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Quote:There’s porn on television. Porn in magazines. Porn on smartphones. Porn on Twitter. Porn on playing cards. Porn in birthday cards. Porn in Anime. There’s even food porn.

Now there’s a porn academic journal.

The debut issue of Porn Studies, published by Routledge and co-edited by a professor of cultural studies at London’s Middlesex University, was released on Friday. It hails itself as the “first dedicated, international, peer reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic.”

Indeed, the journal teems in critical exploration. Some of the titles:
“Revisiting dirty looks”
“Hard to swallow: Hard-core pornography on screen”
“Pornography, porno, porn: Thoughts on a weedy field”
“Deep tags: Toward a quantitative analysis of online pornography”
“Internationalizing porn studies”
“Porn and sex education, porn as sex education”
Now more than ever, editors Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith say, the sociological and anthropological study of pornography has become essential to the understanding of contemporary society. There’s no doubt: Porn is everywhere, tantalizing, baffling and terrifying the masses. Late last year, three porn actors tested positive for HIV, and the industry was hit with several moratoriums on filming.

Then earlier this month, a 19-year-old college freshman at Duke University confessed she had become a porn star to pay for her college education, igniting a debate over not only the ballooning cost of tuition but also the growing role pornography plays in the culture.

“Porn is becoming an important part of increasing numbers of people’s lives, although what that means to them is something we still know very little about,” said the Porn Studies editors. “The ways that porn is produced and distributed have undergone rapid, radical and incremental change, but much of the popular discussion about those changes is still based on guesswork.”

Translation: There’s a lot of porn today. We don’t know what that means.
Despite the popularity of pornography, there are obstacles to publishing such scholarly work, editors say. For one, some haven’t taken their academic work seriously. “There were attempts to poke fun at the silliness of academic investigations of pornography in keeping with the perennial accusations of the superficiality of media studies, as well as more negative coverage questioning the need for a publication of this kind.”

Indeed, if this quote suggests anything, it’s that one of the greatest challenges facing the quarterly Porn Studies is the contrast between the carnal behavior of pornography and the academic codifications this journal has applied to it.

Still, it’s far from cold scientific inquiry. Some amorous tendencies have crept in. “Porn Studies,” the editors write, “has been a labor of love.”

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Porn studies? I'm torn between being impressed that someone somewhere is trying to seriously study this industry, on the other hand... Seriously?!
Thoughts from the RVF?

Post: #2

What the fuck?

There's no deep thought or hidden meaning in porn. It's just... people having sex. It's not a metaphor for anything.

This looks like "the emperor's new clothes" to me.

Post: #3

I want to see a scientific survey on the best lotion to use on the penis when masturbating .

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Online porn is fundamentally changing sex and masturbation behavior of millions of people around the globe. The availability of it breeds armies of young men who develop erection problems and social anxieties. They become self-complacent with regards to their sexual life and will probably never get laid. The NoFap-movement has raised the awareness for this.

Therefore, it is a reality that needs to be dealt with, especially in scientific circles (psychology, sociology, neurobiology) where people might develop counterstrategies against the negative long-term effects of porn. The issue will stay with us for decades to come, I suppose.

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(03-24-2014 09:10 AM)Jukes Wrote:  I want to see a scientific survey on the best lotion to use on the penis when masturbating .

If you weren't circumcised - you wouldn't need a lotion! :-)

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(03-24-2014 09:17 AM)cardguy Wrote:  

(03-24-2014 09:10 AM)Jukes Wrote:  I want to see a scientific survey on the best lotion to use on the penis when masturbating .

If you weren't circumcised - you wouldn't need a lotion! :-)

I'm circumcised (Thank God, I used to get infections) and I don't need lotion.

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Yeah - I wonder how common the lotion thing is?

I didn't even realise a lot of circumcised guys used lotion to jerk off until I was about 25 - since in the UK everyone is pretty much uncircumcised.

Post: #8

Well, I'm not circumcised and I still find it pleasurable to use some lotion when masturbating. It just makes for a more natural sensation.

Post: #9

Seems like the journal is a way to employ otherwise unemployable women's studies majors.

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(03-24-2014 09:27 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Well, I'm not circumcised and I still find it pleasurable to use some lotion when masturbating. It just makes for a more natural sensation.

Co-sign.

Definitely lotion for left handed masturbation. Right hand masturbation is done dry.

I like to mix it up.

Post: #11

(03-24-2014 09:17 AM)cardguy Wrote:  

(03-24-2014 09:10 AM)Jukes Wrote:  I want to see a scientific survey on the best lotion to use on the penis when masturbating .

If you weren't circumcised - you wouldn't need a lotion! :-)

Lol . Never saw the point of using lotion and I ' m uncircumcised .

Post: #12

This is the end time...We know this, because...Porn studies has been found.

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Here's my proposed course curriculum of study for a freshman "Pornography Studies" major:

1. Lab Work (3 credits): Measuring Sound Waves Produced By Erections

2. Freeing Your Mind: Pornography Is The New Feminism (2 credits)

3. Facials And Consequences (1 credit)

4. Historical Development Of Porn: From the Walls of Pompeii to Southern California (2 credits)

5. Guest Speakers and Veterans of Porn: Marilyn Chambers and Amber Lynn talk about the 1980s to the present.

6. A New Regimen of STD Testing: Fallible Or Not? (1 credit)

7. Circulatory Benefits of the Reverse Cowgirl (2 credits)

8. Ed Meese And the Porn Crisis of the 1980s (1 credit)

9. Guest Speaker: Originator of "Bangbus" talks about reality porn (2 credits)


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Post: #14

It will be hijacked by women studies soon enough. The University of Toronto has a porn archive that sociology and psychology researchers would use. But lately it's been the women studies people whom are creeping in trying to "study" porn. The effects on the male mind it has won't be studied and soon enough the women studies groups will turn the field into a joke that looks at how there isn't enough clown or transgendered porn options.

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(03-24-2014 12:28 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  Here's my proposed course curriculum of study for a freshman "Pornography Studies" major:

1. Lab Work (3 credits): Measuring Sound Waves Produced By Erections

2. Freeing Your Mind: Pornography Is The New Feminism (2 credits)

3. Facials And Consequences (1 credit)

4. Historical Development Of Porn: From the Walls of Pompeii to Southern California (2 credits)

5. Guest Speakers and Veterans of Porn: Marilyn Chambers and Amber Lynn talk about the 1980s to the present.

6. A New Regimen of STD Testing: Fallible Or Not? (1 credit)

7. Circulatory Benefits of the Reverse Cowgirl (2 credits)

8. Ed Meese And the Porn Crisis of the 1980s (1 credit)

9. Guest Speaker: Originator of "Bangbus" talks about reality porn (2 credits)


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If we got a porn producer writing for ROK, that'd actually be pretty interesting.