🗾 Bilingual porn celebrity: Alexandra Hambleton follows June Lovejoy’s persona in Japan—market outsider, affective insider. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🏳️🌈 Bisexual stardom in gay porn: Finlay Freibert recovers Judy Coleman’s 60s/70s career as solidarity, not anomaly. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👅 Loops, licks, gasps: Peter Lehman explores the micro-gestures of digital fetish porn—genre anchored by fragments, not plot. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📽️ Pastiche & parody: David Church dissects Hollywood Babylon (1972) as softcore celebrity drag—awkward reenactment as critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🖤 Tattoo-titted freakdom: James Anderson reads Bonnie Rotten’s body as punk refusal—a spectacle of anti-glam, all attitude. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📼 From VHS to virality: Oliver Carter traces Ben Dover’s decades-long pivot from underground illegality to digital branding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌏 Erotic economies in India: Meet Oasi Das—OnlyFans, Instagram, & intimacy work as multitasking porn stardom in a global South context by Darshana Sreedhar Mini & Anirban Kapil Baishya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💻 Platformed kink: Rebecca Rose Nocella’s ethnography of Countess Diamond reveals the hustle behind BDSM stardom under algorithmic capitalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎞️ Amateur, on repeat: Daniel Laurin shows how Curtis’s familiar presence on Sean Cody is crafted spontaneity—looped gestures as persona. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💪 Queer masculinity stylised: Peter Rehberg dives into Sagat’s blend of gonzo and gallery—porno aesthetics as art-world muscle. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤢 Gag reflex as fame? James K Beggan tracks how Brooke Van Buuren’s “failure” becomes fetish, erotics of abjection as porn notoriety. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🩸 Menstrual blood, awkwardness, unscripted intimacy—Laura Sofia Torre’s take on Consent challenges the smooth polish of feminist porn. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💻 Docu-porn and digital persona: Troy Michael Bordun explores Threesome and Ariel Rebel’s parasocial craft—intimacy built on performance, not spontaneity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎥 Queering the camera: Misha Kavka & Tobias Kunz read CrashPad as metaporn—where staging sex becomes part of the performance. Affective labour meets ethical spectatorship. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔥 Porn performance ≠ just sex on camera. Latest issue of Porn Studies explores craft, labour & charisma behind adult media stardom. 🎭 Performance, persona, platform, politics, labour, and style. Editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Absolutely. Linda Williams’ impact on the study of pornography, film, and spectatorship is impossible to overstate. Porn Studies was delighted to celebrate her contributions in our recent special dossier, honoring her groundbreaking work and enduring influence!
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
