Class Eight - The naked self: Being a Body in Televideo Cybersex: Difference between revisions

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Abstract

Unlike text-based cybersex, televideo is an embodied experience. Participants present their bodies as an object to be looked at. Through in-depth interviews this study examines the relationships among selfhood and the body and the context in which both are located. The body, much like the self, exists as both a viewed object and an experienced subject. Televideo cybersex participants manipulate this relationship by presenting themselves as only a body, the experience of which acts back in an erotic "looking glass" affecting how the self conceives of the body. While in some cases the medium serves to create a "disembodied" context for interaction, as this study illustrates, it may also serve to fully embody. The obvious relationships among self, body, and social situation made evident in any form of sexual experience are largely unexplored in sociology, yet fully within the realm of interest and theoretical models of symbolic interaction.

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Dating back from 2002 you could say this study is quite old. It examines the relation between the body and the self in webcam sex participants. The text focusses only on people voluntary engaged in these sex-acts, and where there was no money involved. I felt while reading the text that is focuses much on chat roulette like webcam sites. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any sources of on which website the researcher found their interviewee’s.

The study examines the relationships among selfhood and the body and the context in which both are located. The body, much like the self exists as both a viewed object and an experienced subject.

By viewing the body as an object through a digital lens, (sometimes even disconnecting the body completely from the self by not showing the face), the body can be seen as something different, something disembodied almost. This gives people participating in webcam-sex the opportunity to almost from a distance view their body and see their body being viewed and desired without the self intervening in this objectification.

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+Dating back from 2002 you could say this study is quite old. It examines the relation between the body and the self in webcam sex participants. The text focusses only on people voluntary engaged in these sex-acts, and where there was no money involved. I felt while reading the text that is focuses much on chat roulette like webcam sites.
+Unfortunately I couldn’t find any sources of on which website the researcher found their interviewee’s.
+The study examines the relationships among selfhood and the body and the context in which both are located. The body, much like the self exists as both a viewed object and an experienced subject.
+By viewing the body as an object through a digital lens, (sometimes even disconnecting the body completely from the self by not showing the face), the body can be seen as something different, something disembodied almost. This gives people participating in webcam-sex the opportunity to almost from a distance view their body and see their body being viewed and desired without the self intervening in this objectification.