Webcam modelling in Korea

Censorship, pornography, and eroticism

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ID13086386
AuthorsMin Joo Lee (0000-0002-3340-3143, Wellesley College, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume8
Issue4
Pages485-498
Publication date2021-06-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2021.1901602
OpenAlexW3172079696
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited24

The South Korean government enforces strict censorship against pornography. In spite of such regulations, there is a vibrant webcam modelling industry in Korea that operates under the radar. I examine how censorship influences perceptions of Korean webcam models and their viewers. The central questions that drive this article are: how does censorship against pornography impact the ways that individuals engage with their sexual desires in online spaces; and what are the broader sociocultural consequences of such censorship? I explore these questions in conversation with feminist scholarship on webcam modelling, censorship, and erotics. I argue that webcam models and their viewers form an illicit eroticism whereby they derive pleasure from defying the norms of sexual propriety. I argue that the illicit eroticism that forms as a result of censorship against pornography may have negative outcomes for how women’s sexuality is conceptualized in the Korean cultural context

Advertising · Censorship · Context (archaeology · Eroticism · Human sexuality · Political science · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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