It’s a good comparison…web-cams now as Polaroids were in the 70’s.
But as computer users catch up with the sex-industry in the use of web-cams, the dangers grow also.

For men who live at home with their parents, as so many do these days (according to Statistics Canada, 33 per cent of unmarried men between the ages of 30 and 34 still lived at home in 2001), the web cam is a perfect way to hook up intimately when you are unable to meet a woman in person. One woman recalls watching a young man with spiked hair undressing for her on a web cam when his father walked in the room. “His dad had no idea what he was doing,” the woman says. “He really wasn’t even aware that the web cam was there. His son acted like he was simply getting undressed and carried on a conversation with his father while I watched in horror.”

Web cams also allow those who are attached a way to cheat without having to leave home. Ryan, 41, a married sales executive with two children, has owned a web cam for two years. He recalls his first encounter: “I was chatting online with a woman when she offered to do a striptease for me, which she did. Then she wanted to see me and for me to pleasure myself, which I did.”

Nothing really changes does it?
Some guy ‘cams’ and hopes his wife and kids don’t walk in. Some guy thinks this is a safe way to get a really good look at a person.
Someone else thinks ‘camming’ is about intimacy.
We’re so saturated with technological freedom, we’ll do anything for a cheap thrill.
This article is about consentual flashing, peeping tom behaviour and voyeurism. If it’s so mainstream and acceptable, I wonder why the participants in the article didn’t use their real names?

Cheryl, a single Toronto woman who owns a web cam, says she is tired of men exposing themselves. “I’m starting to feel that men would rather just have me watch them play with themselves than ever meet a woman in person,” she moans. “And quite honestly, after you’ve seen one, they all look the same. They also keep asking me to take off my clothes, and I really don’t feel comfortable doing that.”

We can rationalize any self-gratifying behaviour.

Is the new world of intimate web-camming a good or bad thing? Ottawa sex therapist Sue McGarvie has concerns about the trend. “It’s very addictive,” she says. “You’re able to get safe, inconsequential sex without much effort, which is really appealing to men. They never develop skills to meet a woman in person, nor do they have to work on a relationship. They don’t have to do anything. I have patients now who get an erection when they see their computer.”