“WebCam Girls”: The Movie

They might seem a little quaint in the age of YouTube et al., but there was a time not too long ago when webcams were (and for many people, still are) the last word in sexy interactivity—and as we all know, any media featuring girls who appear nude even for only for a few moments every day gets tagged with the "porn" label. Documentary filmmaker Aerlyn Weissman examines the relationship between "real life" and smut in her new film "WebCam Girls", which features interviews (and plenty of screenshots) with such superstars of the genre as art/life cammer Ana Voog, sex educator and fetish model Ducky Doolittle, cultural critic-turned-camgirl Terri Senft, and cam studio pioneer Dionne Loewen. You can download the full movie for a small fee, or just check out the trailer and then head over to YouTube for more than seventeen minutes of Ducky talking about her career as interweb crush object. Almost makes us want to fire up our old copy of IRC and see if we can talk some cutie into flashing us her boobies for a moment or two. Those were the days ...

· "WebCam Girls" Trailer (.wmv video @ cineclix.com)

· Ducky Doolittle on YouTube ("WebCam Girls" excerpt @ youtube.com)

· Ducky Doolittle (duckydoolittle.com)

· See also: Terri Senft's "Camgirls: Webcams, Livejournals And The Personal As Political In The Age Of The Global Brand" (Amazon)