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camsite en · NOUN

Etymology

From cam + site.

Meanings

1. A website for webcam livestreaming, often for adult entertainment.
   • In the film, as in real camsites, users are shown paying money which is exchanged for tokens. The more tokens a camgirl receives, the higher up the camsite’s public ranking she is listed. 2020, Bonni Rambatan, Jacob Johanssen, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism, Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, published 2021, →ISBN:
   • […] controlling the technology themselves, but to the variety of (potential) ways in which Internet users in general are able to access and interact with camsite constructions. […] Other camsite hosts blur the lines between the domestic and the pornographic by including Webcams in their bedroom and bathroom, or by exposing more than their thoughts online. 2001, Media International Australia, pages 86–87:
   • I envisioned logging into the camsite every morning to empty my bladder and line my pockets. […] A week later I found out it wasn’t so simple; yellow shows were (and still are) against most camsites’ rules and many camgirls’ accounts had been closed for disobeying by spraying. 2005, Trixie Fontaine, “Menstruation: Porn’s last taboo”, in $pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, published 2015, →ISBN, page 69:

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