Bisexual and transgender potentialities in pornographic spectatorship

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ID13086362
AutoresJacob Engelberg (0000-0002-1678-8328, University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume11
Fascículo3
Páginas271-289
Data de publicação2024-03-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2024.2310534
OpenAlexW4392511318
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas35

This article proposes a theoretical account of pornographic spectatorship that attends to the abundance, mutability, and unpredictability of the desirous and identificatory potentialities that constitute pornographic fantasy.In its privileging of multitude over singularity, and transformability over stasis, pornographic spectatorship has meaningful connections to bisexuality and transness, taken to be capacious modes of sexual desiring and gendered identification that refuse notions of sexual immutability.In certain psychoanalytic formulations of spectatorship in film theory, we find an insistence on the spectator's sexual unfixity.These are put in dialogue with bisexual and trans media theories that stress the import of spectatorial unfixity qua bisexuality and transness themselves.In pornographic media's metatextual appeals for a spectator to desire and identify, these dynamics are heightened.Although individual experiences of pornographic spectatorship are unpredictable, it persists nevertheless as a process that is affirming of transformational sexual potentialities, wherein bisexual and transgender possibilities might be forged

Sociology · Transgender · Transgender Person · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology