Ping pong in Phuket: the intersections of tourism, porn and the future

Abstract

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EXPOsing Men's Gender Role Attitudes as Porn Superfans

“…). Instead of writing off pornography as violence writ large, contemporary “sexademics” analyze the sociopolitics of the porn industry and explore issues such as racism among performers (Landes and Neilsen ), consent (Brennan ; Groeneveld ; Kleinig ; Scott ), porn tourism (Jackson, Sahl, and Brents ; Mars, Yeoman, and McMahon‐Beattie ), porn politics and economics (Wilkinson ), and moral panics around porn (Keilty ; Ley ).…”

“…Additionally, the creation and consumption of feminist porn and queer porn revels in diverse representations of LGBTQ+ people, race/ethnicity, disabilities, body types/sizes, and a wide range of sexual acts, desires, and fantasies (Attwood 2007;Jackson and McCubbin 2016;Stewart 2018;Taormino et al 2013). Instead of writing off pornography as violence writ large, contemporary "sexademics" analyze the sociopolitics of the porn industry and explore issues such as racism among performers (Landes and Neilsen 2018), consent (Brennan 2018;Groeneveld 2018;Kleinig 2009;Scott 2016), porn tourism (Jackson, Sahl, and Brents 2018;Mars, Yeoman, and McMahon-Beattie 2017), porn politics and economics (Wilkinson 2017), and moral panics around porn (Keilty 2018;Ley 2018).…”

Sex Robots: The Future of Desire

“…Like it or not anthropomorphic sex robots exist, they are here to stay and they will soon be a part of the sex tourism market (Yeoman and Mars, 2012). Tourism and sex have always been linked (Mars et al, 2017). The future of desire includes sex tourism.…”