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Tagging in 3DXChat animated sex game porn production




AuthorsCaetano, Mayara Araujo

PublisherInforma UK Limited

Publication year2024

JournalPorn Studies

Journal name in sourcePorn Studies

ISSN2326-8743

eISSN2326-8751

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2024.2415626

Web address https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2024.2415626

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477089577


Abstract

This qualitative study of tagging practices within online animated pornographic content produced inside the massive online multiplayer game 3DXChat examines how user-generated porn producers position themselves within the structure of the online free porn platform XVideos and the porn conventions they relate their videos to. Based on a purposeful sample of 112 videos uploaded to XVideos, I retrieved 166 unique tags. I contextualize them through a two-year online ethnography experience and discuss them according to information categorization (taxonomy and folksonomy), sexual data within online porn platforms, and pornography. I conclude that 3DXChat user-generated porn is subject to the consolidated sex-tech structures of its time, leaning towards conventional porn categories; the few social tags reflect the in-between stage of ‘niched-mainstream’. Tags exemplify the serialization, indexation, influences, and potential limitations for sexual play.


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This work was supported by Opetushallitus [TM-19-11160]; Research Council of Finland [26080632 PI: Susanna Paasonen Sexuality and Play in Media Culture]; Suomen Kulttuurirahasto [00210210, 00220152 and 00230228].


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