Public health versus performer privates

Measure B's failure to fix subjects

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13086341
AutoresValerie Webber (0009-0003-9482-4405, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume2
Fascículo4
Páginas299-313
Data de publicação2015-09-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2015.1053094
OpenAlexW1783620033
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas40

Porn performance and its interface with the public inhabit a blurry and shifting zone that is difficult to fix. The sex and bodies of pornography are both public and private, both real and fantasy, both individually inhabited and collectively viewed. What happens when the state tries to locate its role and intervene in such a slippery relationship? As of November 2012, Measure B legislation mandates condom use in pornography made in Los Angeles County, USA. This measure is presented as a public health and labour rights measure. Health regulations and discourses of work ethics are often covert means to communicate moral and social imperatives. This is particularly true under neoliberal logics that responsibilize the entrepreneurial subject, and neoconservative logics that promote a certain moral tradition. This article discusses how Measure B, through its appeals to pornography's pedagogic potential and its disingenuous labour rights rhetoric, displays confusion and uncertainty regarding the state's role in individual health and labour. This is partly owing to the inherent contradictions of neoliberal and neoconservative theories of subjectivity, and partly owing to the precarious nature of porn itself

Epistemology · Political science · Pornography · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology