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Popularity these genres have, but arbiters of cultural status still tend to value "spiritual" over "bodily" qualities, and hence relegate porn and the rest to an inferior cultural position. The fact that porn, like weepies, thrillers and low comedy, is realized in/through the body has given it low status in our culture.
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(Maybe the feminist debate means that I can't use the word like this - but I don't want to fall for the trap of substituting the word erotica. But I'd like all the same to hang on to a wider notion of sexual representation, and still use the word pornography precisely because of its disreputable, carnal associations. in stressing gay porn's use of socially inferior - young, black - men in "feminine" positions, whereas similarity between partners is more often the case) or out of date, her rage at what so much of porn consists of is fully justified, and especially so because she effectively defines porn as that which is degrading and outrageous. Although in relation to gay porn, Dworkin is in some respects inaccurate (e.g. Although feeling closer to some of those feminist articles that take issue with this hard line anti-porn position, I do not feel as out of sympathy with, say, Andrea Dworkin's work as do many people, and especially gay men, that I know. Current feminist critiques of pornography rightly stress the degradation of women that characterizes so much heterosexual porn, and these critiques in fact define pornography as woman-degrading representations of sexuality. If one defines porn differently, then the kind of defense of porn as a genre (but emphatically not of most porn that is actually available) that I'm involved with here is not really possible. I'd like to use porn as a neutral term, describing a particular genre. Thus, weepies (melodramas and soap opera) are compared to tragedy or realist drama, thrillers to mystery/ detective stories (based on intellectual, puzzle-solving narratives), low comedy (farce) to high comedy (comedy of manners), and porn to erotica. Like these genres, porn is usually discussed in relation to a similar, but "higher" genre which doesn't have a bodily effect. Like all of these, it is supposed to have an effect that is registered in the spectator's body - s/he weeps, gets goose bumps, rolls about laughing, comes. It is like genres such as the weepie and the thriller, and also low or vulgar comedy. It is not defined (or I am not asking to define it here), like the Western, gangster film or musical, by such aesthetic, textual elements as iconography, structure, style and so on, but by what it produces in the spectator. This definition makes porn film a familiar kind of genre, that is, one that is based on the effect that both producers and audiences know the film is supposed to have. So the definition I'm going to use is that a pornographic film is any film that has as its aim sexual arousal in the spectator. I'm constantly looking for moments of contradiction, instability and give in our culture, the points at which change can be effected, and want to start out with the possibility of finding it in porn as anywhere else. I'm also a socialist who sees porn as capitalist production but does not believe all capitalist cultural production always all the time expresses capitalist ideology. I'm a gay man, who has (unlike women) easy access to porn and can take pleasure in it, but who feels a commitment to the more feminist inflections of gay male politics. I don't mean to imply that I believe in the myth of objectivity, that I start off utterly neutral. Discussion about porn tends to start off by being either for or against all porn and to be caught up in equally dubious libertarian or puritanical ideas.
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I want some definition that is as broadly descriptive as possible. Pornography has recently become a Big Topic in left cultural work, and what I'm going to say needs to be situated in relation to this.įirst, a definition - a working definition, the one I'm going to be working with here, rather than a statement of the correct definition of pornography.
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But before getting on to that, it seems necessary to say a few things by way of introduction. Broadly I'm going to argue that the narrative structure of gay porn is analogous to aspects of the social construction of both male sexuality in general and gay male sexual practice in particular. The main suggestions I'd like to make in this article about gay male pornographic cinema are quite brief and simple. Male Gay Porn: Coming to Terms by Richard Dyer JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1985, 2005