ASIAN CAM MODELS: Digital virtual virgin prostitutes ?

This new book is the first to explore Filipina Cam Models (ie. cyber-sex), in a burgeoning and exploitative industry.

It explores the ACM industry in the Philippines. It pioneers research in economics, labour relations, sexuality, globalization, and digital technology. It specifically identifies the economic piecework relations of a new global industry; the commoditization of sexuality & (emotional) labour by cyber-technology.

Here I document the labour relations of ACMs & the impact of digital technology & globalization. While ACM-ing provides new employment opportunities for young, unskilled Filipinas, economic, cultural & digital factors have also enabled exploitation through piecework, & thus further entrenched the economic & "digital divide".

This initial study raises more questions than it answers. Nevertheless, it directs us to a contemporary form of economic exploitation of vulnerable populations using an old form of labour relations prevalent in the 18thC. The new ACM "cottage industry" of the 21stC uses digital technology to connect the local & global economies (glocalization), effecting changes in sexual cultures & the meaning of commoditization. It questions and expands (neo)-Marxist analyses of labour, highlighting the commoditization of labour, emotions, Filipinas, and sexuality.

The irony is that cutting edge technology of the 21st century, so essential for and indeed a product of modern capitalism, creates and facilitates a system of work and exploitation that is pre-industrial.