Porn as practice, porn as access

Pornography consumption and a ‘third sexual orientation’ in Japan

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ID13086379
AuthorsElizabeth A Miles (0000-0002-8643-0655, Kennesaw State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume7
Issue3
Pages269-278
Publication date2020-06-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2020.1726205
OpenAlexW3033828712
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Japan is currently embroiled in an ongoing legal and social debate over the production and consumption of animated sexual images as a particularly damaging genre of heterosexual pornography for men [dansei muke poruno]. Both anti-pornography activists and free-speech advocates agree that such media play a profound part in shaping Japan’s sexual landscape – a site for the shaping of one’s sexual possibilities and sexual self. These debates, however, are also key to shaping normative ideals of what sex is and, subsequently, how one’s right to sexual expression can be curtailed, denied, or legally preserved. Drawing upon native theorizations of pornography and ethnographic engagement with anti-pornography and free-speech activists, as well as one informant’s claim to a ‘third sexual orientation’, this article argues that pornography use itself is a form of sexual practice and thus attempts to curtail its distribution and consumption restrict sexual access and sexual rights

Consumption (sociology · Criminology · Normative · Political science · Pornography · Sexual orientation · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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