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Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. This spatial pairing has transformed the experience of moviegoing, making it impossible to inhabit one space without also passing through the other. The rise of the mall-multiplex signals a broader shift in the spectatorial imagination: away from cinema halls built for the subaltern male viewer, toward environments curated for the aspiring, mobile, and consuming middle-class woman. Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of this infrastructural and cultural transformation as it unfolded across media industries, architectural design, urban planning, and popular cinema. Tracing the multiplex's evolution in post-liberalization India, Tupur Chatterjee reveals how this new built form not only reconfigured cinematic space, but also reshaped the aesthetics, publics, and gendered politics of the contemporary Indian city. Rather than narrating a linear history of technological replacement, the book situates the multiplex within a longer genealogy of postcolonial urban design—one marked by caste- and class-based anxieties around visibility, safety, and leisure. It argues that the architectural mediation of cinema is central to how desire, modernity, and risk are organised in India's media cities. Drawing on industrial and organisational ethnography, in-depth interviews, participant observation, discourse and textual analysis, and archival research, Projecting Desire maps the multiplex as a space where film, infrastructure, and aspiration intersect. In doing so, it offers a critical framework for understanding how gendered publics are produced through the infrastructures of cinematic experience in the Global South. Dr Tupur Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her research spans global media industries, feminist media studies, urban spatial politics, and the material life of media technologies. Her work has been published in journals like Television and New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Porn Studies among others.  Dr Priyam Sinha is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and is based at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her PhD from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical media industry studies, disability studies, gender studies, affect studies, production culture studies, and anthropology of the body. So far, her articles have been published in Media, Culture and Society; Communication, Culture and Critique; South Asian Diaspora, among others. More information on her research can be found on her website www.priyamsinha.com. She can also be reached at https://twitter.com/PriyamSinha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. This spatial pairing has transformed the experience of moviegoing, making it impossible to inhabit one space without also passing through the other. The rise of the mall-multiplex signals a broader shift in the spectatorial imagination: away from cinema halls built for the subaltern male viewer, toward environments curated for the aspiring, mobile, and consuming middle-class woman. Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of this infrastructural and cultural transformation as it unfolded across media industries, architectural design, urban planning, and popular cinema. Tracing the multiplex's evolution in post-liberalization India, Tupur Chatterjee reveals how this new built form not only reconfigured cinematic space, but also reshaped the aesthetics, publics, and gendered politics of the contemporary Indian city. Rather than narrating a linear history of technological replacement, the book situates the multiplex within a longer genealogy of postcolonial urban design—one marked by caste- and class-based anxieties around visibility, safety, and leisure. It argues that the architectural mediation of cinema is central to how desire, modernity, and risk are organised in India's media cities. Drawing on industrial and organisational ethnography, in-depth interviews, participant observation, discourse and textual analysis, and archival research, Projecting Desire maps the multiplex as a space where film, infrastructure, and aspiration intersect. In doing so, it offers a critical framework for understanding how gendered publics are produced through the infrastructures of cinematic experience in the Global South. Dr Tupur Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her research spans global media industries, feminist media studies, urban spatial politics, and the material life of media technologies. Her work has been published in journals like Television and New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Porn Studies among others.  Dr Priyam Sinha is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and is based at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her PhD from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical media industry studies, disability studies, gender studies, affect studies, production culture studies, and anthropology of the body. So far, her articles have been published in Media, Culture and Society; Communication, Culture and Critique; South Asian Diaspora, among others. More information on her research can be found on her website www.priyamsinha.com. She can also be reached at https://twitter.com/PriyamSinha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. This spatial pairing has transformed the experience of moviegoing, making it impossible to inhabit one space without also passing through the other. The rise of the mall-multiplex signals a broader shift in the spectatorial imagination: away from cinema halls built for the subaltern male viewer, toward environments curated for the aspiring, mobile, and consuming middle-class woman. Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of this infrastructural and cultural transformation as it unfolded across media industries, architectural design, urban planning, and popular cinema. Tracing the multiplex's evolution in post-liberalization India, Tupur Chatterjee reveals how this new built form not only reconfigured cinematic space, but also reshaped the aesthetics, publics, and gendered politics of the contemporary Indian city. Rather than narrating a linear history of technological replacement, the book situates the multiplex within a longer genealogy of postcolonial urban design—one marked by caste- and class-based anxieties around visibility, safety, and leisure. It argues that the architectural mediation of cinema is central to how desire, modernity, and risk are organised in India's media cities. Drawing on industrial and organisational ethnography, in-depth interviews, participant observation, discourse and textual analysis, and archival research, Projecting Desire maps the multiplex as a space where film, infrastructure, and aspiration intersect. In doing so, it offers a critical framework for understanding how gendered publics are produced through the infrastructures of cinematic experience in the Global South. Dr Tupur Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her research spans global media industries, feminist media studies, urban spatial politics, and the material life of media technologies. Her work has been published in journals like Television and New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Porn Studies among others.  Dr Priyam Sinha is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and is based at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her PhD from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical media industry studies, disability studies, gender studies, affect studies, production culture studies, and anthropology of the body. So far, her articles have been published in Media, Culture and Society; Communication, Culture and Critique; South Asian Diaspora, among others. More information on her research can be found on her website www.priyamsinha.com. She can also be reached at https://twitter.com/PriyamSinha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. This spatial pairing has transformed the experience of moviegoing, making it impossible to inhabit one space without also passing through the other. The rise of the mall-multiplex signals a broader shift in the spectatorial imagination: away from cinema halls built for the subaltern male viewer, toward environments curated for the aspiring, mobile, and consuming middle-class woman. Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of this infrastructural and cultural transformation as it unfolded across media industries, architectural design, urban planning, and popular cinema. Tracing the multiplex's evolution in post-liberalization India, Tupur Chatterjee reveals how this new built form not only reconfigured cinematic space, but also reshaped the aesthetics, publics, and gendered politics of the contemporary Indian city. Rather than narrating a linear history of technological replacement, the book situates the multiplex within a longer genealogy of postcolonial urban design—one marked by caste- and class-based anxieties around visibility, safety, and leisure. It argues that the architectural mediation of cinema is central to how desire, modernity, and risk are organised in India's media cities. Drawing on industrial and organisational ethnography, in-depth interviews, participant observation, discourse and textual analysis, and archival research, Projecting Desire maps the multiplex as a space where film, infrastructure, and aspiration intersect. In doing so, it offers a critical framework for understanding how gendered publics are produced through the infrastructures of cinematic experience in the Global South. Dr Tupur Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her research spans global media industries, feminist media studies, urban spatial politics, and the material life of media technologies. Her work has been published in journals like Television and New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Porn Studies among others.  Dr Priyam Sinha is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and is based at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her PhD from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical media industry studies, disability studies, gender studies, affect studies, production culture studies, and anthropology of the body. So far, her articles have been published in Media, Culture and Society; Communication, Culture and Critique; South Asian Diaspora, among others. More information on her research can be found on her website www.priyamsinha.com. She can also be reached at https://twitter.com/PriyamSinha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In the wake of Congressional investigations into a wave of so-called “anti-Semitism” on university campuses, college administrators are bending over backwards to appease Right Wing politicians and wealthy donors at the expense of civil liberties, and free speech and academic freedom protections. They particularly operationalize notions of public safety and feelings of safety to mute protests over the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, a genocide enabled by these same universities and the United States as a whole. Thus we see a warped set of values and priorities wherein the most principled people are being disciplined, suspended, and expelled from campus. Hamza El Boudali, a student activist, Nicole Morse, a professor long involved in the movements for Palestinian rights and LGBTQ justice, and Natasha Lennard, a journalist from The Intercept who has been covering these cases join us for a conversation that ranges from the immediate case at Columbia to a broad discussion of attacks on education by the right wing. We end with arguments for the future.Hamza El Boudali is a master's student at Stanford University studying Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Born in Morocco and raised in New Hampshire, he is a practicing Muslim interested in Muslim and Islamic causes worldwide. He is a former co-President of the Muslim Student Union at Stanford and he is passionate about advocacy for Palestine as well as other oppressed Muslim groups around the world such as the Uyghurs, Rohingya, Kashmiris, etc. After graduation, he plans to study the traditional Islamic sciences and combine his interest in AI with Islamic studies, philosophy, and intellectual activism.Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept, and her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, Dissent, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of Violence: Humans in Dark Times (with Brad Evans, CityLights, 2018), and Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Verso, 2019). She is working on her next book, on conceptualizing uncertainty, for Verso Books.Nicole Erin Morse is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Their research has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, Jump Cut, Discourse, and elsewhere, and their book Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art was published by Duke University in 2022. They are a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, which has landed them on Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist.  

What do Uber and OnlyFans have in common? Did  camgirilng really originate from a 24 hour live stream of a Trojan coffee pot? And fellas, is it cheating to have an OnlyFans subscription AND a wife? These burning questions (and more) will be answered in this episode, where Hannah and Maia discuss the multivalent world of OnlyFans and the ways it transformed sex work, for better or for worse. It may have been a saving grace for out-of-work people during the pandemic, but is OF a hero of the gig economy, or an agent of it? Tangents include: Twitch's great grandfather, Justin.tv; the high culture-ification of fast food; and Maia using the term “-ification” till she gets woman'd right off the internet.  Get a whole month of great cinema FREE: mubi.com/rehash Support us on Patreon and get juicy bonus content: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast⁠ Intro and outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills: ⁠https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic SOURCES: Feona Attwood, “Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online” in New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity (2011). Steve Baldwin, “Forgotten Web Celebrities: Jennicam.org's Jennifer Ringley” Ghost Sites of the Web (2004). Marta Biino and Madeline Berg, “The secret of OnlyFans: It's much more than porn” Business Insider (2024). Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: A History, Workman Publishing Company (2022). Charlotte Colombo, “The history of OnlyFans: how the controversial platform found success and changed online sex work” Business Insider (2021). Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith, “Onlyfans as Gig-Economy Work: A nexus of precarity and stigma” Porn Studies, Taylor & Francis (2023). Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, Megan Speciale and Richard S. Balkin, “Sexual Attitudes and Characteristics of OnlyFans Users” Archives of Sexual Behavior (2022). Sophie Sanchez, “The World's Oldest Profession Gets a Makeover: Sex Work, OnlyFans, and Celebrity Participation”, Women Leading Change, vol 6 (1) (2022).

If you were a teenage boy in 2008 and you didn't have a “God Bless Sasha Grey t-shirt”, did you even exist? Ever since indie sleaze darling, Sasha Grey, burst onto the porn scene in the mid aughts, its become a bit cooler to say hey, “I watch this.” But while Sasha represented a feminist shift in the industry, her fringe sexuality may have played into a dangerous trend in internet porn. In this episode, Hannah and Maia ask the important question: should Sasha be The Pied Piper of Porn™, or can we find a Sasha grey area? Listen for tangents such as: the Tina Fey-aissance, and Stanley Kubrick's lost film: “Squirt Gangb@ng”.  Support us on Patreon and get juicy bonus content: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast⁠ Intro and outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills: ⁠https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic SOURCES: Dave Gardetta, “The Teenager & the Porn Star” Los Angeles Magazine (2006). Stephen Heymen, “Grey Matter” New York Times (2011). PopMatters Staff, “The New Breed: Sasha Grey, Atelecine, and the New Morality” PopMatters (2010). Rebecca Saunders, “Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: the legacy of porn star Sasha Grey”, Porn Studies, vol. 5 (4) (2018). Karley Sciortino, “Going Deep with Sasha Grey” Slutever (2014). Eran Shor & Kimberly Seida, ““Harder and Harder”? Is Mainstream Pornography Becoming Increasingly Violent and Do Viewers Prefer Violent Content?” The Journal of Sex Research (2018). Brandon Stosuy, “Sasha Grey: Dawn of the Porn Star” The Fanzine (2006).

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ (Content Warning) There will be a lot of discussion about gay sex and pornography...you've been warned! Andrew first saw Tim Dean's name when he was an undergrad at Kean University and encountered a book called "Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking." That was 10 years ago and now Andrew is virtually sitting down with Dr. Tim Dean to revisit his iconic book on gay men engaging in condomless sex and representations of it in gay pornography, specifically Treasure Island Media! As Tim explains, he is not necessarily a queer studies scholar but a sex scholar. Don't worry, he'll explain the distinction in the interview. Andrew asks what the difference is between Porn Studies and Sex Studies and asks whether these academic fields are growing or shrinking at the university level? Tim then reflects on his 1995 essay "On the Eve of a Queer Future" and explains why Leo Bersani's 1987 essay "Is the Rectum a Grave?" deeply influenced his discussion about the newly emerging field of queer studies. For all of you gay pornography fans, Tim dissects Paul Morris, founder of Treasure Island Media's early amateur porn films and Andrew wants to know why this aesthetic so appeals to Tim? And they leave you on the edge of your seats since Tim is about to open up about what Andrew describes as a 2023 renaissance of the male nude body...Part 2 comes out on Saturday! Read more about Tim's work and see all of his publications here: https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/dean Get your hands on "Unlimited Intimacy" here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo6485469.html Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all your humanities related books. Use code ivorytower for 20% off your⁠⁠⁠⁠ broadviewpress.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠order. To subscribe to The Gay and Lesbian Review visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠glreview.org⁠⁠⁠⁠. Click Subscribe, and enter promo code ITBR to receive a free copy with any print or digital subscription. Order from ⁠⁠⁠⁠@mandeemadeit⁠⁠⁠⁠, mention ITBR, and with your first order you'll receive a free personalized gift! Follow That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema on Instagram, ⁠⁠⁠⁠@thatolgayclassiccinema⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow ITBR on IG, ⁠⁠⁠⁠@ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠⁠⁠, TikTok, ⁠⁠⁠⁠@ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠⁠⁠, and Twitter, ⁠⁠⁠⁠@IvoryBoilerRoom⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks to the ITBR team! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Andrew Rimby⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Host/Director) and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mary DiPipi⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Chief Contributor) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/support

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Shermer and Klein discuss: sex therapist and the reasons people seek therapy • self-help sex books • sexual orientation • asexuality • sex abuse • infidelity • monogamy • polyamory • trans • homosexuality • sex education • the case against the sexual revolution • sex addiction • pornography • the anti-pornography movement • prostitution • obscenity and censorship • pedophilia. Marty Klein has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist in Palo Alto, California for 42 years — over 40,000 sessions with individuals and couples. Marty is the author of seven books on sexuality, including Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex and How to Get it; His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America's PornPanic with Honest Talk about Sex; Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex you Really Want; Ask Me Anything: Dr. Klein Answers the Sex Questions You'd Love to Ask; and America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty. Marty is an outspoken critic of many popular and clinical ideas about sexuality and emotional health. Wikipedia cites him as the foremost critic of the concept of sex addiction. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Porn Studies. And each year Marty gives expert testimony in various state and federal courts. A former instructor at Stanford Medical School, Marty's humor, insights, and down-to-earth approach are regularly featured in the national media, such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, Nightline, NPR, and the Huffington Post.

“Those who identify as feminist pornographers are primarily independent, sole operators and performers, creating their own vision of good porn. Very few work with the larger US companies, although there have been a few such as Tristan Taormino who have made films for the big labels, hoping to encourage change within those organizations. But primarily we are still a small group working for ourselves. We don't tend to phone Steven Hirsch at Vivid and say “Hey, you know you should start calling your films feminist, you'll make millions!” The pornography we make is hugely varied and covers the entire spectrum of human sexuality. It seeks to represent all bodies, all genders, all fantasies — and that can include kinky sex that is often misrepresented as being “violent” and “harmful” in research. The common element you'll see in feminist porn is a focus on respect, consent and pleasure. One of the key things that unite feminist pornographers is that we don't just make porn; we are also a community and we talk about things. We have conferences and we critically think about all aspects of pornography. We participate in academic studies, we write for Porn Studies, we blog, we read, we get together and talk about what's wrong with porn and what we can do to change that. We are being the change we want to see in the world. We also talk about ethical production methods and sex work. Part of the feminist porn movement is a discussion about labour and how producers and performers can work together for mutual benefit. Of course, ethical production is by no means exclusive to those who identify as feminist within the porn world. What is different is that we are bringing this issue into the conversation and making our ethics and methods explicit to the audience, seeking to dispel any concerns that they may have about how that porn was made. McNally talks of “trade” but she doesn't speak of the exploratory nature of feminist porn. Some of us may be straight-up capitalists and others are doing it for political reasons, for personal reasons, for charity, for love. Some of us are making a profit, some are struggling to pay the rent. Some of us are finding new ways to interact with the public and to create a user-generated experience that centres the viewer and their desires and politics. Some of us are crowdfunding, some are trying to create a sustainable non-profit payment model for porn, others are developing payment models that profit-share with performers. And here's the thing that Laura McNally dismissed in her article: we may be small but we are making a difference. Feminist porn is becoming a “brand” of sorts. The media is increasingly reporting on it. Consumers are becoming more aware of the possibility of a more positive kind of porn. More importantly, the US mainstream porn industry IS taking notice. Industry awards night XBiz has introduced a “Feminist Porn Release” category and have been hosting panels on feminist and women-made porn for several years at their annual conference and trade show. Similarly, AVN has come on board with a feminist porn discussion at their conference. There is an increasing awareness in the industry of consumer demand for ethical porn. Better still, a new performer advocacy group has formed — APAC USA. Not quite a union, it is still a vital step toward a more transparent and ethical porn industry. APAC aims to “provide representation for performers in the adult film industry and to protect performers' rights to a safer and more professional work environment.” Sure, some of these changes may well just be “femwashing”. And yes, a lot of porn remains sexist and sex-negative, especially what you see on free tube sites. But change is happening and it is worth celebrating.” Links: https://medium.com/@msnaughty/how-to-be-an-anti-porn-campaigner-a9b492a5756e and https://medium.com/@msnaughty/how-the-porn-industry-can-lift-its-game-on-consent-9aad11aa0efd. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

Dam Internet, You Scary! hosts Patrick Cloud and Tahir Moore break down the disturbing but interesting stories on the internet! Guest: Jamie Riley https://www.instagram.com/jamieariley S/O to our Sponsors: Credit Karma Go to CreditKarma.com or the Credit Karma app to find the card for you.  Curology curology.com/DIYS Better Help betterhelp.com/DIYS Join our Patreon now!!  https://www.patreon.com/DamInternetYouScary

A university in Utah is offering a class to study hardcore porn. Does the Bible indicate this kind of depravity anywhere? Yes, yes it does. Michael and Adam discuss this craziness in light of Bible prophecy. www.thinlinebelievers.com Instagram: @thinlinebelievers

In this episode we go in search of Dracula's treasure with a Mexican masked wrestler and Dr Dolores Tierney, head of Film Studies at the University of Sussex. You can watch El Vampiro y el Sexo with English subtitles on Archive.org if you want to play along at home.Dolores wrote an excellent article on this film for the journal Porn Studies which you can find HERE, and the book chapter referred to in this episode can also be found HERE.Do get in touch with us via Twitter @secondfeatures or our email secondfeaturespod@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you! Please also leave us a rating and a review wherever you listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pietro Adamo"Hard Core: istruzioni per l'uso"Sessuopolitica e porno di massaMimesis Edizionihttp://mimesisedizioni.it/La pornografia continua a impattare sulla società occidentale con forza inusitata. È dalla fine degli anni '60, quando è diventata di massa, che tocca, influenza e persino modifica i comportamenti sessuali, le relazioni di genere, l'immaginario erotico nel suo complesso. Per questi motivi se ne sono interessati miriadi di studiosi, producendo una bibliografia immensa. Pietro Adamo, uno dei veterani italiani dei “Porn Studies”, polemizza con lo stile di tali saggi, del tutto ignari delle pratiche sociali e culturali che fanno della pornografia un genere popolare di grande consumo. Leggendo l'hard core all'incrocio tra l'istanza di emancipazione sessuale dalla morale tradizionale che lo ha ispirato, sin dai suoi esordi a inizio '500, e la sua inerente sessuopolitica, tarata sull'occhio maschile e orientata alla subordinazione femminile, Adamo scende negli inferi del porno “vero”, discutendo tendenze e scuole, assetti produttivi e autori, presenza e assenza della donna, passando dai primi filmini in Super8 ai successi sul grande schermo, dall'avvento della videocassetta all'affermazione dell'hard in rete, scavando nelle sue motivazioni, nelle sue ragioni d'essere, nelle sue oscillazioni culturali e politiche. Pietro Adamo insegna Storia delle dottrine politiche all'Università degli Studi di Torino. Si occupa della cultura politica del protestantesimo radicale, della storia della tradizione libertaria e del percorso delle controculture. Trai suoi ultimi libri: L'anarchismo americano nel Novecento (2016) e William Godwin e la società libera (2017). Sul fenomeno hard core ha scritto La pornografia e i suoi nemici (1996) e Il porno di massa (2004).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Is porn a problem, or is porn just a way we medicate our deeper problems? Here are three studies that look at the impacts of pornography!Check out the Purity Assessment!Click here for the Porn Studies! 

This week we're traveling back to the 1920s up through the 1950s with an NSFW episode on Professor Marston on the Wonder Women! Join us to learn about the love story between Elizabeth Marston, William Marston, and Olive Byrne, corset fetish photography, comic books, and more! Sources: Charles Guyette: Tony Mitchell, "Review of Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art," The Fetishistas, available at https://thefetishistas.com/charles-guyette-unsung-fetish-hero/ Charles Guyette, FetHistory. Available at https://fethistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/charles-guyette-in-robert-harrison_3.html Linda Williams, Porn Studies. Duke University Press, 2004. Free Love: "Victoria Woodhull, And The Truth Shall Make You Free: A Speech On The Principles Of Social Freedom. 1871. Available at http://gos.sbc.edu/w/woodhull.html" Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20715/20715-h/20715-h.htm Wendy Hayden, "(R)Evolutionary Rhetorics: Science and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Free Love Discourse," Rhetoric Review 29, 2 (2010) Christina Simmons, "Women's Power in Sex Radical Challenges to Marriage in the Early Twentieth Century United States," Feminist Studies 29, 1 (2003) Mytheli Srinivas, "Birth Control in the Shadow of Empire: The Trials of Annie Besant, 1877-1878," Feminist Studies 21, 3 (2015) Leigh Ann Wheeler, "Where Else But Greenwich Village? Love, Lust, and the Emergence of the American Civil Liberties Union's Sexual Rights Agenda, 1920-1931," Journal of the History of Sexuality 21, 1 (2012) Penis Envy: Freud, "Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality," Full Text available at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Contributions_to_the_Theory_of_Sex MC Gaines: William Moulton Marston, "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," The American Scholar 13:1 (Winter 1943-44): 35-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41204638 W.W. D. Sones, "The Comics and Instructional Method," The Journal of Educational Sociology 18:4 (December 1944): 232-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2262696 M.C. Gaines, "Narrative Illustration: The Story of Comics," in Comic Art in Museums ed. Kim A. Munson (University of Mississippi Press, 2020) 88-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv128fpwk.12 Shawna Kidman, Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood (University of California Press, 2019), 18-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvfxvb4q.6 Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 (Rutgers University Press, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qft01w.5 Noah Berlatsky, "Not the Secret History of Wonder Woman," The Hooded Utilitarian (17 November 2014). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/11/not-the-secret-history-of-wonder-woman/ Alex Buchet, "Prehistory of the Superhero (Part Seven): Reign of the Superman," The Hooded Utilitarian (5 November 2013). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2013/11/prehistory-of-the-superhero-part-seven-reign-of-the-superman/ Carol L. Tilley, ""Superman Says, 'Read!'" National Comics and Reading Promotion," Children's Literature in Education 44 (2013): 251-263. https://rdcu.be/ce2wF Louis Menand, "The Horror: Books" The New Yorker 84:7 (31 March 2008): 124. Film Background: Mark Jenkins, "'Professor Marston And The Wonder Women' Is Strangely Subdued," NPR (12 October 2017). https://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/555647901/-professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-is-strangely-subdued Christie Marston, "What 'Professor Marston Misses About Wonder Woman's Origins" The Hollywood Reporter (20 October 2017). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/what-professor-marston-misses-wonder-womans-origins-guest-column-1049868 Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Marston_and_the_Wonder_Women Heather Hogan “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Gives Us Comics History, Kink and a Queer Poly Marriage" Autostraddle (13 October 2017). https://www.autostraddle.com/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-gives-us-comics-history-kink-and-a-queer-poly-marriage-397758/ Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/professor_marston_and_the_wonder_women BUILD Series https://youtu.be/pB-ZZWvvlcE Angelique Jackson, "Netflix in Talks to Acquire Rebecca Hall's 'Passing' in Near $16 Million Deal," Variety (3 February 2021). https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-passing-acquisition-deal-rebecca-hall-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-1234899976/ Early Relationship: Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014). "Wonder Woman (LAW 1918) BU alum said to be model for first female superhero," Bostonia. http://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/law-alumni-dc-comics-wonder-woman/

Die Pornoindustrie setzt mehr Geld um als Hollywood. Zeit, einen Blick in die Schmuddelecke zu werfen.

In a perfect meeting of interests Abby and Sam get to nerd out about the effects of legal and digital censorship on erotic material. We trace the history of book banning in Australia up to the chilling effects of the current American SESTA/FOSTA laws on internet content. Turns out when the people making censorship decisions are overwhelmingly pale, male and stale, it isn't just about sexy books but also ongoing censorship of minority groups. Who'd have guessed? Resources and further reading for nerdy slutsOn the history and ongoing impact of obscenity laws and censorship, where it comes from and who makes the decisions:Introducing Australia's Bibliography of Banned Books by Marita Bullock and Nicole MooreSex Censorship: The Assumptions of Anti-Obscenity Laws and the Empirical Evidence, by Robert B Cairns, James CN Paul, and Julius WishnerMinnesota Law Review (1962).If not a fist, then what about a stump? Ableism and heteronormativity within Australia's porn regulations, by Ryan Thorneycroft, Porn Studies (2020), 7:2, p 152-1.On modern censorship, sesta/fosta, sex work vs sex trafficking and algorithmic bias:Listen to the 'You're Wrong About' podcast episode on Human Trafficking, moral panic, and it's conflation with sex work here.Learn more about SESTA/FOSTA and it's impact on internet freedoms and modern censorship with this Electronic Frontiers Foundation ArticleMake sure you check out and support Salty, especially their report into algorithmic bias here.Check out the panel Sam organised on censorship and expression online- full of amazing badass speakers: Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Claire Fitzsimmons (founder of Salty), Lola Hunt (Sex Worker and cofounder of Assembly Four), and Celeste Carnegie (of Indigitek), watch it here.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.

Die Analyse von Sex-Szenen als Möglichkeit (trans-)nationale Filmgeschichte zu (be)schreiben? Ja, sagte schon Linda Williams. Filmwissenschaflerin Naomi Rolef hat Sexszenen im frühen israelischen Film untersucht. Sie fand Shlemils, bedrohte Kinder und eine Kultur des "Opfertums". Was erzählen die Israelis sich damit über sich selbst?

"Porno-Konsum ist ein großer Teil meines Jobs", sagt Madita Oeming im ZEIT-ONLINE-Podcast Frisch an die Arbeit. Die 36-jährige Kulturwissenschaftlerin erforscht als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Universität Paderborn die Rolle von Pornografie in der Gesellschaft und hält Seminare dazu. Um wissenschaftlich arbeiten zu können, sichtet sie fast täglich pornografische Inhalte. "Wenn ich einen Vortrag halte, brauche ich gutes Material. Gerade wenn ich spezielle fünf Sekunden suche, um mein Argument zu belegen", sagt Oeming. Oeming schrieb ihre Masterarbeit zu Moby-Dick-Pornos, "was eine große Freude war", wie sie sagt. Weshalb Oeming sich dann den Porn Studies, den Porno-Wissenschaften, verschrieben hat, dazu aktuell promoviert und Seminare anbietet. Einfach sei es jedoch nicht, zu Pornografie und ihrer kulturellen Rolle in der Gesellschaft zu forschen: "Es gibt genau eine englische Fachzeitschrift zu Pornografie. Die ist in Deutschland ausschließlich an einer Universität zugänglich." Mit der Bezeichnung "Porno-Wissenschaftlerin" habe sie sich gut arrangiert, sagt Oeming im Podcast: "Ich identifiziere mich sehr stark mit meinem Forschungsgebiet." Doch manches irritiere auch: "Menschen schicken mir manchmal interessante pornografische Aufnahmen. Das ist schon komisch, weil das ja heißt, dass sie beim Masturbieren an mich denken!"

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.

Megan Maas, PhD, is an assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies. Her work sits at the intersection of sexual violence prevention and sexual health promotion. Her award-winning research, recognized by the American Psychological Association, focuses on adolescent sexual socialization, with an emphasis on the bi-directional role that social media, sexting, and online pornography play in the development of attitudes and behaviour related to sexuality and gender. For the last 10 years, she has been invited to talk on this subject for audiences of students, parents, and teachers at universities and organizations across the US.  On this podcast, Dr Maas discusses the allure of pornography and its impact on relationships and young people. She talks about gender differences with regard to how pornography is perceived and research that suggests it has become a popular medium for both men and women. She discusses the societal influences that cause many people to associate danger with romance, morality and ethics in the porn industry, and how best to talk to your children about sex and sexual imagery on the Internet. Here’s the outline of this interview with Megan Maas: [00:01:32] Megan's background. [00:04:04] The allure of pornography. [00:05:57] Book: Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, by Christopher Ryan; Podcast: Civilized to Death: Are We Really Making Progress? [00:07:51] Anthropologist Helen Fisher. [00:09:46] The history of porn. [00:14:19] The role of erotic literature; Book: 50 Shades of Grey, by E.L. James. [00:15:00] Audio porn: women aroused by sound. [00:16:13] Women’s arousal not limited by gender; Study: Chivers, Meredith L., Michael C. Seto, and Ray Blanchard. "Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films." Journal of personality and social psychology 93.6 (2007): 1108. [00:17:17] Women enjoy gay male pornography; Paper: Neville, Lucy. "Male gays in the female gaze: Women who watch m/m pornography." Porn Studies 2.2-3 (2015): 192-207. [00:17:40] Coolidge effect; Studied in humans: Hughes, Susan M., et al. "Experimental Evidence for Sex Differences in Sexual Variety Preferences: Support for the Coolidge Effect in Humans." Archives of Sexual Behavior (2020). [00:19:32] Women are as likely to cheat as men, especially when ovulating; Studies: 1. Mark, Kristen P., Erick Janssen, and Robin R. Milhausen. "Infidelity in heterosexual couples: Demographic, interpersonal, and personality-related predictors of extradyadic sex." Archives of sexual behavior 40.5 (2011): 971-982; 2.  Haselton, Martie G., and Steven W. Gangestad. "Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle." Hormones and behavior 49.4 (2006): 509-518. [00:20:41] Egg may have a preference for a particular sperm; Study: Fitzpatrick, John L., et al. "Chemical signals from eggs facilitate cryptic female choice in humans." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287.1928 (2020): 20200805. [00:21:19] Oral birth control can affect who you’re attracted to; Study: Roberts, S. Craig, et al. "Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279.1732 (2012): 1430-1436. [00:22:14] Romance has become associated with drama and danger; Megan’s Huffington Post article, 'Boys Will Be Boys': The Lie That Keeps It All Going; Blog post: Love hurts: What we learn from Beauty & the Beast, Twilight, and Fifty Shades of Grey; [00:24:49] Sex education. [00:29:55] How porn affects relationships - is it improving things or hurting? [00:32:17] Simon Marshall, PhD; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Books by Russ Harris. [00:32:35] Morality and ethics in the porn industry. [00:37:39] Megan’s TED Talk: How the Evolution of Porn Changed Adolescence | Megan Maas | TEDxMSU; Interview with Megan on YouTube.  [00:39:58] Book: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children, by Alison Gopnik. [00:40:54] Advice for parents. [00:43:25] Podcast: How to Live Well in a High Tech World, with Cal Newport. [00:43:47] Podcasts with Ashley Mason: 1. Paleo Psychology with Ashley Mason PhD, Mindfulness and Cognitive; 2.  Behavioral Strategies for Diabetes and Sleep Problems; 3. How to Use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. [00:45:59] Talking to kids about sex. [00:46:27] Books Megan recommends. [00:47:23] Book: Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids, by Kristen Jenson. [00:49:02] E-book: Talking with Kids about...Porn: A Guide.  [00:54:07] People who are more religious use more porn; Study: Whitehead, Andrew L., and Samuel L. Perry. "Unbuckling the Bible belt: A state-level analysis of religious factors and Google searches for porn." The Journal of Sex Research 55.3 (2018): 273-283. [00:54:54] Book: The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind, by Alison Gopnik. [01:00:20] Sam Harris Podcast: #213 - The Worst Epidemic. [01:07:56] Megan’s website: meganmaas.com.

durée : 00:54:46 - LSD, La série documentaire - par : Perrine Kervran, Delphine Saltel - Héritières des Cultural Studies, les Porn Studies, nées sur le campus américain de Berkeley dans les années 80, essaient de regarder le porno en face, de s’en saisir comme de n’importe quel autre objet culturel pour l’analyser, le décrypter, le critiquer. Sans jugement moral. - réalisation : Vincent Decque

I think it’s fair to say that most academics are guilty of using particular words on their essays and books that are generally understood by all, yet we rarely take the time to flesh out the definition of that word beyond a sentence or two because we’re too eager to make a bigger and flashier point. And when it comes to pornography studies, words and abbreviations like the “money shot,” “BDSM,” “gay-for-pay,” and “bareback” have been a part of the popular vernacular around the genre for so long, that we just utilize these terms based on their face value, and often fail to update or properly contextualize the terms. Pornographic language is so embedded in our discourse, that we don’t often do the work of defining it. Today’s guest—John Mercer—dedicates a large portion of his book doing exactly that, creating a glossary of terms utilized within popular and academic descriptions of gay pornography that give rich historical and culturally specific definitions of terms like “the boy-next-door,” “twink,” “daddy,” “the beautiful boy,” “the ‘fooled’ straight man,” “the international,” “the amateur,” and “the star.” Mercer is a professor at Birmingham City University and today we’re going to talk about his book, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity, published by I.B. Taurus in 2017. What makes this book remarkable is how it works to establish a linguistic foundation for gay pornography studies moving forward. It’s perhaps the best introductory book for anyone looking to contribute to the porn studies cannon. In addition to defining terms, he also explores his concept of “saturated masculinity,” which for him, accounts for the multitude of ways gay pornographic aesthetics signify beyond the gay community, and in fact spread into heterosexual constructions of masculinity as well. Mercer is also one of the primary editors of the journal Porn Studies, and edited a special version of the journal titled “Gay Porn Now,” where he was kind enough to include my essay on Chris Crocker in the issue. In that issue, he wrote about a popular user created genre of poperbate videos, where the creator edits a porn video with music and prompts instructing the viewer to huff poppers at the appropriate moment. It is one of a series of user-generated porn videos that Mercer’s future research will cover extensively. In this episode we talk about how he actually had to travel to over counties to complete his dissertation because hard core gay pornography was still banned in England at the time. We talk about the hypocrisy of the Conservative Party in England when it comes to the issue to freedom, poppers, and gay sex. And he explains why the smell of old beer reminds him of gay porn to this day! More about John Mercer John’s website John’s BFI Star Studies book on Rock Hudson John’s book Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity   John’s Masculinity, Sex, and Popular Culture project mascnet.org Porn Studies special issue, “Gay Porn Now!” "The Inexplicably Ubiqutous Phenomenon of 'Woods Porn'"  New York Times’ article “What Teenagers are Learning From Online Porn.” The Advocate’s article featuring John’s research The Advocate article referred to in the interview: “7 Thinks to Remember When You Watch Porn.”   In the interview I mentioned the song “Spring is Busting Out All Over.” What I meant to say was, “June is Busting Out All Over.” My apologies to the ghosts of Rodgers & Hammerstein!   facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo

This episode is a testament to the generosity and the collaborative nature of the pornography studies community. When I was browsing Twitter one day, I saw that a previous guest on the show, Madita Oeming, was going to be at the Berlin Porn Film Festival hosting a live interview with pornography start extraordinaire Jiz Lee! I messaged her immediately and asked if she would be kind enough to record the interview for the podcast, and she agreed to do so. I’ve personally never been to the Festival, so I was very happy to be able to hear what’s going on across the pond and I’m even happier to be able to bring this special exchange to all of you. This podcast wouldn’t exist without Madita and and Jiz’s kindness. The focus of this talk is about how Jiz straddles the divide between pornography and academia. They’re uniquely qualified to address this topic considering that they’re not only one of the biggest queer porn stars in the world, but they’ve also been published in a multitude of academic books and journals. Jiz is the editor of Coming Out Like a Porn Star (ThreeL Media, 2015), a contributor to the Feminist Porn Book (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013), the co-editor along with Rebecca Sullivan (another former guest on the show) of Porn Studies’ special issue titled “Porn and Labour.” This is a thoughtful and funny interview where Jiz talks about the special privileges afforded to porn performers who engage with academia, the similarities between pirating both pornography and academic articles, and what it’s like to have one of your campus visits covered by Fox News!     JizLee.com Jiz Lee’s Twitter Coming Out Like a Porn Star Feminist Porn Book An excerpt from "Uncategorized: Genderqueer Identity and Performance in Independent and Mainstream Porn" Lee’s contribution to the Feminist Porn Book  Other writing “Porn and Labour” issue of the Porn Studies journal co-edited by Jiz Lee and Rebecca Sullivan Pink Label TV Transparent Madita’s work about the fallacy of “porn addiction” mocked in the National Review Girls Do Porn Case   facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo

Introduction by Gary Paramanathan, the curator and organiser of Them Heavy People. Gary Paramanathan works at the intersection of arts, culture and community. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Australia, Gary studied arts management, screen and media. He has written and directed a number of short films, written feature essays and recounted personal narratives. His work can be seen on ABC iView, The Guardian and The Journal of Porn Studies (yes!). He works for AFTRS, the national film school in Australia, based in Sydney. This edition of Them Heavy People is celebrating our queer families. How is it like being queer and brown, growing up queer, stumbling into queerness and maintaining a connection with your community and family? Listen in.

Pornography is often talked about as this abstract alien “thing” that has no connection to the real-world experience of any “decent” or “good” person. The thinking goes that since pornography is this anti-feminist and morally damaging abstraction, it must originate from a dark place consumed with hate and misogyny. But what if I told you that, in fact, there’s a whole spectrum of pornography dedicated to paying homage to the most cherished children’s stories and beloved horror classics like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1965), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde (1886), and Dracula (1897)? And how would your opinions of pornographers change if you knew that they loved these books as much as you do? Well, that’s part of the story being told by professor Laura Helen Marks in her book: Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic. Unsurprisingly, Laura’s academic background is in English, and this book is a product of her attempt to unite Victorian era gender and sexual politics with contemporary pornographic narratives. While many people don’t consider pornographic narratives too deeply, Laura argues that many pornographic tropes that we are familiar with today, including notions around a loss of innocence, the bisexual erotic undercurrents of Dracula biting both men and women, and the dual personality traits of pornography viewers themselves, originate from Victorian literature. While we often think of pornography as a medium indulging shamelessly in all types of sexual practices, pornography still needs to establish some type of taboo within their narratives for one of their characters to subversively upend sexual norms. Incorporating conventions from Victorian literature within these pornographic narratives provides both the cultural norms—and characters willing to subvert those norms—all within one book! Additionally, the obvious tension within Victorian novels where sexuality is alluded to with metaphor, is finally liberated within pornographic narratives where the underlining sexuality of these books are realized within pornography. Laura’s creative approach to pornography studies has quickly made her one of the most essential voices in contemporary pornography studies. Alice in Pornoland is one of the most unique pornography studies books you’ll ever read because of the ways it makes you rethink both classical literature and pornography itself. This is a special episode of the Porno Cultures Podcast because it’s our first live episode recorded at Babeland (ironically, another Victorian era reference!) in Seattle Washington. Both Laura and I were in Seattle for the annual Society for Film and Media Studies conference, and I thought that this would be a great opportunity to have a live episode where a bunch of pornography scholars could come together to not only celebrate Laura’s amazing book, but also honor the history of one of the country’s most important sex shops, Babeland!  Laura Helen Marks’ website  Laura’s twitter  “#Following: Laura Helen Marks”  Laura’s Porn Studies article from Feminist Media Histories  Laura’s Rialto Report feature on Jeff Stryker  “Merry XXX-mas: A Brief History of Yuletide Smut”  “The Duce: Porn, Nostalgia and Late Capitalism”  Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy & Fantasy (1976)  “Alice in Wonderland (1976): What Really Happened?”  buy or rent Dracula Erotica (1980)  Rare photos from Dracula Exotica found by the Rialto Report.  Shaun Costello’s open letter To Lauran Helen Marks about Dracula Exotica.  Interview with Vanessa Del Rio  Dr. Jerkoff and Mr. Hard (1997)  “Still Alice Director: Escaping a Religious Cult, Making Porn and Celebrating Julianne Moore’s Oscar”  buy Fuckenstein (2012)  adultdvdtalk.com  upcoming events at Babeland in Seattle   facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo

What about PORN STUDIES? Welcome to my Web Project about this new and vibrant academic field. Find more information on porn-studies.com with video interviews with experts from the field, book recommendations and a porn guide on history and genres. This is the Podcast of this Project. It includes an introduction and interviews with Linda Williams, Clarissa Smith, John Mercer and Feona Attwood. Linda Williams is pioneer of the field, who also invented the name Porn Studies, but she’ll tell us, why she actually doesn’t like to call Porn Studies…Porn Studies. We’ll hear from Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland and Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll tell us, even though most people think they know what porn is, when they see it, how difficult it still is to define Pornography. And we talked about why most of Porn is so obsessed with authenticity. There's John Mercer, Birmingham City University, talking about how Porn Studies is about expanding the debate from the black and white terms to all the other dimensions of the cultural phenomenon that porn is, and we talked about how he started studying gay porn and how people again and again react with prejudice to that academic choice. And Feona Attwood, Middlesex University London and a Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll talk about which topics can be covered by Porn Studies and how young researchers well reasonably think twice about chosing the path of studying porn and how it can affect your academic career. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you think about this project and what you would like to hear about next.

What about PORN STUDIES? Welcome to my Web Project about this new and vibrant academic field. Find more information on porn-studies.com with video interviews with experts from the field, book recommendations and a porn guide on history and genres. This is the Podcast of this Project. It includes an introduction and interviews with Linda Williams, Clarissa Smith, John Mercer and Feona Attwood. Linda Williams is pioneer of the field, who also invented the name Porn Studies, but she’ll tell us, why she actually doesn’t like to call Porn Studies…Porn Studies. We’ll hear from Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland and Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll tell us, even though most people think they know what porn is, when they see it, how difficult it still is to define Pornography. And we talked about why most of Porn is so obsessed with authenticity. There's John Mercer, Birmingham City University, talking about how Porn Studies is about expanding the debate from the black and white terms to all the other dimensions of the cultural phenomenon that porn is, and we talked about how he started studying gay porn and how people again and again react with prejudice to that academic choice. And Feona Attwood, Middlesex University London and a Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll talk about which topics can be covered by Porn Studies and how young researchers well reasonably think twice about chosing the path of studying porn and how it can affect your academic career. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you think about this project and what you would like to hear about next.

What about PORN STUDIES? Welcome to my Web Project about this new and vibrant academic field. Find more information on porn-studies.com with video interviews with experts from the field, book recommendations and a porn guide on history and genres. This is the Podcast of this Project. It includes an introduction and interviews with Linda Williams, Clarissa Smith, John Mercer and Feona Attwood. Linda Williams is pioneer of the field, who also invented the name Porn Studies, but she’ll tell us, why she actually doesn’t like to call Porn Studies…Porn Studies. We’ll hear from Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland and Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll tell us, even though most people think they know what porn is, when they see it, how difficult it still is to define Pornography. And we talked about why most of Porn is so obsessed with authenticity. There's John Mercer, Birmingham City University, talking about how Porn Studies is about expanding the debate from the black and white terms to all the other dimensions of the cultural phenomenon that porn is, and we talked about how he started studying gay porn and how people again and again react with prejudice to that academic choice. And Feona Attwood, Middlesex University London and a Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll talk about which topics can be covered by Porn Studies and how young researchers well reasonably think twice about chosing the path of studying porn and how it can affect your academic career. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you think about this project and what you would like to hear about next.

What about PORN STUDIES? Welcome to my Web Project about this new and vibrant academic field. Find more information on porn-studies.com with video interviews with experts from the field, book recommendations and a porn guide on history and genres. This is the Podcast of this Project. It includes an introduction and interviews with Linda Williams, Clarissa Smith, John Mercer and Feona Attwood. Linda Williams is pioneer of the field, who also invented the name Porn Studies, but she’ll tell us, why she actually doesn’t like to call Porn Studies…Porn Studies. We’ll hear from Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland and Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll tell us, even though most people think they know what porn is, when they see it, how difficult it still is to define Pornography. And we talked about why most of Porn is so obsessed with authenticity. There's John Mercer, Birmingham City University, talking about how Porn Studies is about expanding the debate from the black and white terms to all the other dimensions of the cultural phenomenon that porn is, and we talked about how he started studying gay porn and how people again and again react with prejudice to that academic choice. And Feona Attwood, Middlesex University London and a Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll talk about which topics can be covered by Porn Studies and how young researchers well reasonably think twice about chosing the path of studying porn and how it can affect your academic career. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you think about this project and what you would like to hear about next.

What about PORN STUDIES? Welcome to my Web Project about this new and vibrant academic field. Find more information on porn-studies.com with video interviews with experts from the field, book recommendations and a porn guide on history and genres. This is the Podcast of this Project. It includes an introduction and interviews with Linda Williams, Clarissa Smith, John Mercer and Feona Attwood. Linda Williams is pioneer of the field, who also invented the name Porn Studies, but she’ll tell us, why she actually doesn’t like to call Porn Studies…Porn Studies. We’ll hear from Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland and Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll tell us, even though most people think they know what porn is, when they see it, how difficult it still is to define Pornography. And we talked about why most of Porn is so obsessed with authenticity. There's John Mercer, Birmingham City University, talking about how Porn Studies is about expanding the debate from the black and white terms to all the other dimensions of the cultural phenomenon that porn is, and we talked about how he started studying gay porn and how people again and again react with prejudice to that academic choice. And Feona Attwood, Middlesex University London and a Co-Founder of the Porn Studies Journal. She’ll talk about which topics can be covered by Porn Studies and how young researchers well reasonably think twice about chosing the path of studying porn and how it can affect your academic career. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you think about this project and what you would like to hear about next.

Professor Rebecca Sullivan joins us to talk about her role as the chair of the steering committee for the Sexuality Studies Association of Canada, and her book on the infamous second-wave feminist anti-porn documentary Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1982). The film is directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein, a feminist filmmaker who was an important part of the National Film Board’s Studio D, a project focused on providing female directors the chance to make their own documentaries. The film is co-directed by stripper/activist Lindalee Tracey. And while the film seemed to have started out with the intention of being a progressive analysis of feminist sexual exploration, it eventually turned into the iconic anti-porn landmark that we know it as today. Over the last couple of decades, the film has been lambasted within porn studies circles due to its uncritical adoption of the views of anti-porn feminists like Susan Griffin and Robin Morgan. Interestingly, pornography/feminist scholar Rebecca Sullivan’s book: Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” (2014) is a reparative reading of the film that argues that in fact, the documentary’s importance is in offering a platform for sex workers to speak in their own voice throughout the film. While the film is best remembered for its anti-porn second half, Sullivan’s extensive interviews with Klein herself reveal an original intention to give voice and respect to the marginalized sex worker. And ultimately, Sullivan’s book is a cautionary tale of how a director’s intentions can radically change once the footage is turned over to an editor. This is a bold argument to make considering how much bad will the film has garnered over the years from sex-positive feminists. And in this interview, Professor Sullivan answers all the tough questions we ask regarding her alternative reading of the film. It’s a very enlightening conversation! You can watch Not a Love Story on YouTube More info about Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” More info about Rebecca Sullivan Editorial written by Sullivan titled: “Porn is a Part of Our Culture. Why Shouldn’t Universities Study it?” “The Evolution of Porn Studies” Info about Sullivan’s book with Alan McKee: Pornography: Structures, Agency and Performance (2015) pornocultures.podomatic.com facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures https://concordia.academia.edu/brandrroyo

Das aktuelle Programm der Ringvorlesung Gender Studies und feministische Zukunftsforschung bietet erneut elf interessante Vorträge…Beitrag lesenRV-10-13: Nina Schumacher – Porn Studies. Macht Herrschaft Sex(ualität)?!

Philip Dodd and Susan Hitch review a new production of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana at the ROH. As a new academic journal of Porn Studies is announced Philip and guests discuss whether being morally neutral about pornography is possible or desirable. Sarah Peverley is one of this year's New Generation Thinkers and in her first Night Waves outing she considers the figure of King Arthur. A major exhibition of Lowry's urban landscapes has opened at Tate Britain. Curator T.J.Clark talks about how Lowry's growing stature in the British art world coincided with the disappearance of the industrialised land he depicted.

The first show of the new year helps Joe Ambrose and the Reverend get back into the swing of things. The boys talk about the biggest breasts in the world, taking Porn Studies at university and Reverend takes the mens health girlfriend test.http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/10/27/2161889/03022009.mp3