Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2228811
Alexandra Hambleton
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2262475
David W. Wahl
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2251506
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Anirban Kapil Baishya
AbstractThis article explores camming practices in India where performers like Oasi Das utilize platforms such as Instagram to invite subscription to their OnlyFans profiles. Focusing on the intersection between Instagram reels, OnlyFans, and escort services, the article locates the varied entrepreneurial modes used by such adult performers. This marks a distinct shift in the Indian adult media ecology that also includes web series and adult OTT platforms catering to a digital desi viewership.KEYWORDS: Indiacammingerotic creator culturedigital media content Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 ‘Open Call for Performers', Facebook. 20 March 2020. https://www.facebook.com/fivemillionincidents/posts/2566002026999931.2 ‘Section 67A: Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form.' India Code: Digital Repository of All Central and State Acts. Accessed 2 December 2022. https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_45_76_00001_200021_1517807324077&orderno=84.3 ‘Section 66. Computer related offences.’ India Code: Digital Repository of All Central and State Acts. Accessed 2 December 2022. https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_45_76_00001_200021_1517807324077&orderno=76.4 ‘Bangalore call girl escort service.’ Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087940980880.5 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck7na8Rpxgl/.6 https://linkr.bio/oasidas.7 https://www.instagram.com/oasi.das.bubble/.8 https://linkr.bio/oasidas.9 See realoasidas (Citation2023a), https://twitter.com/realoasidas/status/1651146103738494980?cxt=HHwWiMDTmcOohuotAAAA.10 See realoasidas (Citation2023b), https://twitter.com/realoasidas/status/1647849599724584961?cxt=HHwWgoDUrd6eq94tAAAA.11 https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933009981107942/.12 https://official.me/radhika21.13 https://www.instagram.com/romaqueen96/.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2265952
Doron Mosenzon
This article investigates the affective encounters between heterosexuality and homosexuality within gay pornography. Looking at three examples – Fraternity X’s Trump Pump, Men.Com’s Fuck the Phony, and Icon Male’s The Therapist – affective resonances of disgust, amusement, and sadness (respectively) are uncovered. Academic writing on straightness in gay pornography has often emphasized either its oppressive effects or its subversive effects. While these three case studies are widely different in tone, style, and content, they all incorporate a more ambivalent affective relationship between gayness and the heteromasculine power represented by straight men than previously discussed. All three films mix the erotic adoration of straight men with derision and mockery, allowing heteromasculinity to remain an object of desire while still maintaining an affirmative gay identity.
这篇文章调查了同性恋色情作品中异性恋和同性恋之间的情感遭遇。通过三个例子——Fraternity X的“Trump Pump”、Men.Com的“Fuck the Phony”和Icon Male的“the Therapist”——我们发现了厌恶、娱乐和悲伤(分别)的情感共鸣。关于同性恋色情作品中异性恋的学术著作经常强调其压迫性或颠覆性的影响。虽然这三个案例研究在语气、风格和内容上都有很大的不同,但它们都包含了一种更矛盾的情感关系,即同性恋与直男所代表的异性恋权力之间的关系。这三部电影都混合了对直男的性崇拜和嘲笑,让异性恋仍然是欲望的对象,同时仍然保持着肯定的同性恋身份。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2225522
David Church
ABSTRACTAdapted (without permission) from Kenneth Anger’s notorious book about early Hollywood scandals, the 1972 sexploitation version of Hollywood Babylon is a quasi-documentary that alternates between public-domain footage from silent-era films and softcore re-enactments of some of Anger’s most lurid anecdotes. The film’s generic reframing of his dubious stories as late-period sexploitation fodder participates in the book’s mission of desacralizing the stars, but its reticence to include unsimulated sex softens the punch of its scandalous subject matter, while inadvertently flaunting Anger’s fictionalization of history. This article argues that the performances in Hollywood Babylon doubly signal the ‘softness’ of both the filmmakers’ depictions of sex and Anger’s Hollywood lore, compounding the book’s thematic linkage of on-screen decadence, off-screen perversion, and movieland failures.KEYWORDS: Documentarysexploitationadaptationperformancere-enactmentscandal Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Here and in the following, references to the Hollywood Babylon pressbook and cover letter are from the private collection of Lisa Petrucci Vraney, who continues to make the film available via Something Weird Video. My supreme thanks to Lisa for making these documents available.2 Ironically, several of Anger’s own late-period films, including Green Hell (Anger, dir. Citation2007a) and I’ll Be Watching You (Anger, dir. Citation2007b), largely consist of pirated footage from gay porn videos.3 Additionally, Dietrich and Von Sternberg’s collaborative Hollywood period was the 1930s, rather than the 1920s, so this segment does not even fit the film’s purview.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2250805
Jacob Sunter
ABSTRACTWakefield Poole’s 1971 pornographic arthouse film Boys in the Sand stages a lavish cruising encounter in Fire Island’s Meat Rack, a globally rare ecosystem now threatened by rising sea levels and erosion. Shadowing Glyn Davis – who maps the erotic convergences between the Situationist dérive and practices of homosexual cruising – I locate the Meat Rack’s sexual and cinematic appeal in its knotted spatiality as both passage and destination. This article glances back and forth between the verdant gay Brigadoon mythologized in Poole’s film and the erosive terrain of the Island’s precarious future, in order to test Sarah Ensor’s theorization of cruising as ‘an unexpected model for a new ecological ethic’. Ultimately, this article underscores the ambivalence of Boys in the Sand as a pornographic requiem for an Island at risk, and a nature trampled by the steps we take to satiate our ‘natural’ desires. Touching the material and metaphoric textures of the Island’s leaves and sand, I consider the potential of ‘cruising’ pornography as both an erotic and an ecological archive.KEYWORDS: Fire Islandeco-criticismcruisingpornoethnography Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
twakefield Poole 1971年的色情艺术电影《沙滩上的男孩》(Boys in the Sand)在火岛的肉架(Meat Rack)上演了一场奢华的巡航邂逅,这是一个全球罕见的生态系统,现在受到海平面上升和侵蚀的威胁。跟随格林·戴维斯(Glyn Davis)——他描绘了情景主义的杀戮和同性恋游弋之间的情色趋同——我把《肉架》的性和电影吸引力定位在它交织的空间上,既是通道,也是目的地。这篇文章在普尔电影中神话般的青翠的同性恋Brigadoon和岛上不稳定的未来的侵蚀地形之间来回浏览,以检验Sarah Ensor的巡航理论是“一种意想不到的新生态伦理模式”。最后,这篇文章强调了《沙滩上的男孩》的矛盾心理,就像一个处于危险中的岛屿的色情安魂曲,以及我们为满足“自然”欲望而采取的步骤所践踏的自然。触摸岛上树叶和沙子的材料和隐喻纹理,我认为“巡游”色情作品既是情色档案,也是生态档案的潜力。关键词:火岛生态批评色情民族志披露声明作者未发现潜在利益冲突。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2221261
Jiz Lee, Kriss Lowrance
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2225512
Xavier Mendik
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