Risk and Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3668754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Martin Morris (0000-0002-3727-8511), Paul Morris (0009-0004-9454-9260), Paasonen (0000-0002-6319-9155), Susanna Paasonen |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 215-239 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-2422656 |
| OpenAlex | W2071537572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 9 |
The utopian promise of porn is one of carnal intensity, sexual abundance, and pleasure. Building on Richard Dyer's discussion of the utopian aspects of entertainment, this article expands his conceptualization to contemporary pornography and the gay bareback subculture in particular. Structured as a dialogue between a gay bareback porn producer and a media studies scholar, it explores the sexual politics of barebacking, the notion of risk in gay sex, the mediation of intensity and sensation within pornography, the role of online porn distribution, and the uses of music in porn. These strands of dialogue are tied to a conceptualization of utopian sensibility within bareback pornography as an issue of transparency, community, abundance, energy, and intensity. The authors argue for the centrality of fleshiness and viscerality in pornography as well as the necessity to account for such carnal intensity, or resonance, in studies of the genre
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Conceptualization · Entertainment · Human sexuality · Literature · Mediation · Pleasure · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance
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The nexus between porn and psychosocial/psychosexual well-being among gay and bisexual men
A decolonial critique of ‘authentic’ pleasure in contemporary Australian heteroporn
Breeding futures
Choosing the right partner means choosing the right porn
You feel that?’ Examining gay porn discourse as hegemonic discursive soundtrack
The maintenance of white heteronormativity in porn films that use Australia as an exotic location
The ‘gonzo aesthetic’ in gay porn
Men’s Pornography, Gay vs. Straight’
Disgusting, dumb, depressing
Antiretroviral Time
Stealth breeding
Public-sex
Going Bareback
I’m Not Gonna Run Around and Put a Condom on Every Dick I See”
Viral breedings
From training wheels to chemical condoms
Sexing the Archive
Gay Porn's Bareback Momentum
Space, affect and contagious bodies
Who cares if you're poz right now
Wanting HIV Is 'Such a Hot Choice
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |