Joseph Brennan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3674153 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph Brennan |
| NOMBRES | Joseph |
| APELLIDO | Brennan |
| FIRMA | BRENNAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7388-954X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Almost Looks Illegal
Family Dick is a commercial gay pornography website that has courted controversy for both its stepfather-son theme and for the youthful stylings of its Daddy's Little Boy series. This article reads viewer commentary (selected from more than 700 comments) of scenes within the series posted to its Pornhub channel. Textual analysis is employed to read the series itself and its distinctive esthetic, which logically leads to discussion of views on the…
Going Bareback
Gay Porn's Bareback Momentum
A profound shift has occurred in the last decade in mainstream commercial gay pornography from condoms to "bareback" (condomless) depictions of anal sex between men. This article explores gay porn's "bareback momentum" as demonstrated by the displacement of condoms in the 10 most visited gay porn Web sites (that have operated for 10 years or more). While all 10 began by releasing condom pornography, the study finds all except one (Falcon) have si…
Queerbaiting and Fandom
"In 2007, while giving a book talk, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling revealed an interesting fact about beloved character Albus Dumbledore's love life. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," she said as the audience erupted in cheers. She added: "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy." Though most fans initially praised the announcement, LGBTQ fans in particular questioned why the author chose to make it informally, while ne…
Introduction
Fans employ ‘queerbaiting’ to call out media producers and performers who they believe have deliberately inserted homoerotic subtext in order to court a queer following and yet never actualize this subtext; it has attracted a level of cultural currency in the popular and scholarly field. In this introduction to the Journal of Fandom Studies special issue on the topic, the issue’s guest editor sets out how the term has developed in extant scholars…
Gay porn networks
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 th…
Gay men and the coming out of Colton Haynes
When Colton Haynes – known for ensemble roles in MTV’s Teen Wolf (2011–2017) and the CW’s Arrow (2012–) – admitted to a ‘gay past’ (2016a) via his Tumblr on 2 January 2016, it suggested (intentiona
Size Matters
This article combines qualitative and quantitative textual approaches to the representation of penis size and sexual position of performers in 10 of the most visited gay pornography Web sites currently in operation. Specifically, in excess of 6,900 performer profiles sourced from 10 commercial Web sites are analyzed. Textual analysis of the profile descriptions is combined with a quantitative representation of disclosed penis size and sexual posi…
Porn penis, malformed penis
This article reads viewer commentary on scene updates on the gay porn review site Way Big so as to consider audience reaction to a performer (Rick McCoy) with a congenital penis abnormality. More than 500 comments over a 19-month period help canvas attitudes towards penis appearance, attending particularly to audience expectations of the ‘porn penis’ and how McCoy measures up. The article explores audience perspectives on what place, if any, ther…
Microporn in the digital media age
This thought piece is interested in the impact of certain digital conditions on pornography. Namely that the context of the content, as inscribed in its original presentation, can sometimes get lost as it is shortened and shared across tube sites. What we find when this happens is that these videos are sometimes then interpreted as real sex by those clicking through. In this article I consider one implication resultant of the removal of context, …
Cruising for cash
Stealth breeding
‘Stealth breeding’ describes a stealth form of condomless sex between men (known as ‘bareback’). While ‘stealthing’ as a practice of non-consensual condom removal affects both men and women, ‘stealth breeding’ is explored here in the context of sex between men. Despite a growing corpus on bareback – as a practice and increasingly popular genre in gay pornography – scholarship on ‘stealth breeding’ remains scant. This article addresses this by the…
Public-sex
This paper reads viewer discourse on a popular series of gay public-sex videos shared online, known as ‘Deerborn’. Deerborn presented itself as occupying a place ‘in-between’ commercial and amateur pornography: both free of the ‘fantasy constraints’ of commercial pornography, yet also mobilising an audience following that allowed it to compete with more commercial offerings. Discourse on these videos offers insight into audience interest in and p…
Exploitation in all-male pornography set in the Czech Republic
All-male pornography websites Czech Hunter, Debt Dandy and Dirty Scout rely on a fantasy of gay-for-pay sex in the Czech Republic. This article explores how these examples construct the ‘Eastern European’ gay-for-pay male and how such constructions are understood by viewers, drawing on discourse about Czech men and Czech pornography on online discussion forums. I argue that these examples of all-male pornography can be understood as expressing ‘e…
Oscar Pistorius
This article performs textual analysis of discourse on Oscar Pistorius that appears on the homosexual discussion forums DataLounge and JustUsBoys. ‘Before’ and ‘after’ discourses – divided by Pistorius’s 2013 fatal shooting of his girlfriend – read Pistorius and his crime along sexuality and disability lines. I argue that it is worthwhile analysing how disability is constructed from different positions of marginalisation, especially when this at …
Jensen Ackles is a (homophobic) douchebag
This article analyses discourse on the DataLounge LGBT Internet forum that debates whether Jensen Ackles (star of The CW’s Supernatural) is homophobic. Textual analysis is performed on five relevant threads created between 2007 and 2014, which have attracted in excess of 1150 responses. This discourse is considered in conjunction with existing scholarship on Supernatural as a cult phenomenon, in particular Ackles’ portrayal of the character Dean …
‘Shouldn’t Tom Daley be a bottom?’
This article uses British diver and homosexual celebrity Tom Daley as a case study to examine instances of homosexual stereotyping on LGBT internet forum the DataLounge. Through textual analysis, I consider the anonymous discourse relating to Daley in terms of its representational implications. Of interest is how Daley is constructed through this discourse and what such constructions have to tell us about views on homosexuality and a particular w…
The ‘gonzo aesthetic’ in gay porn
This article argues for consideration of gonzo techniques beyond the hand-held camera. The article considers other strategies at play in content aligned with the gonzo form, using gay pornography sites Fraternity X and Sketchy Sex as case studies. This broadening gesture is defined by recognition of the ‘gonzo aesthetic’ expressed in these texts. Using textual analysis, other aspects of the selected texts are considered including marketing campai…
The Todd Carney “bubbling” social media scandal
In June 2014, Australian rugby league player Todd Carney had his contract cancelled with the Cronulla Sharks and received a lifetime ban from the National Rugby League after a photo in which he appears to drink his own urine in a public restroom went viral on social media. This article performs a critical analysis of the image at the centre of the Todd Carney bubbling scandal, as well as discourse surrounding it—on two contrasting forums, SharksF…
Queerbaiting
This article explores the concept of ‘queerbaiting’, a term employed by media fans to criticise homoerotic suggestiveness in contemporary television when this suggestiveness is not actualised in the program narrative. I confront the negative connotations of the term and point to the agency of audiences, using the practices of ‘slash fans’ within the Merlin fandom as my case study. I trace definitions of queerbaiting in recent scholarly work and s…
Abuse Porn
Bare-backing spoils everything. He's spoiled goods’
This article uses star study and textual analysis of posts on popular gay porn blog TheSword.com as a means to chart the career of retired power bottom twink Jake Lyons and the manner in which his various career and personal decisions – such as to perform bareback and in fetish porn – are critiqued by participants on this blog. I argue that a discourse of disposal and disgust surrounding Lyons and his actions pervade this forum and that this disc…
Let's Get a Bit of Context
The publishing success of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, a series with origins as Twilight fan fiction, has energised popular interest in the practice of writing fan fiction (or 'fanfics'). Equally, however, the series' popularity has fuelled debate on the ethics of its commercial publication. This article highlights the divisive and polarising phenomenon of 'pulling to publish' in the Twilight fandom. 'Pulling to publish' refers to the proces…
Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies’
This article examines cultures of anonymity (or ‘nonnies’) and secrecy in online slash fandom through textual analysis of fannish reaction to gay magazine DNA publishing slash content. I use the experiences of infamous slash manip artist mythagowood from the Supernatural fandom community to read this critical moment of online discourse creation. Specific cases on LiveJournal communities spnanonhaven and fandomsecrets are examined to reveal pocket…
Not ‘from my hot little ovaries
Slash, a fannish practice, has been celebrated both for its transgression of male heterosexual representations and its female producers. Despite this recognition, slash manips – a form of slash photomontage – have yet to receive sustained scholarly attention. This paper argues that were slash manips to be taken seriously by researchers as objects of study, reductive cultural assumptions concerning gender, genre, medium and intent would be subject…
Size Matters
This article combines qualitative and quantitative textual approaches to the representation of penis size and sexual position of performers in 10 of the most visited gay pornography Web sites currently in operation. Specifically, in excess of 6,900 performer profiles sourced from 10 commercial Web sites are analyzed. Textual analysis of the profile descriptions is combined with a quantitative representation of disclosed penis size and sexual posi…
Queerbaiting
This article explores the concept of ‘queerbaiting’, a term employed by media fans to criticise homoerotic suggestiveness in contemporary television when this suggestiveness is not actualised in the program narrative. I confront the negative connotations of the term and point to the agency of audiences, using the practices of ‘slash fans’ within the Merlin fandom as my case study. I trace definitions of queerbaiting in recent scholarly work and s…
Abuse Porn
Bare-backing spoils everything. He's spoiled goods’
This article uses star study and textual analysis of posts on popular gay porn blog TheSword.com as a means to chart the career of retired power bottom twink Jake Lyons and the manner in which his various career and personal decisions – such as to perform bareback and in fetish porn – are critiqued by participants on this blog. I argue that a discourse of disposal and disgust surrounding Lyons and his actions pervade this forum and that this disc…
Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies’
This article examines cultures of anonymity (or ‘nonnies’) and secrecy in online slash fandom through textual analysis of fannish reaction to gay magazine DNA publishing slash content. I use the experiences of infamous slash manip artist mythagowood from the Supernatural fandom community to read this critical moment of online discourse creation. Specific cases on LiveJournal communities spnanonhaven and fandomsecrets are examined to reveal pocket…
Gay Porn's Bareback Momentum
A profound shift has occurred in the last decade in mainstream commercial gay pornography from condoms to "bareback" (condomless) depictions of anal sex between men. This article explores gay porn's "bareback momentum" as demonstrated by the displacement of condoms in the 10 most visited gay porn Web sites (that have operated for 10 years or more). While all 10 began by releasing condom pornography, the study finds all except one (Falcon) have si…
The ‘gonzo aesthetic’ in gay porn
This article argues for consideration of gonzo techniques beyond the hand-held camera. The article considers other strategies at play in content aligned with the gonzo form, using gay pornography sites Fraternity X and Sketchy Sex as case studies. This broadening gesture is defined by recognition of the ‘gonzo aesthetic’ expressed in these texts. Using textual analysis, other aspects of the selected texts are considered including marketing campai…
Not ‘from my hot little ovaries
Slash, a fannish practice, has been celebrated both for its transgression of male heterosexual representations and its female producers. Despite this recognition, slash manips – a form of slash photomontage – have yet to receive sustained scholarly attention. This paper argues that were slash manips to be taken seriously by researchers as objects of study, reductive cultural assumptions concerning gender, genre, medium and intent would be subject…
Going Bareback
Microporn in the digital media age
This thought piece is interested in the impact of certain digital conditions on pornography. Namely that the context of the content, as inscribed in its original presentation, can sometimes get lost as it is shortened and shared across tube sites. What we find when this happens is that these videos are sometimes then interpreted as real sex by those clicking through. In this article I consider one implication resultant of the removal of context, …
Stealth breeding
‘Stealth breeding’ describes a stealth form of condomless sex between men (known as ‘bareback’). While ‘stealthing’ as a practice of non-consensual condom removal affects both men and women, ‘stealth breeding’ is explored here in the context of sex between men. Despite a growing corpus on bareback – as a practice and increasingly popular genre in gay pornography – scholarship on ‘stealth breeding’ remains scant. This article addresses this by the…
Exploitation in all-male pornography set in the Czech Republic
All-male pornography websites Czech Hunter, Debt Dandy and Dirty Scout rely on a fantasy of gay-for-pay sex in the Czech Republic. This article explores how these examples construct the ‘Eastern European’ gay-for-pay male and how such constructions are understood by viewers, drawing on discourse about Czech men and Czech pornography on online discussion forums. I argue that these examples of all-male pornography can be understood as expressing ‘e…
Gay porn networks
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 th…
Cruising for cash
Public-sex
This paper reads viewer discourse on a popular series of gay public-sex videos shared online, known as ‘Deerborn’. Deerborn presented itself as occupying a place ‘in-between’ commercial and amateur pornography: both free of the ‘fantasy constraints’ of commercial pornography, yet also mobilising an audience following that allowed it to compete with more commercial offerings. Discourse on these videos offers insight into audience interest in and p…
Almost Looks Illegal
Family Dick is a commercial gay pornography website that has courted controversy for both its stepfather-son theme and for the youthful stylings of its Daddy's Little Boy series. This article reads viewer commentary (selected from more than 700 comments) of scenes within the series posted to its Pornhub channel. Textual analysis is employed to read the series itself and its distinctive esthetic, which logically leads to discussion of views on the…
Jensen Ackles is a (homophobic) douchebag
This article analyses discourse on the DataLounge LGBT Internet forum that debates whether Jensen Ackles (star of The CW’s Supernatural) is homophobic. Textual analysis is performed on five relevant threads created between 2007 and 2014, which have attracted in excess of 1150 responses. This discourse is considered in conjunction with existing scholarship on Supernatural as a cult phenomenon, in particular Ackles’ portrayal of the character Dean …
The Todd Carney “bubbling” social media scandal
In June 2014, Australian rugby league player Todd Carney had his contract cancelled with the Cronulla Sharks and received a lifetime ban from the National Rugby League after a photo in which he appears to drink his own urine in a public restroom went viral on social media. This article performs a critical analysis of the image at the centre of the Todd Carney bubbling scandal, as well as discourse surrounding it—on two contrasting forums, SharksF…
Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies’
This article examines cultures of anonymity (or ‘nonnies’) and secrecy in online slash fandom through textual analysis of fannish reaction to gay magazine DNA publishing slash content. I use the experiences of infamous slash manip artist mythagowood from the Supernatural fandom community to read this critical moment of online discourse creation. Specific cases on LiveJournal communities spnanonhaven and fandomsecrets are examined to reveal pocket…
Not ‘from my hot little ovaries
Slash, a fannish practice, has been celebrated both for its transgression of male heterosexual representations and its female producers. Despite this recognition, slash manips – a form of slash photomontage – have yet to receive sustained scholarly attention. This paper argues that were slash manips to be taken seriously by researchers as objects of study, reductive cultural assumptions concerning gender, genre, medium and intent would be subject…
Let's Get a Bit of Context
The publishing success of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, a series with origins as Twilight fan fiction, has energised popular interest in the practice of writing fan fiction (or 'fanfics'). Equally, however, the series' popularity has fuelled debate on the ethics of its commercial publication. This article highlights the divisive and polarising phenomenon of 'pulling to publish' in the Twilight fandom. 'Pulling to publish' refers to the proces…
Bare-backing spoils everything. He's spoiled goods’
This article uses star study and textual analysis of posts on popular gay porn blog TheSword.com as a means to chart the career of retired power bottom twink Jake Lyons and the manner in which his various career and personal decisions – such as to perform bareback and in fetish porn – are critiqued by participants on this blog. I argue that a discourse of disposal and disgust surrounding Lyons and his actions pervade this forum and that this disc…
‘Shouldn’t Tom Daley be a bottom?’
This article uses British diver and homosexual celebrity Tom Daley as a case study to examine instances of homosexual stereotyping on LGBT internet forum the DataLounge. Through textual analysis, I consider the anonymous discourse relating to Daley in terms of its representational implications. Of interest is how Daley is constructed through this discourse and what such constructions have to tell us about views on homosexuality and a particular w…
The ‘gonzo aesthetic’ in gay porn
This article argues for consideration of gonzo techniques beyond the hand-held camera. The article considers other strategies at play in content aligned with the gonzo form, using gay pornography sites Fraternity X and Sketchy Sex as case studies. This broadening gesture is defined by recognition of the ‘gonzo aesthetic’ expressed in these texts. Using textual analysis, other aspects of the selected texts are considered including marketing campai…
The Todd Carney “bubbling” social media scandal
In June 2014, Australian rugby league player Todd Carney had his contract cancelled with the Cronulla Sharks and received a lifetime ban from the National Rugby League after a photo in which he appears to drink his own urine in a public restroom went viral on social media. This article performs a critical analysis of the image at the centre of the Todd Carney bubbling scandal, as well as discourse surrounding it—on two contrasting forums, SharksF…
Queerbaiting
This article explores the concept of ‘queerbaiting’, a term employed by media fans to criticise homoerotic suggestiveness in contemporary television when this suggestiveness is not actualised in the program narrative. I confront the negative connotations of the term and point to the agency of audiences, using the practices of ‘slash fans’ within the Merlin fandom as my case study. I trace definitions of queerbaiting in recent scholarly work and s…
Abuse Porn
Porn penis, malformed penis
This article reads viewer commentary on scene updates on the gay porn review site Way Big so as to consider audience reaction to a performer (Rick McCoy) with a congenital penis abnormality. More than 500 comments over a 19-month period help canvas attitudes towards penis appearance, attending particularly to audience expectations of the ‘porn penis’ and how McCoy measures up. The article explores audience perspectives on what place, if any, ther…
Microporn in the digital media age
This thought piece is interested in the impact of certain digital conditions on pornography. Namely that the context of the content, as inscribed in its original presentation, can sometimes get lost as it is shortened and shared across tube sites. What we find when this happens is that these videos are sometimes then interpreted as real sex by those clicking through. In this article I consider one implication resultant of the removal of context, …
Cruising for cash
Stealth breeding
‘Stealth breeding’ describes a stealth form of condomless sex between men (known as ‘bareback’). While ‘stealthing’ as a practice of non-consensual condom removal affects both men and women, ‘stealth breeding’ is explored here in the context of sex between men. Despite a growing corpus on bareback – as a practice and increasingly popular genre in gay pornography – scholarship on ‘stealth breeding’ remains scant. This article addresses this by the…
Public-sex
This paper reads viewer discourse on a popular series of gay public-sex videos shared online, known as ‘Deerborn’. Deerborn presented itself as occupying a place ‘in-between’ commercial and amateur pornography: both free of the ‘fantasy constraints’ of commercial pornography, yet also mobilising an audience following that allowed it to compete with more commercial offerings. Discourse on these videos offers insight into audience interest in and p…
Exploitation in all-male pornography set in the Czech Republic
All-male pornography websites Czech Hunter, Debt Dandy and Dirty Scout rely on a fantasy of gay-for-pay sex in the Czech Republic. This article explores how these examples construct the ‘Eastern European’ gay-for-pay male and how such constructions are understood by viewers, drawing on discourse about Czech men and Czech pornography on online discussion forums. I argue that these examples of all-male pornography can be understood as expressing ‘e…
Oscar Pistorius
This article performs textual analysis of discourse on Oscar Pistorius that appears on the homosexual discussion forums DataLounge and JustUsBoys. ‘Before’ and ‘after’ discourses – divided by Pistorius’s 2013 fatal shooting of his girlfriend – read Pistorius and his crime along sexuality and disability lines. I argue that it is worthwhile analysing how disability is constructed from different positions of marginalisation, especially when this at …
Jensen Ackles is a (homophobic) douchebag
This article analyses discourse on the DataLounge LGBT Internet forum that debates whether Jensen Ackles (star of The CW’s Supernatural) is homophobic. Textual analysis is performed on five relevant threads created between 2007 and 2014, which have attracted in excess of 1150 responses. This discourse is considered in conjunction with existing scholarship on Supernatural as a cult phenomenon, in particular Ackles’ portrayal of the character Dean …
Introduction
Fans employ ‘queerbaiting’ to call out media producers and performers who they believe have deliberately inserted homoerotic subtext in order to court a queer following and yet never actualize this subtext; it has attracted a level of cultural currency in the popular and scholarly field. In this introduction to the Journal of Fandom Studies special issue on the topic, the issue’s guest editor sets out how the term has developed in extant scholars…
Gay porn networks
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 th…
Gay men and the coming out of Colton Haynes
When Colton Haynes – known for ensemble roles in MTV’s Teen Wolf (2011–2017) and the CW’s Arrow (2012–) – admitted to a ‘gay past’ (2016a) via his Tumblr on 2 January 2016, it suggested (intentiona
Size Matters
This article combines qualitative and quantitative textual approaches to the representation of penis size and sexual position of performers in 10 of the most visited gay pornography Web sites currently in operation. Specifically, in excess of 6,900 performer profiles sourced from 10 commercial Web sites are analyzed. Textual analysis of the profile descriptions is combined with a quantitative representation of disclosed penis size and sexual posi…
Queerbaiting and Fandom
"In 2007, while giving a book talk, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling revealed an interesting fact about beloved character Albus Dumbledore's love life. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," she said as the audience erupted in cheers. She added: "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy." Though most fans initially praised the announcement, LGBTQ fans in particular questioned why the author chose to make it informally, while ne…
Gay Porn's Bareback Momentum
A profound shift has occurred in the last decade in mainstream commercial gay pornography from condoms to "bareback" (condomless) depictions of anal sex between men. This article explores gay porn's "bareback momentum" as demonstrated by the displacement of condoms in the 10 most visited gay porn Web sites (that have operated for 10 years or more). While all 10 began by releasing condom pornography, the study finds all except one (Falcon) have si…
Going Bareback
Almost Looks Illegal
Family Dick is a commercial gay pornography website that has courted controversy for both its stepfather-son theme and for the youthful stylings of its Daddy's Little Boy series. This article reads viewer commentary (selected from more than 700 comments) of scenes within the series posted to its Pornhub channel. Textual analysis is employed to read the series itself and its distinctive esthetic, which logically leads to discussion of views on the…
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