A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
'Any performer you pick!' : playful manifestations of porn spectatorship
Authors: Ihsan C Asman
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Sexualities
Journal name in source: SEXUALITIES
Journal acronym: SEXUALITIES
Article number: ARTN 1363460720967649
Volume: 26
Issue: 8
First page : 893
Last page: 908
Number of pages: 16
ISSN: 1363-4607
eISSN: 1461-7382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720967649
Web address : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460720967649
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/51090900
This article presents a qualitative study of 18 porn spectators' selfreflective sexual narratives. It asks how porn spectatorship shapes one's sexual self and how it connects to transformations in sexual desires, fantasies, and pleasures. Applying theorizations of play into thinking through the relationship between sexual norms and the uses of porn, the article further conceptualizes online porn as a toy - an object to play with and to use for pleasure. Also, it offers to frame porn spectatorship as a finite province of meaning, namely a sub reality and a particular realm of experience, and thus it sets out to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ecology of play at hand.
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