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Issue 9.2
2021
Porn and Its Uses
edited by Rebecca Holt, Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Nikola Stepić.
This issue contains sexually explicit imagery.
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Individual Chapters
Introduction
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Introduction
Rebecca Holt, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, and Nikola Stepić
Articles
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Prohibitory Order: Postal Regulation, Citizen-Surveillance, and the Boundaries of Obscenity
Quinn Anex-Ries
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Distribution, Bars, and Arcade Stars: Joe Anthony’s Entrepreneurial Expansion in Houston’s Gay Media Industries
Finley J. Freibert
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Harbord Street Histories: Feminism’s Articulations of Porn: On Good for Her and the Ground of Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards
Bobby Noble
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“A Particular Kind of Romantic Entanglement”: Kent Monkman’s Nation to Nation (2020) and the Limits of Canadian Political Pornography
Eric Weichel
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“Flows of Desire”: “The Pleasure Principle” (2019), Shakedown (2017), and Pornhub’s Political/Libidinal Economy
Jennifer Moorman
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Gay Amateur Porn on Twitter in the Philippines: Primitive Aesthetics and Affect
Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao
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“Can You Toss Me That Shirt Behind You?”: Beefcakes, Ambiguous Masculinities, and Pornographic Bodies in the Video Game Coming Out on Top
Samuel Poirier-Poulin
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Putting Porn Studies (Back) Into Porn Literacy
Clarissa Smith
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Crossovers and Consent: Underlying Assumptions in Porn Health Protocol
Valerie Webber
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Pornographic Altruism, or, How to Have Porn in a Pandemic
John Paul Stadler
Thought Pieces
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Pornography’s Feminist Uses: A Conversation
Lynn Comella and Desirae Embree
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A Conversation with Polish Film Director Wojciech Puś on His Project Endless
Alpesh Kantilal Patel
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Make Your Own Neverland: Where Nonfiction Film Interacts with Lesbian Porn
Jasper Lauderdale
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Porn Poacher: Coming Out as an Aca Porn Fan
Madita Oeming
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Going Public with Pornography Studies: Lessons from Creating the Porno Cultures Podcast
Brandon Arroyo
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From the Classroom to the Theatre: Public Porn Viewing as Counter-public Engagement
David Church
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Porn and/as Pedagogy, Sexual Representation in the Classroom: A Curated Roundtable Discussion
Peter Alilunas, Ummni Khan, Laura Helen Marks, Thomas Waugh, and Kyler Chittick
Syllabi
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Pornography: Bodies, Sex, and Representation
João Florêncio
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Graduate Topics in Gender Studies: Porn Studies
David Church
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Porn in the USA
Madita Oeming
Artworks
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Doll
Martha Muszycka-Jones
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Skin Pleasure
Marius Packbier and Aïlien Reyns
Book Reviews
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Andrea Dworkin. Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin.
Madeline Bogoch
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Ricky Varghese, ed. Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking.
Antoine Damiens
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Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo, eds. I Confess!
Leah Steuer
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Damon R. Young. Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies.
Haley Hvdson
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Elena Gorfinkel. Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 60s.
Vibhushan Subba
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Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, and Ben Light. NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media.
Maggie MacDonald
General Book Reviews
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Jennifer Fay. Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene.
Matthew Ellis
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Antoine Damiens. LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness.
Matt St. John
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Marc Steinberg. The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet.
Keith B. Wagner
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Vanessa R. Schwartz. Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion.
Natalie Greenberg
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Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky. The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor.
Dafna Kaufman
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James Leo Cahill. Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé.
Zoë Anne Laks
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Justus Nieland. Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era.
Kyla Rose Smith
Contributors
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Contributors' Biographies