Câmera Privê, worldwide used for virtual sexual practices through the use of webcams. Considering the virtualization of social interaction as a consequence of mediatization, the body in today's society finds in the technological advance, which reaches levels of deep social and economic changes, new possibilities of sexual experiences between the subjects, motivated among other things by desires and/or financial interests. In order to carry out this study, we started with an exploratory research on the windows of webcam transmissions of male, female and transsexual models on the Câmera Privê relationship site, throughout 2016 and part of 2017, where we sought to observe the routine of the models, the strategies of negotiating these with clients during sexual performances in the online. These performances are elaborated in a composition of image and text, integrated to the erotic repertoire of its interlocutors and constructed in the individual relation of the inter-action of speeches, gestures and visual stimuli, possible only in the current social context with mediatization. In Câmera Privê, we perceive how the body is linked to consumption from the virtualization of desire and sexual relations through commercial transactions among its users, in a world dominated by the market of symbolic goods. While on the one hand the sensation of freedom of intellectual and audiovisual production, virtualization of our sensorial capacities, information sharing and social articulation in contemporary cyberspace have encouraged libertarian discourses, the entertainment industry, in turn, instrumentalizes us in the form of a network And launches sexuality into a future of uncertainties.