”Other” or “one of us”?: the porn user in public and academic discourse

ATTWOOD, F. (2007). ”Other” or “one of us”?: the porn user in public and academic discourse. Participations: journal of audience and reception studies, 4 (1).

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Abstract

The consumption of sexually explicit media has long been a matter of public and political concern. It has also been a topic of academic interest. In both these arenas a predominantly behaviourist model of effects and regulation has worked to cast the examination of sexually explicit texts and their consumption as a debate about harm. The broader area of investigation remains extraordinarily undeveloped.

Sexually explicit media is a focus of interest for academics because of the way it ‘speaks’ sex and sexuality for its culture. In this paper I examine existing and emerging figures of the porn consumer, their relation to ways of thinking and speaking about pornography, and the implications of these for future work on porn consumption.

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