Sexually progressive and proficient: Pornographic syntax and postfeminist fantasies
| Autor: | Usra Leedham, Nicole Cormier, Amy Brown-Bowers, Stephanie Cosma, Maria Gurevich, Alexander T. Vasilovsky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Entrepreneurship
Syntax (programming languages) Neoliberalism (international relations) 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Gender studies Human sexuality Gender Studies Sexual desire 050903 gender studies Anthropology Pornography Mainstream 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology 0509 other social sciences |
| Zdroj: | Sexualities. 20:558-584 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7382 1363-4607 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1363460716665785 |
| Popis: | Mainstream and pornographic images and practice norms are becoming increasingly blurred (Paasonen et al., 2007), while sexual entrepreneurship discourses ( Gill, 2009 ) promote ongoing sexual self-transformation. Women’s sexuality, specifically, is expected to be proficient and perpetually practising. We examine what the mainstreaming of pornography means for sexual desire and agency among 27 young women negotiating heterosex. Participants’ accounts of sexuality and pornography are reflected in a (dis)ordering porn interpretive repertoire. Porn is positioned alternately as: ridiculous and recapitulated performance; a (contested) arousal tool; pedagogy and pictogram; and (resisted) re-enactment pressure. Pornography’s regulatory effects are both rejected and recapitulated. Whether they use porn as a template for sexual possibilities or decry its codes as undesirable, porn acts as an unavoidable cultural reference point for considering sexuality for these young women. A sexual syntax that draws on pornographic images and tropes for sexual desire, pleasure and agency is described. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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