Satisfaction Guaranteed: Your Choice and the Transnational Distribution of Hardcore Pornography Between the Netherlands and Britain

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q4 BUSINESS Enterprise & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-24 DOI:10.1017/eso.2022.13
Oliver Carter
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Recently, there has been increasing academic interest in the historical foundations of the pornography business. However, these studies tend to focus on individual national contexts rather than exploring the transnational relationships that exist, or have existed, between these countries. This article considers how a transnational approach can further understandings of entrepreneurship in the pornography business. It suggests the need for an interdisciplinary framework to examine transnational enterprise in the pornography business, combining ideas from enterprise alongside criminology and economic geography to frame the enterprise history of the Netherlands-based company Your Choice. Based in Amsterdam, but run by British entrepreneurs, Your Choice’s activities can be dated back to the 1970s, specializing in the transnational distribution of hardcore pornographic films to customers in Britain, where the sale of such material is legally problematic. Drawing on ethnohistorical research, which includes primary interviews, workplace observation, and archival and doctrinal research, I use Your Choice as a case study to show how transnational entrepreneurship in the pornography business can create opportunities as well as help to manipulate restrictive laws and regulations. I also suggest that negotiating such legalities carries risk, as does the need to respond and adapt to ongoing shifts in the market.
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满意保证:你的选择和荷兰和英国之间硬核色情的跨国分布
最近,学术界对色情业的历史基础越来越感兴趣。然而,这些研究往往侧重于个别国家的背景,而不是探索这些国家之间存在或已经存在的跨国关系。本文探讨了跨国方法如何进一步理解色情行业的创业精神。它建议需要一个跨学科的框架来研究色情行业的跨国企业,将企业的思想与犯罪学和经济地理学相结合,以构建总部位于荷兰的Your Choice公司的企业历史。Your Choice总部位于阿姆斯特丹,但由英国企业家经营,其活动可以追溯到20世纪70年代,专门向英国客户跨国发行色情电影,在英国,此类材料的销售在法律上存在问题。我利用民族历史研究,包括初步访谈、工作场所观察、档案和理论研究,以Your Choice为案例研究,展示色情行业的跨国创业如何创造机会,并帮助操纵限制性法律法规。我还建议,谈判此类合法性存在风险,应对和适应市场持续变化的必要性也是如此。
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期刊介绍: Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context.
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