Paper Title
No Money Shot? Commerce, Pornography and New Sex Taste Cultures
Keywords
- fashion
- passion
- sex marketing
- female consumers
- sexualized culture
- pornographication
- women pleasure
- sex industry
- female sexuality
- consumerism
- erotic products
- body pleasure
- ann summers
- sex and the city
- female desire
- feminine identity
- sexual empowerment
- marketing strategies
- online sex shops
- gendered advertising
- new female sexuality
- sex commerce
- female intimacy
- retail erotica
- women’s erotica
- sex retail marketing
- sensual branding
- fashion eroticism
- media sexualization
- women's agency
Article Type
Research Article
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 441–456
Published On
October, 2007
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Abstract
This article examines two internet websites — Nerve, a magazine devoted to `smart smut', and SuicideGirls, an `altporn' site where softcore sexual display is a major component of a participatory taste culture. Through a consideration of the ways such sites present their commercial and community elements as part of a shared taste and aesthetic, the article investigates how some new forms of pornography are developing to construct sexual display as a form of recreation, self-presentation and community building.
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