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East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
Pornography’s impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as audio-visual and online media from an East Asian perspective. It focuses on pornographies made and consumed in and across Japan, Korea, China, and Hong Kong. The chapters examine under-reported East Asian cultures of pornography, not only to uncover phenomena from within this region but also to challenge and fine-tune existing academic research networks and paradigms. This book proposes that the lived experience of producing and consuming various pornographies throughout East Asia may extend, nuance, challenge, or even affirm the dominant Euro-American understandings of pornography that are becoming increasingly axiomatic within pornography studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field of study. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Porn Studies.
1. Introduction—Reflections on researching pornography across Asia: voices from the region
Katrien Jacobs, Thomas Baudinette and Alexandra Hambleton
2. Aspirations for ‘Japanese gay masculinity’: comparing Chinese and Japanese men’s consumption of porn star Koh Masaki
Thomas Baudinette
3. Porn as practice, porn as access: pornography consumption and a ‘third sexual orientation’ in Japan
Elizabeth Miles
4. The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan’s rotten women
Kristine Michelle L. Santos
5. Gold fingers or golden opportunity? Porn stars, sex education, and masculinity in contemporary Japan
Alexandra Hambleton
6. Jemok eopseum: the repurposing of Tumblr for gay South Korean DIY pornography
Shawn Suyong Yi Jones
7. ‘Queering pornography’: situating lesbian identity and sexuality in the pornoscape and sexual-scape of Hong Kong
Sonia Yuk-Ying Wong
8. ‘Good hard fuck’ made in China: a case study of Chinese semiprofessionally produced gay porn
Runze Ding
9. Smouldering pornographies on the Chinese internet
Katrien Jacobs
Biography
Katrien Jacobs is Adjunct Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Research Associate at Ghent University, Belgium. Her work specializes in digital media and sexualities, contemporary art, and activism and can be found at www.katrienjacobs.com
Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Japanese and International Studies in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Languages and Literatures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Dr Baudinette is a cultural anthropologist whose work has explored consumption of popular culture among queer communities in Japan, Mainland China, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Alexandra Hambleton is an Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. Her work focuses on contemporary Japan with a particular interest in media, gender, and sexuality.
