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Everyone is focusing on the fact that there are more sexualized women streamers than men - that's an obvious conclusion though because men are far more motivate
by COGlory 3y ago
Everyone is focusing on the fact that there are more sexualized women streamers than men - that's an obvious conclusion though because men are far more motivated by sexualized women than vice versa.
The interesting thing to me in this article is the amount of women streaming that are sexualized:
>However, the majority of women (71.4%) wear attire ranging from moderate necklines to bikinis or minimal clothing and use the focus of the image to show their full body (76.2%). In addition, more than half of these streamers evoke a sexual act (51.6%), while two thirds of them insinuate such acts or seduce with their mouth (32.7% + 34.7%).
So 65%-75% of female streamers on Twitch are overtly sexualized. Overall, I think this is a complete race to the bottom. I understand the incentives that govern it (it's a male dominated audience, therefore sex gets attention, more sex gets more attention, and now we have an arms race) but this seems really unhealthy and disappointing for people on both sides of the thing.
Twitch is a disaster and needs to do something to reclaim its identity if it doesn't just want to turn into yet another porn site. I don't have a problem with porn but I do have a problem with the ubiquity of it. I don't think it's healthy to have it in every single social setting because it sucks all the air and value out of everything else around it. Keep porn on porn sites, and let people differentiate themselves in other, more creative ways, elsewhere. Porn is generally the least interesting thing a female creator can do in the attention economy and it just reinforces existing gender stratification.
Also, I have no idea why this submission was flagged, it's a reputable source and of real interest to this audience.
- infecto 3y agoSadly I think that ship has long sailed into the sunset. When I used to follow twitch years back I always thought it was amazing that it felt very easy to get temporarily banned on the gaming streams but there was a whole universe of softcore streamers. I don't have any qualms with it but I always thought it diluted the brand by also having softcore within the same company.
- me_me_me 3y agosoftcore by day on twitch Porn is very lucrative business, the crafty ones use it as an opportunity to advertise their other streams. The other female streamers are pressured to compete for limited audience. So unless Twitch goes after it its a race to the bottom.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoWell you should be happy since the internet has made a concerted effort to eradicate porn/erotica from increasingly large swaths of the internet in the last 10 years. I'm not even talking about Pornhub deleting most of their catalog. I'm talking about shit like Tumblr banning all porn for no good reason. Tumblr is a shell of its former self. Gen Z and the Fujoshi crowd will never be the same.
- geraldhh 3y ago> Porn is generally the least interesting thing a female creator can do in the attention economy and it just reinforces existing gender stratification. i believe i kinda get you intention, but this sounds just wrong given that data. > Also, I have no idea why this submission was flagged, it's a reputable source and of real interest to this audience. both true, tho the research is more of an analysis that confirms popular sentiment and works with a lot of preconceptions instead of investigating alternatives or history.
- bequanna 3y ago> Porn is generally the least interesting thing a female creator can do in the attention economy and it just reinforces existing gender stratification. This thinking is just divorced from reality. Generally, women are able to use their sexuality to their advantage more so than men. This is not new. The research here is not novel. We’re discussing something that 99% of the world intuitively knows and is basic human behavior.