Webcam girls e sessualità on line. Le nuove frontiere del sesso a pagamento

By analysing some websites openly devoted to sexual encounters, the paper takes into consideration the email conversations with women, the so-called webcam girls, who prostitute themselves on line. More specifically, the paper analyses the following dimensions: how these women approach the potential clients, the language they are using, where they come from, that is they are Italian or foreigner, the representation that they give of themselves before the clients, and if they consider themselves as sex workers or not, even if there is not any physical contacts between them and the clients. The dimensions listed above could represent, along the wider social relationships change due to innovation technology, not only a new form of sex market but also a change in the conception of sexuality. A current change that only some decades ago was considered simply unthinkable.