Porn.com
Subtitle: making sense of online pornography
By: edited by Feona Attwood.
Contributors: Attwood, Feona.
Series: Digital formations -- v. 48; Digital formations -- v. 48.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781433102073; 9781433102066
Subjects: Internet pornography
Other titles: Porn dot com
Description: "Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of porn labor and professionalism." "It looks at porn style behind the scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views of sex and the self. the real and the body, culture, and commerce."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Online obscenity and myths of freedom : dangerous images, child porn, and neoliberalism / Stephen Maddison; title: Child pornography : classifications and conceptualizations / Adam Stapleton; title: Debbie does Dallas again and again : pornography, technology, and market innovation / David Slayden; title: Porn 2.0 : technology, social practice, and the new online porn industry / Sharif Mowlabocus; title: Younger, paler, decidedly less straight : the new porn professionals / Feona Attwood; title: Behind the scenes of straight pleasure / Sanna Härmä and Joakim Stolpe; title: Horrorporn/pornhorror : the problematic communities and contexts of extreme online shock imagery / Steven Jones; title: Good amateurs : erotica writing and notions of quality / Susanna Paasonen; title: Gay for pay, gay for(e)play : the politics of taxonomy and authenticity in LGBTQ online porn / Jennifer Moorman; title: Widening the glory hole : the discourse of online porn fandom / Simon Lindgren; title: The new world dream and the female itch : sex blogging and Lolita costume play in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China / Katrien Jacobs; title: How do I rate? : web sites and gendered erotic looking glasses / Dennis D. Waskul and Cheryl L. Radeloff; title: Beyond "key parties" and "wife swapping" : the visual culture of online swinging / Alison Rooke and Monica Moreno Figueroa; title: Conclusion: Toward the study of online porn cultures and practices / Feona Attwood.