Teaching porn

B. McNair

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Abstract

This article gives an account of my experiences as a student and teacher of pornography in the UK university context. From my time as a student at Glasgow University in the late 1970s, to my classes on sexual transgression at Strathclyde in the 2000s, I trace changing attitudes to the pornographic, against the background of changing political and technological environments. The article considers the pedagogy of porn against the backdrop of pro- and anti-porn feminism, the rise of gay rights, and the impact of the internet. Under these influences, and over a period of three decades, pornography was destigmatized and redefined in a variety of contexts, from the irony of lad culture to the postmodern humour of the Graham Norton Show and the pro-porn feminism of the post-Madonna era.
LanguageEnglish
Pages558-567
Number of pages9
JournalSexualities
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2009

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Keywords

  • 1970s-1990s
  • ethics
  • feminism
  • pedagogy
  • pornography

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McNair, B. / Teaching porn. In: Sexualities. 2009 ; Vol. 12, No. 5. pp. 558-567.
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