New ‘Porn Studies’ academic journal

[JackLuis]

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New ‘Porn Studies’ academic journal to debut next spring​

First peer-reviewed journal invites experts to contribute in time for spring debut

Porn Studies needs your contributions. The Routledge academic periodical will debut next spring, and a call for papers appeared this week soliciting submissions for “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic”. Two dons, Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, are the editors.

The timing suggests the EL James phenomenon may have provided the impetus for the launch by making erotica ubiquitous; but literary porn is only one of the interests of the top-shelf journal, which is open to offerings from sociologists, criminologists, technologists and experts in cultural, media and gender studies.

Maybe 50 Shades was good for something?

 

[MatthewVett]

Awesome! I hope my university subscribes. Right now I can read the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and they've got some neat stuff. Another good one was about a French study where they counted how many men approached the same woman when she had differently sized bras on. C cups got over 3X as many approached as A cups.

 

[slyc_willie]

Awesome! I hope my university subscribes. Right now I can read the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and they've got some neat stuff. Another good one was about a French study where they counted how many men approached the same woman when she had differently sized bras on. C cups got over 3X as many approached as A cups.

There was a show I watched not too long ago -- Brain Games, maybe -- in which an attractive woman in a white dress approached random men asking for a dollar. She had few takers.

Then she put on a red dress and did the same thing. Practically every man she asked forked over money, often more than the single dollar she asked.

They did variations on the theme, with her pretending to have twisted her ankle. In the white dress, she received little in the way of sympathy. In the red dress, she got carried across the street.

 

[sr71plt]

There was a show I watched not too long ago -- Brain Games, maybe -- in which an attractive woman in a white dress approached random men asking for a dollar. She had few takers.

Then she put on a red dress and did the same thing. Practically every man she asked forked over money, often more than the single dollar she asked.

They did variations on the theme, with her pretending to have twisted her ankle. In the white dress, she received little in the way of sympathy. In the red dress, she got carried across the street.

Now, in no dress . . .

 

[slyc_willie]

Now, in no dress . . .

That would have been off-screen, then later posted to YouPorn.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I hope students will be allowed to contribute! since many are paying their way through college with pole dancing and stripping. Apparently it offers flexible hours as well as good pay.
Thank you guys out there! for your good natured funding of our students.

 

[Handley_Page]

I hope students will be allowed to contribute! since many are paying their way through college with pole dancing and stripping. Apparently it offers flexible hours as well as good pay.
Thank you guys out there! for your good natured funding of our students.

I'm not sure I'd like to see a male student pole dancing or stripping.
Now, is that because I am a normal chap, or is the idea of it sexist ?

 

[JackLuis]

I hope students will be allowed to contribute! since many are paying their way through college with pole dancing and stripping. Apparently it offers flexible hours as well as good pay.
Thank you guys out there! for your good natured funding of our students.

Would that be the Bump and Grind of Academia?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There's a train wreck up ahead for the adult entertainment industry. Online World is gonna kill it.

 

[KlaytonFrost]

It's about time. Porn is fascinating, and I can't believe there's not more of an academic interest in it. Stoya springs to mind, among others.

 

[Handley_Page]

I thought the illustration used was something out of Star Trek.