Blue transfusions: internet porn and the pirating of queer cinema’s sex scenes

Tsika, Noah

doi:10.1080/23268743.2016.1174074

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“…In simpler terms, I view online gay pornography sites as powerful cultural objects, and a ‘legitimate form of culture’ (Kipnis, 1996: 163). Yet I also believe that these objects need to be contextualized according to their role in gay culture – often referred to as the ‘pornification’ of gay culture (see Maddison, 2017: 140–43; Mowlabocus, 2007) – and the increasing affordances (and challenges, of piracy [Tsika, 2017] for example) of the digital age. Such a context makes this subject worthwhile for the cultural studies field more broadly.…”

Section: Defining and Reading Gay Porn Networkmentioning

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Gay porn networks

Brennan

2018

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Gay porn networks offer audiences diverse pornographies under a single offering. This article considers how specialist, online gay pornographic sites are made viable via networks, providing an overview of the 10 most popular gay porn networks currently in operation, and making connections between them via qualitative reading. By recognizing the potential for alternative pornographies within these networks, yet not reifying gay porn networks to the production of solely non-mainstream offerings, the article invites a more nuanced assessment of the complexity of the online gay porn commercial environment. Encompassing a total of 50 sites across 10 networks, the study’s broad approach allows for an overview of the most successful networks currently available, with a particular emphasis on branded identity, themes and the construction of studio vs network identities.

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Section: Defining and Reading Gay Porn Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gay porn networks

Brennan

2018

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Consent and Sexualized Leisure in Sin City: Observations from a U.S. Pornography Expo in Las Vegas

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Popperbate: video collage, vernacular creativity and the scripting of the gay pornographic body

Mercer

2017

Porn Studies

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In this essay I explore the contemporary amateur practice of making 'popper training' videos. These examples of amateur gay porn, usually circulated via porn aggregators such as Xtube constitute what might be described as video collages that repurpose a range of found sources including commercial moving image gay porn to still images to text and music. The resulting videos are designed for the express purpose of aiding a form of masturbation often described as 'edging', fuelled by amyl nitrate use, into a pursuit that is elevated to the status of a competitive training activity, known by its practitioners as 'popperbating'. I argue that these popperbate videos, that function as examples of what Jean Burgess has described as 'vernacular creativity', construct masturbation as an activity that might be regarded, as 'productive leisure'. The intention of this essay is then to contextualise this creative practice, and to provide some tentative conceptual orientations to situate popperbate videos, for the analysis of the textual qualities of the videos, and to discuss the sexual scripting that they produce.

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Blue transfusions: internet porn and the pirating of queer cinema’s sex scenes

Cited by 4 publications

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Gay porn networks

Gay porn networks

Consent and Sexualized Leisure in Sin City: Observations from a U.S. Pornography Expo in Las Vegas

Popperbate: video collage, vernacular creativity and the scripting of the gay pornographic body

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