Paper Title
Queering porn audiences
Keywords
- queer porn
- queering porn audiences
- porn film festival berlin
- canadian feminist porn awards
- shine louise houston
- courtney trouble
- madison young
- representation
- politics
- normative sexual identities
- stereotyping
- desire and pleasure
- collaboration
- “rhetoric of artificiality”
- mainstream pornography
- florian cramer
- queer sexualities
- alternative pornographies
- feminist porn
- sexual expression
- political valence
- queer pornography
Article Type
Book Chapter
Journal
Queer Sex Work
Publication Info
Volume: 12 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 1-12
Published On
April, 2015
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Abstract
A small but important niche, queer porn has grown out of initiatives like the Porn Film Festival Berlin in Europe, the Canadian Feminist Porn Awards and productions by American-based filmmakers such as Shine Louise Houston, Courtney Trouble and Madison Young, who have all attempted ‘to playfully affirm sexuality and reinvent new representations of desire and pleasure’(Ryberg 2013: 142). Queer pornography is, for many commentators, not just representation but an expression of politics struggling against stereotyping and conventional, normative sexual identities and practices (Attwood 2010; Jacobs 2007; Moorman 2010). One of the ways in which queer porn might have particular political valence is in its promotion as a form of collaboration and, as Florian Cramer writes, the ‘replace [ment] of the rhetoric of artificiality in mainstream pornography
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