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Clarissa Smith

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Professor, Northumbria University; Co-Editor Porn Studies #pstudies; #pornstudies; #sextech; #sexualities; #mascnet; #digitalintimacies

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Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · May 22

In Birmingham June 25th? Join us for the launch of Sexualised Masculinity by John Mercer and Clarissa Smith at BCU. Panel, Q&A, drinks. Masculinity, sex & digital culture in sharp focus.
📘 Free OA book: tinyurl.com/yn694erx
🎟️ Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/5xwxsr35

Sexualised Masculinity | Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture |

Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture explores evolving portrayals of masculinity in contemporary media, focusing on the increasing

Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · May 14

Proud to have co-edited this special issue of Porn Studies on Stardom at the Margins.
It’s a bold, wide-ranging collection that treats porn performance as craft, labour, persona, and politics.
So much insight, so many brilliant contributors.
Read it!

pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🔥 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....

Stardom at the margins: performing porn celebrity

Published in Porn Studies (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2025)

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

⚡ Fallen icon? Lauren Rosewarne interrogates Buck Angel’s legacy—visibility, respectability, and generational breaks in trans porn.
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The good transsexual? The Buck Angel dilemmas

The often-told Buck Angel bio is that of a female-to-male transsexual who became a ground-breaking and award-winning porn star, documentary producer, sex educator, commentator, dating site host, an...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🔖 Tags and taxonomies: @jizlee.bsky.social & Kriss Lowrance explore the ethics of metadata.
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The trouble with tagging: a queer porn company tussles to find the right words

While major media outlets repost Pornhub’s popular search terms and ‘debate’ trans rights, the discussions among queer porn producers about tagging and gender are more nuanced. Tags (descriptive ke...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🗾 Bilingual porn celebrity: Alexandra Hambleton follows June Lovejoy’s persona in Japan—market outsider, affective insider.
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(Inside) An American in Tokyo: June Lovejoy as the adult video outsider

Twenty-seven-year-old American-born June Lovejoy has become a popular performer in the Japanese adult video industry after leaving an unsatisfying and exploitative corporate job in favour of what t...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual stardom in gay porn: Finlay Freibert recovers Judy Coleman’s 60s/70s career as solidarity, not anomaly.
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Bisexuality and the solidarity stardom of Judy Coleman

In the Los Angeles grassroots gay adult film scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, stardom was often inseparable from community engagement and political action. Judy Coleman was a key star in th...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

📼 Queer archives: Lynn Comella uncovers lesbian-queer porn in 1990s SF—erotic filmmaking as scene, intimacy, and resistance.
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S.I.R. Video: love letters to 1990s lesbian-queer San Francisco

This article examines 1990s lesbian-queer San Francisco as told through the porn archive of S.I.R. Video and its founders, Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano. The creative masterminds behind the ground...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

👅 Loops, licks, gasps: Peter Lehman explores the micro-gestures of digital fetish porn—genre anchored by fragments, not plot.
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Performance and fetishism in digital pornography

While performance in pornography bears comparison with performance in mainstream cinema, there are significant differences. Viewers respond to a mainstream actor’s ability to convey emotional and p...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

📽️ Pastiche & parody: David Church dissects Hollywood Babylon (1972) as softcore celebrity drag—awkward reenactment as critique.
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History gone soft: performing the scandalous 1920s in Hollywood Babylon

Adapted (without permission) from Kenneth Anger’s notorious book about early Hollywood scandals, the 1972 sexploitation version of Hollywood Babylon is a quasi-documentary that alternates between p...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

👹 Horror, porn, hybrid stardom: Xavier Mendik follows Ginger Lynn Allen’s monster femininity across genres, timelines, and myths.
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Ginger snaps back: generic permutations of porn performance within the films of Ginger Lynn Allen

Chad Ferrin’s 2023 film Pig Killer provides a dramatization of Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton, who murdered 49 women during the 1980s and 1990s. The film is notable for unnerving performances by cult actor...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🖤 Tattoo-titted freakdom: James Anderson reads Bonnie Rotten’s body as punk refusal—a spectacle of anti-glam, all attitude.
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‘Girls and corpses’: the ‘tattoo-titted freakdom’ of Bonnie Rotten

Bonnie Rotten's onscreen persona drew equally on punk-inspired and horror iconographies; a conjunctural aesthetic epitomised in the ornate spider-web pattern tattoos that adorn her breasts. Other d...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🇮🇹 Hardcore as heritage: Giovanna Maina & Federico Zecca frame Rocco Siffredi’s career as myth-making masculinity—between porn sets & Italian TV.
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When did ‘the true king of hardcore’ start to cry? Investigating Rocco Siffredi’s stardom

With a career in the adult industry spanning 40 years, Rocco Siffredi is undoubtedly one of the most important male porn stars to date. Despite his undoubted importance, however, he has not been th...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

📼 From VHS to virality: Oliver Carter traces Ben Dover’s decades-long pivot from underground illegality to digital branding.
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Pure cheek: the Ben Dover story

This article explores the career of British porn performer and producer Lindsay Honey, more commonly known as Ben Dover. Arguably Britain’s most well-known pornographer, Honey’s career is significa...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🌏 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.
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Hit like, please subscribe: OnlyFans, camming, and new directions in Indian erotic performance cultures

This article explores camming practices in India where performers like Oasi Das utilize platforms such as Instagram to invite subscription to their OnlyFans profiles. Focusing on the intersection b...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

💻 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....

Producing BDSM content on porn platforms: a day in the life of Countess Diamond

This article explores the case of Countess Diamond, a BDSM adult content creator who wears the hats of both producer and performer within the gig economy where adult content creators distribute por...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🎞️ Amateur, on repeat: Daniel Laurin shows how Curtis’s familiar presence on Sean Cody is crafted spontaneity—looped gestures as persona.
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Sean Cody’s Curtis and amateur performance in reality porn

Amateur pornography has often been defined negatively in relationship to its professional counterpart; featuring average-looking people, awkward or disengaged performances, and poorly recorded vide...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

💪 Queer masculinity stylised: Peter Rehberg dives into Sagat’s blend of gonzo and gallery—porno aesthetics as art-world muscle.
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François Sagat: becoming a meta porn star

François Sagat belongs to the most recognizable and most commented on porn stars of the 21st century, and he gained fame in and out of porn. From the beginning, in his porn work Sagat demonstrated ...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

📱 From YouTube to OnlyFans: Brandon Arroyo reads Ethan Hethcote’s brand shift as narrative overload—where paratext eclipses performance.
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Every day’s a good day to do porn! Ethan Hethcote’s transition from YouTube ingenue to OnlyFans harlot

This essay considers whether too much paratext can interfere with pornographic fantasy. While Ethan Hethcote's transition from G-rated YouTube celebrity to X-rated OnlyFans performer was supposed t...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🤢 Gag reflex as fame? James K Beggan tracks how Brooke Van Buuren’s “failure” becomes fetish, erotics of abjection as porn notoriety.
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Eroticizing failure: the legacy of porn star Brooke Van Buuren

Although Brooke Van Buuren’s career in pornography lasted only about six months, she has retained a certain degree of renown because of a short clip where she gagged and coughed out semen that she ...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🩸 Menstrual blood, awkwardness, unscripted intimacy—Laura Sofia Torre’s take on Consent challenges the smooth polish of feminist porn.
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Tomorrow sex will be rough again: on Dana Vespoli’s Consent

This article focuses on Dana Vespoli’s representation of consent in porn, and especially on the mise-en-scène of the relationship between pleasure and agreement in her 2019 Evil Angel work entitled...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

💻 Docu-porn and digital persona: Troy Michael Bordun explores Threesome and Ariel Rebel’s parasocial craft—intimacy built on performance, not spontaneity.
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‘The genuine personality of our favorite stars’: Ariel Rebel, performative authenticity, and para-social interaction

In this article, I assess French-Canadian and Métis star Ariel Rebel's performance in the docu-porn Threesome (2015). There, Rebel details her biography, then a ménage à trois experience. This lead...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🎥 Queering the camera: Misha Kavka & Tobias Kunz read CrashPad as metaporn—where staging sex becomes part of the performance. Affective labour meets ethical spectatorship.
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Shine Louise Houston and the metapornographic queering of voyeurism

This article examines the work of filmmaker-producer Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink and White Productions and director of the lesbian porn classic The Crash Pad, which spawned an eponymous, ...

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · May 14

🔥 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....

Stardom at the margins: performing porn celebrity

Published in Porn Studies (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

Reposted by Clarissa Smith

CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · May 13

EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · Mar 16

Linda Williams changed how we see, think, and argue about pornography, desire, and the moving image. Hard Core was the first serious study of porn as film. Porn Studies recently published a special dossier on her contributions to the field: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1....

Body, Genre, Apparatus: Re-reading Linda Williams on Pornography. Volume 11, Issue 2 of Porn Studies

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pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social · Feb 28

🔥 Porn Studies turns 10! 🔥

A decade of critical conversations with Vol. 11, No. 4—our bumper 10th-anniversary issue is finally out! Packed with articles, interviews, and roundtables, this edition reflects on ten years of Porn Studies!

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Volume 11, Issue 4 of Porn Studies

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Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · Feb 21

Let's do it!

Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨 New Book Alert! 🚨

Thrilled that Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture, co-authored with John Mercer, is out. 📖✨

Eroticisation of the male body reshaping ideas of gender, sexuality, and representation.

#Masculinity #MediaStudies #Gender #Sexuality #NewBook