Sexual affects and active pornographic space in the networked Gay Village

Arroyo, Brandon

doi:10.1080/23268743.2015.1100799

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“…It gives a sense of reality and honesty" (2015, 70). This relates not only to app-based profile pictures, but also the sexual photos shared between users-a common practice among gay/queer men on hook-up apps (Arroyo 2016), but one that is also commonly practiced among young people more broadly. As found in the most recent Australian National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health, almost half of surveyed participants (44.1%) had received sexually explicit images via mobile phones, and almost one-third (32%) had sent sexually explicit images to others (Fisher et al 2019).…”

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Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People

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Sexuality & Culture

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This paper adds to recent discussions of young people’s porn literacy and argues that researchers must address porn users’ engagements with, and understandings of, different porn genres and practices. As part of a larger interdisciplinary project which consisted of a series of systematic reviews of literature on the relationship between pornography use and healthy sexual development, we reviewed articles addressing the relationship between pornography use and literacy. We found few articles that present empirical data to discuss porn literacies, and those we found commonly frame young people’s porn literacy as their ability to critically read porn as negative and comprising ‘unrealistic’ portrayals of sex. This model of porn literacy tends to be heteronormative, where only conservative ideals of ‘good’, coupled, and vanilla sex are deemed ‘realistic’. Data from the literature we reviewed shows that young people make sophisticated distinctions between different kinds of pornography, some of which could be called ‘realistic’, as per do-it-yourself and amateur porn. We extend this discussion to young people’s understandings of ‘authenticity’ across their broader digital and social media practices. From this focus, we propose the need to incorporate young people’s existing porn literacies into future education and research approaches. This includes engaging with their understandings and experiences of porn genres, digital media practice, and representations of authenticity.

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Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People

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Watson³

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Sexuality & Culture

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“…Most porn studies research on affect builds on the contribution of Paasonen, who in 2011 published Carnal Resonance, in which she develops the titular concept to describe the movement and intensities of affects between bodies and porn. Like Paasonen's Carnal Resonance, most affective porn research typically falls within the first camp of theorizing affect as it relates to porn, given many researchers' focus on intensities and encounters (e.g., Arroyo, 2016;Rehberg, 2019). While a small proportion of scholars have taken up the third position of reflecting on the scholarly self and their affective porn experience (e.g., Vörös, 2015), little attention has been given to the second approach Paasonen identifies.…”

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Carnal Practices: Porn Consumption Among Queer East Asian Men

Jones¹

2023

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Despite its ability to arouse and titillate or disgust and anger (and sometimes both simultaneously), porn has only recently been examined through an affective lens. Writing in the inaugural issue of Porn Studies, Susanna Paasonen (2014) advocates for porn studies scholars to consider how the application of affect theory can help us better understand the appeal of pornography. Drawing on Paasonen’s concept carnal resonance and Margaret Wetherell’s (2012) affective practice, I propose the concept _carnal practice_ as a way to examine how one engages and makes sense of online pornography through the affectively felt practice of searching for, finding, and getting off to online pornography. This is done through an analysis of 48 semi-structured interviews, conducted between February 2019 and September 2020 and in 5 countries—Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan and Canada—in which I discuss how queer East Asian men navigate their respective internet space, are drawn to particular content and platforms that satisfy their desires and curiosities, and make sense of the porn they view. In some instances, participants discussed notions of being drawn to authenticity in porn as well as porn that seems real (that is, most similar to their lived experience), attraction to particular sex acts, scenarios and races, and, in other cases, allowing a platform’s algorithm to help facilitate and fine-tune their desires, to name a few. Although this study focuses specifically on the practices of queer East Asian men, the concept of carnal practice is not limited to this group and has wider application.

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Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s ‘homemade’ gay porn

Brennan

2017

Psychology & Sexuality

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Sexual affects and active pornographic space in the networked Gay Village

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People

Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People

Carnal Practices: Porn Consumption Among Queer East Asian Men

Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s ‘homemade’ gay porn

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