The new ‘Porn Wars’: representing gay male sexuality in the Middle East

Tziallas, Evangelos

doi:10.1080/19419899.2014.983741

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“…One could argue that GMSNAs are part of the continual ''pornification'' of gay male culture (Mowlabocus 2007;Paasonen et al 2007), but pornography has been a centripetal force throughout 20th century Western gay male culture, acting as popular memory (Burger 1995), social organizer (Champagne 1997), and collective heritage (Waugh 1996). Like the amateur and semi-professional images of the past whose purchase and consumption connected together dispersed gay men (Waugh 1996), the digital images we share of ourselves become gay culture in the globally networked world: pornography itself now constitutes global gay culture, surpassing literature and cinema (Tziallas 2015).…”

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Gamified Eroticism: Gay Male “Social Networking” Applications and Self-Pornography

Tziallas¹

2015

Sexuality & Culture

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It is taken for granted that face-to-face contact is the ultimate goal of gay male social networking applications such as Grindr and Scruff. I, however, challenge this assumption and argue that these applications have succeeded not because they fulfill their tacit promise to connect gay men, but by doubling as do-ityourself (DIY) amateur porn platforms. Gay male social networking applications are screening tools that facilitate self-pornification through a process of gamified surveillance. I contend that the rewards for playing the game are often not the sanitized ones promoted by application creators and their public relations departments but the erotic exchanges and byproducts produced during the screening process these applications ambivalently disavow-nude images and erotic chat.

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Gamified Eroticism: Gay Male “Social Networking” Applications and Self-Pornography

Tziallas¹

2015

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“… 33 Representations of race in gay porn is an area that has attracted particular scholarly interest. For example, see Fung, 2005 for representations of the Asian male, and Tziallas, 2015 for the growing interest in Middle Eastern men in gay porn. …”

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Going Bareback: Time and Aging in a Gay-for-Pay Porn Career

Brennan¹

2021

Sexuality & Culture

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This article explores a critical moment of going bareback in the career of arguably the biggest gay porn performer of the 2010s, Johnny Rapid. The analysis reveals a decidedly negative reception of Rapid, the promotion of bareback as event, and the quality of the bareback performance itself, all of which I read in accordance with what these narratives have to tell us about bareback at the time. Yet I also take the opportunity-writing several years after this critical moment in Rapid's career-to reflect on the success of the campaign. I read the case study in line with the concept of time, which has particular resonance with bareback. Through this reflection, I arrive at the conclusion that the time was right for an aging twink performer to be freshened-up by a transition to bareback-similar transitions of which have become widespread across the gay porn landscape in the intervening years between the 2015 Johnny Rapid Goes Bareback event and the present day, thanks in no small part to advancements in HIV prevention technologies.

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‘Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization

Boussalem

Feliciantonio

2023

Gender, Place & Culture

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The new ‘Porn Wars’: representing gay male sexuality in the Middle East

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Gamified Eroticism: Gay Male “Social Networking” Applications and Self-Pornography

Gamified Eroticism: Gay Male “Social Networking” Applications and Self-Pornography

Going Bareback: Time and Aging in a Gay-for-Pay Porn Career

‘Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization

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