Runesy Chaturbate
Some may look at Max and Harper or anyone on live webcam and think they understand exactly what sex means: loving; monogamous; dignified by its secrecy; more authentic for not being shared; sacred because it doesn’t involve an intermediary such as an app on our phones screen. Yet after spending any amount of time on Chaturbate this view begins to feel both restricted and mundane.
Chaturbate, both an online platform for independent performers and an anarchic echo chamber of sexual anarchy, paints a vivid portrait of a world in which jobs don’t pay enough to support ambition and misfortune can lead to financial collapse. It tells a tale about an economy which devalues education, deflates wages and makes saving for the unexpected impractical.
Chaturbate’s algorithm for placing streamers has made the site into an unwitting popularity contest, in which how many viewers a girl can attract to her room is more important than customer satisfaction feedback, connection quality or whether she uses lube or displays her socks publicly. Total sexual anarchy is prevented by an active community police force of users acting like Wikipedia moderators by reporting and shutting down performers who look underage or violate one of Chaturbate’s few rules, such as appearing drunk or having animals or excrement present in their rooms.