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The Mirror and the Market: Intimacy at the Edge of Automation

The cam-streaming economy is not a peripheral adult subculture. It is a mature cybernetic marketplace where intimacy, affirmation, and erotic presence are priced, tokenised, and algorithmically regulated. Such platforms function as marketplaces for behaviours—attention, reciprocation, fantasy—rather than static objects. Thousands of performers broadcast continuously, producing a gradient of interaction from casual chat to explicit performance, […]