Sexy Media Dissidents: State Regulation, Dissidence, Pornography and Gay Men in Malaysia
| Autor: | Joseph N. Goh, Pauline Pooi Yin Leong, Ghislaine L. Lewis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
Subjectivity media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Taboo Censorship Media studies 050801 communication & media studies Context (language use) Gender Studies Politics 0508 media and communications 050903 gender studies Rhetoric Pornography Sociology Dissent 0509 other social sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sexuality & Culture. 23:192-208 |
| ISSN: | 1936-4822 1095-5143 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12119-018-9550-2 |
| Popis: | This paper considers the effects of media censorship and dissidence in Malaysia within the context of gay men and pornography, and how these oft-considered taboo subjects intersect within the society. Malaysia’s media landscape has revealed many flaws in the country’s political and social environment. The place of gay men and pornography within this media landscape is examined through interviews with gay Malaysian men. It frames the intersection of politics and private lives through the lenses of sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas, feminist Carol Hanisch, psychologist Todd G. Morrison and sociologist Jeffrey Weeks. An analysis of selected interviews reveals that within the Malaysian media landscape, pornography surpasses the realm of pleasure, and is a form of dissent and discreet protest against the regulation of sexual lives. The stigmatisation of pornography and pervasive homophobic rhetoric has allowed these sexy media dissidents to perform new connections, foster self-awareness and move toward increasing political and sexual freedom and subjectivity. |
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