Zahra Stardust

Indie Porn

Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably, as these paradigms collide, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex, work, and capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026815
• ISBN-10: 1478026812
• Artikelnr.: 70011662

Autorenporträt

Zahra Stardust

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Cinematic Intimacies  1
Introduction: Democratizing Pornography  7
Part I. Porn Cultures
Porno Camp  31
1. Guerrilla Porn: Motivations and Interventions 34
Getting Our Hands Wet  63
2. Imagining Alternatives: Production Values and Ethics  67
Part II. Regulatory Fantasies
What Happened to Our Squirt?  91
3. Criminal Intimacies: Regulatory Trends and Transgressions  94
Diversity Washing  123
4. #NSFW: Online Privatization, Sanitization, and Gentrification  127
Part III. The Hustle
SuicideGirls  157
5. Manufacturing Authenticity: Expression, Identity, and Labor  160
Green, Organic Porn  184
6. Fair Trade Porn: Marketing, Respectability, and Ethical Consumption  187
Part IV. Tensions
Your Stigma, Your Labor  211
7. Good Porn: Stigma, Respectability, and Diversity Politics  213
COVID-Safe Pornography  237
8. Whore Data: Technology, Design, and Carceral Surveillance  239
Birth Preparation  261
Conclusion: Indie Provocations  263
References  275
Index  297