Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visual Culture, Commodification, We Exist

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Pornography, technology and intimacy: multiple platforms of delivery allow for greater market penetration, way in which porn offers a business model for marketizing internet. Communication technology (ict: shifts to goals of greater realism -real core, how porn shapes sex cultures, commercial genre concerned with explicit representation of human sexuality. Cyber or internet porn: promises, democratization of porn, greater diversity and variety, problems, actual practices are often much more mundane, overall effect of cyber porn is seen as highly efficient commercial homogenization of desire. Just chillen on a normal day and pornographic ties come in: advertising, mainstreaming of porn aesthetic and subject matter, porn chic not longer sexually or socially transgressive. Post modern porn-chic: brian mcnair coined the term porn-chic, questions meaning of perverse pleasure, sexual conversations in public sphere, commodification of sex, democratizing, links porn-chic to wider fascination with sexuality.