If ever there was a sign of the mainstreaming of pornography, this is it: British publishing house Routledge is producing an academic journal about smut.
No, this is not the plot of another hot-for-teacher flick — although here’s hoping this journal begets its own porn parody. (I can picture it now: An orgiastic “peer-review process” and dialogue along the lines of, “I’ll show you some intersextionality.) According to a recent call for papers, Porn Studies is “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts,” with an emphasis on “sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability.”
The journal’s editors, Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, are looking for papers that examine “specifically sexual and explicit media forms, their connections to wider media landscapes and their links to the broader spheres of (sex) work across historical periods and national contexts.” The journal won’t be published until spring of 2014 — because peer review takes time, ya’ll — but select articles will be published online as they’re ready. From the first issue, you can expect discussions of everything from obscenity trials to Australian manga to “how we think of fantasy in relation to porn,” Smith told me by phone.
“Porn, of course, is very marginalized as a media form and yet at the center of lots of scares currently around young people and their access,” she says, as well as “the objectification of women.” The journal aims to bring some empiricism, as well as a global perspective, to the discussion. “The Anglo American debate is framed within the feminist and objectification rubric,” she says. “In Europe, that just isn’t the case.” Papers will look at the content and “textual formations” of porn, surrounding legal regulations and other “questions that remain rather hidden and haven’t had the kind of rigorous debate that we might like to see,” and which “we’ve seen about nearly every other media form,” she says. That isn’t to say that the journal won’t address worries about porn’s impact, but “it will have to proceed beyond the scaremongering.” They’re interested in evidence, not anecdotes.
Still, she hopes the journal will find a broad audience outside of academia. If any subject could do it, this one would be it.
Bablu posted:the last time i actually enjoyed pornography was when i was thirteen, maybe younger
thats fucked up. have you called the police?
Goethestein posted:how many people itt can honestly say that they have never watched and enjoyed pornography.
ive never "enjoyed" anything
*raises paw*
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mongosteen posted:porno is pretty marginalized as far as media forms with that viewership size. more people in america watch porn in a given week than go to the movies but which gets on entertainment tonight
Teen Mom sex tapers, pro-prostitution former call girl Feminist authors, and incestuous Mormon singing siblings, by my last watch
discipline posted:"I got the shit kicked out of me," she said. "I was told before the video -- and they said this very proudly, mind you -- that in this line most of the girls start crying because they're hurting so bad... I couldn't breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset, and they didn't stop. They kept filming. You can hear me say, 'Turn the fucking camera off', and they kept going."
Martin Amis reports from the high-risk, increasingly violent world of the pornography industry
Lysenko posted:I just watched hardcore
Goethestein posted:how many people itt can honestly say that they have never watched and enjoyed pornography.
*small pebbles begin to shift and move about over the grave marked "CYCLONEBOY", the ground begins to shudder and shake and the soil parts as a solitary raised hand shoots up thru the earth*
Ironicwarcriminal posted:Vice, verso books, the taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and that anti-Semitic elmo are the only good things to ever come out of new york
actually Vice is one of the good things to come out of Montreal, it steadily started sucking balls the moment it landed in Jew Dork Shitty
Ironicwarcriminal posted:Vice, verso books, the taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and that anti-Semitic elmo are the only good things to ever come out of new york
neither vice nor verso come from new york lol
Ironicwarcriminal posted:Vice, verso books, the taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and that anti-Semitic elmo are the only good things to ever come out of new york
If you are going to reference Pelham 123 at least recognize the cultural contribution's of The Warriors (Also Amazon has the version without the shitty comic book transitions for download)
Superabound posted:i remember being in college and me all my friends thinking that VICE Dos & Donts book was the funniest thing in the world and then a couple of years ago while helping my sister move i found it and read it again and suddenly it was just page after page of Gavin McInnes frantically masturbating over young asian girls in leggings
ive only really watched vice, i haven't read much by them at all, i know people post articles of theirs on facebook and i promptly scroll past them because the one time I attempted to read one my eyes glazed over by the shitty, and I mean shitty writing style that was almost aimed to be as offensively atrocious as possible.
But their youtube documentaries recently and their ViceTV series on HBO seem to be put together a lot better and the presenters are not abhorrent. Vice is an example of why branding is a double edged sword. They can have a product of merit but it gets tarnished by other garbage that's under the same label.
Other examples:
HBO: The Wire/Girls
McDonalds: McRib/Fish Mcbites
Christianity: Forgiveness/Bigotry
Capitalism: Progress/Exploitation
Communism: invalid entry, no negatives detected
