Sexcam workers in Colombia: A diagnostic impression about security and health

Abstract

Objective. Formulate a preliminary diagnostic type impression about the safety and health problems of sexcam workers in Colombia.

Method. Only a few decades after the birth of the growing websex business, it is denoted the almost inexistence of information, data, and statistics at official and academic level, having to resort to the most reliable sources of primary order, as well as the independent journalists who rigorously dealt with the issue.

Results. The relative recent appearance and current push of the websex industry pose a huge crossroads not only in the ethical, legal, and economic fields in Colombia, but it also makes evident the marked indifference with which the safety and health of women who work in this medium ('sexcam') has been focused

Conclusions. A preliminary balance indicates that the forces that move and that emerge from this virtual sexual business are contrary and disproportionate in relation to the human beings involved, since there are more and more of those immersed in the workplace, while their safety and health conditions are almost ignored and forgotten, showing a worrying lack of knowledge about this problem both in Colombia, as in Latin America, and in different countries of the world.