Making Room for a
Post-Authentic Domesticity

by Antonia Hernández

Camming
is a domestic genre.

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Camming, the performance and display of amateur erotic activities live and online, is a domestic genre. More exactly, it is inseparable from the domestic environment from which it arose and in which it unfolds.1 While camming was once a solitary but widespread practice,2 it now finds its privileged milieu on popular sexcam platforms, where individual channels are displayed side by side in a crowded grid. On the sexcam platform, channels are called rooms, a word that does not distinguish between transmissions from personal settings and those from professional studios, between inhabited spaces and places where no one sleeps.