Sobre Chat Roulette

Escrito por María Llopis en 31/05/2010. Publicado en Cibersexo, Porn and Postporn.

Andrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow, has a variety of explanations for why he created the Web site Chatroulette.com. According to one story, he got bored talking to people he already knew on Skype; according to another, it was a fund-raising ploy for a bike trip from Moscow to Amsterdam. The most reliable version, however, centers on a shop called Russian Souvenirs. It is an upscale outfit owned by Ternovskiy’s uncle Sasha, who hired his nephew to work there as a salesman during the summer of 2008, five days a week, eleven hours a day. Ternovskiy was supposed to show foreign tourists around the shop, pulling various nesting dolls, lacquered boxes, and kitschy Soviet paraphernalia from the bright vitrines. The job was easy but exhilarating.

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María Llopis

El trabajo de María Llopis se mueve en diferentes medios y soportes, como la fotografía, el vídeo y el live art performance. Desarrolla una visión alternativa propia de la identidad sexual y de género siempre partiendo de un fuerte posicionamiento político feminista. Llopis está en la actualidad escribiendo un libro titulado Maternidades Subversivas y que tratará los temas de parto orgásmico, pornografía feminista y maternidad, maternidad transexual y trangénero, y partenogénesis, entre otros.