{{Short description|Pornography focusing on queer themes}} {{Multiple issues| {{Essay-like|date=August 2019}} {{Original research|date=August 2019}} }} '''Queer pornography''' depicts performers with various [[gender]] identities and [[sexual orientation]]s interacting and exploring genres of desire and pleasure in unique ways. These conveyed interactions distinctively seek to challenge the conventional modes of portraying and experiencing sexually explicit content.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Koller|first=Veronika|date=2015-01-01|title=The subversive potential of queer pornography: A systemic-functional analysis of a written online text|journal=Journal of Language and Sexuality|language=en|volume=4|issue=2|pages=254–271|doi=10.1075/jls.4.2.04kol|issn=2211-3770|url=http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/75850/1/JLS_article_2015.pdf}}</ref> Scholar Ingrid Ryberg additionally includes two main objectives of queer pornography in her definition as "interrogating and troubling gender and sexual categories and aiming at sexual arousal."<ref name=":2">{{Cite thesis |last=Ingrid|first=Ryberg|date=2012-01-01|title=Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography|url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:477159}}</ref>
Queer porn works to have authentic representations with respect to the sexual orientations, [[gender identities]] and desires of the performers in it.<ref name="seise">{{cite journal|last=Seise|first=Cherie|date=April 2010|title=Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation|url=http://freireproject.org/wp-content/journals/sprinkle/Sprinkle_vol3.pdf|journal=Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies|volume=3|pages=19–29|access-date=May 8, 2013|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808174144/http://freireproject.org/wp-content/journals/sprinkle/Sprinkle_vol3.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It differs from [[heterosexual]], [[Gay pornography|gay]], or [[lesbian pornography]], because queer porn will often be a partnering of performers outside traditional pornographic categories.<ref name="seise" /> Gay porn falls into a similar situation as heterosexual porn by putting an emphasis on androcentric imagery of pleasure, as scholar [[Richard Dyer]] argues, and often glorifies the homonormative, masculine body-type and behavior. To appear as inclusive, gay porn will exotify differences.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Columbia Reader: On lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics|last=Dyer|first=Richard|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1999|editor-last=Gross|editor-first=Larry|location=New York|pages=479–485|chapter=Coming to Terms: Gay Pornography}}</ref> Performers' bodies in queer pornography are key to providing a difference between it and other categories of pornography.<ref>Jacobs, Katrien, Marije Janssen, and matteo Pasquinelli. ''C’lickme : A Netporn Studies Reader''. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. Print.</ref> For example, a [[DVD]] may have one scene which shows a [[transgender]] [[lesbian]] with a [[cisgender]] femme-identified queer woman, while the next scene may showcase two transgender queer-identified men.<ref name="seise" />
The genre of queer pornography as defined above is relatively recent and has been popularized and distributed by adult film companies such as [[Pink and White Productions]], Trouble Films, Real Queer Productions among others. While porn is not limited to adult cinema and can exist in the context of a variety of media such as queer written pornography, the currently produced queer porn is mostly in the form of video.
Some prominent queer producers include [[Shine Louise Houston]], Chelsea Poe, and [[April Flores]] who attempt to challenge the filming methods within the [[porn industry]]. Typically within the Porn Industry, the producer and director have the majority of control over how each scene will be performed, who is showcased in each set, and creating a differential of performers’ salaries based on their popularity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McKee|first=Alan|date=2016-04-02|title=Pornography as a creative industry: challenging the exceptionalist approach to pornography|journal=Porn Studies|volume=3|issue=2|pages=107–119|doi=10.1080/23268743.2015.1065202|issn=2326-8743|hdl=10453/41441|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Queer pornography counters these practices by actively engaging performers in the creations of scenes allowing them to form more organically as a collaboration with a more horizontal access of control rather than a hierarchically vertical system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goldengatexpress.org/2015/10/20/the-underside-of-the-porn-industry/|title=The underside of the porn industry|last=Wright|first=Cody|date=2015-10-20|website=Golden Gate Xpress|access-date=2017-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dar-dowling/shine-louise-houston-jiz-_b_7595976.html|title=Shine Louise Houston & Jiz Lee: Crowdfunding Queer Porn Their Way.…|last=Dowling|first=Dar|date=2015-06-18|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-29}}</ref>
Queer porn similarly celebrates ejaculation but with some signification differences to conventional porn. Unlike in the mainstream industry, the performer does not have a financial bonus for providing such a "money shot." Directors only encourage performers to perform an orgasm if/when the actors feel like it.<ref name=":0" /> Since the [[money shot]] in conventional porn relies of visibility for the camera, it necessarily centers on showing external ejaculation of the penis as the ultimate climax. This reflects attention back to the male centered gaze and a representative instance of phallic power and pleasure.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hard core : power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible"|last=Linda|first=Williams|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520219434|oclc=838864947|date=1999-04-27}}</ref> Queer porn attempts to broaden such a delineation of phallic centered climax and the pornographic production.
== Discourses on queer pornography == Queer pornography has been attracting academic attention since the 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pinkwhite.biz/PWWP/superfreaky-queerness-feminism-and-aesthetics-in-queer-pornography/|title=Superfreaky: Queerness, Feminism, and Aesthetics in Queer Pornography {{!}} Pink & White Productions|website=pinkwhite.biz|date=14 June 2009|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The feminist porn book : the politics of producing pleasure|last=Tristan.|first=Taormino|date=2013-01-01|publisher=The Feminist Press|isbn=9781558618183|oclc=963852414}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Porn.com : making sense of online pornography|last=Feona.|first=Attwood|date=2010-01-01|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9781433102073|oclc=942285669}}</ref> A challenge within queer pornography is that some labeled queer porn may depict scenarios that could be part of any heterosexual mainstream pornographic film. This follows academic Niels van Doorn's concept of the “pornoscript,” eroticizing heterosexual difference and focusing on the male subject position.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=van Doorn|first=Niels|date=2010-11-01|title=Keeping it Real: User-Generated Pornography, Gender Reification, and Visual Pleasure|journal=Convergence|language=en|volume=16|issue=4|pages=411–430|doi=10.1177/1354856510375144|s2cid=220774269 |issn=1354-8565}}</ref> For example, a scene from Real Queer Productions's ''Fluid'' depicts a threesome with elements of submissions and dominance, rough vaginal and anal penetration, and external male ejaculation. The film's adherence to the pornographic conventions is predictable and serialized. However, further inspection into queer porn that appears like [[Heteronormativity|heteronormative]] pornography reveals particular parody of serial strategy to expose [[Gender Construction|gender construction]] within most conventional pornography.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure|author=Schaschek, Sarah|isbn=9781137363121|oclc=880439054|date = 2013-12-05|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US }}</ref> This process creates a queer version of the model of "subversive repetition" theorized by academic [[Judith Butler]]. Drawing particular attention to such a facet through imitation permits its productive act of deconstruction. Thus, queer pornography can disassemble the pornographic norm by mimicking it.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
Additionally, queer pornography clearly reveals the imitative process of gender identification when introducing the figure of the transgender man. Compared to [[Trans woman|trans women]] depicted across other types of pornography, [[Trans man|trans men]] appear significantly in [[Feminist pornography|feminist]] and queer pornography.<ref name=":0" />
Films of queer pornography make "deviant" sexualities more visible by simultaneously starting a process of their [[normalization (sociology)|normalization]]. So, in order to avoid creating a new kind of norm, queer pornography constantly works along the edge of the [[Gender systems|gender system]]. For example, when strap-on dildos made their appearance in queer pornography leaving viewers guessing whether they were faced with a "real" penis or a dildo, they soon became a common sight. While these strap-on dildos originally offered new ways of thinking about gender and sexuality, their ubiquitous use risked losing their subversive power.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />
As scholar Sarah Schaschek writes, “If heterosexual pornography accentuates clearly defined identity categories such as class, age, ethnicity, sexuality, or gender, queer films tend to reveal the high degree of stylization behind these identities”.<ref name=":0" />
== Productions == * ''[[Dirty Diaries]]'' * [[Pink and White Productions]] * Real Queer Productions * Trouble Films * AORTA films
== Artists == {{Portal|Erotica and pornography|LGBTQ }} * [[Dylan Ryan]] * [[Jiz Lee]] * [[Shine Louise Houston]] * [[Buck Angel]] * [[April Flores]] * [[Bianca Stone]] * [[Madison Young]] * [[Tristan Taormino]] * [[Erika Lust]] * [[Petra Joy]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * Coleman, L., & Held, J. M. (Eds.). (2016). ''The Philosophy of Pornography: Contemporary Perspectives'' (Reprint edition). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. * {{cite journal|title=Academic Cult Erotica: Fluid Beings or a Cubicle of Our Own?|journal=Cinema Journal|year=2007|first=Katrien|last=Jacobs|volume=46|issue=4|doi=10.1353/cj.2007.0037 |pages=126–129|s2cid=144564473 }} * {{cite journal|title=Queer Shuttling: Korea-Manila-New York|journal=GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies|first=Joel|last=David|volume=12|issue=4|pages=614–617|year=2006|doi=10.1215/10642684-12-4-614|s2cid=143787153}} * Ingraham, N. (2013). Queering pornography through qualitative methods. ''International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches'', ''7''(2), 218–226. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5172/mra.2013.7.2.218</nowiki> * Lee, J. (Ed.). (2015). ''Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy''. Berkeley, CA: ThreeL Media. * {{cite journal|last=Seise|first=Cherie|date=April 2010|title=Fucking Utopia: Queer Porn and Queer Liberation|url=http://freireproject.org/wp-content/journals/sprinkle/Sprinkle_vol3.pdf|journal=Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies|volume=3|pages=19–29|access-date=May 8, 2013|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808174144/http://freireproject.org/wp-content/journals/sprinkle/Sprinkle_vol3.pdf|url-status=dead}} * Mason-Grant, J. (2004). ''Pornography Embodied: From Speech to Sexual Practice''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. * Morris, P., & Paasonen, S. (2014). Risk and Utopia: A Dialogue on Pornography. ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', ''20''(3), 215–239. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422656</nowiki> * Rodriguez, J. M. (2011). Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies. ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', ''17''(2–3), 331–348. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1163427</nowiki> * Ziv, A. (2015). ''Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography'' (Reprint edition). SUNY Press.
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