Chaturbate is an adult website providing live webcam performances by individual webcam models and couples, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity ranging from striptease and dirty talk to masturbation with sex toys that is often highly explicit. The site is divided into five categories: female cams, male cams, couple cams, transgender cams and spy shows.

"Chaturbate" is a portmanteau of "chat" and "masturbate". Viewers are allowed to watch for free (with the exception of Private Shows), but pay money in the form of "tips" in order to see certain sex acts performed.^[3] The site itself earns revenues by taking roughly 40% of what performers make.^[4] In addition Chaturbate generates revenue from the audience when they purchase tokens using their credit cards.^[5]

As of December 2017, the site is ranked 114th in the Alexa global rank and is the largest adult camming site competing with European BongaCams and LiveJasmin.^[1] It is estimated that the site has about 4.1 million unique visitors each month.^[6] Cam performers can earn money by being tipped with tokens and 20 tokens are worth $1.^{[7][8][9][10]} Each Chaturbate token is worth $0.05 and a model needs to earn at least $50.00 to receive the payment.^[11][12]