Clarissa Smith

In Birmingham June 25th? Join us for the launch of Sexualised Masculinity by John Mercer and Clarissa Smith at BCU. Panel, Q&A, drinks. Masculinity, sex & digital culture in sharp focus.
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The good transsexual? The Buck Angel dilemmas The often-told Buck Angel bio is that of a female-to-male transsexual who became a ground-breaking and award-winning porn star, documentary producer, sex educator, commentator, dating site host, an...

⚡ Fallen icon? Lauren Rosewarne interrogates Buck Angel’s legacy—visibility, respectability, and generational breaks in trans porn.
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The trouble with tagging: a queer porn company tussles to find the right words While major media outlets repost Pornhub’s popular search terms and ‘debate’ trans rights, the discussions among queer porn producers about tagging and gender are more nuanced. Tags (descriptive ke...

🔖 Tags and taxonomies: @jizlee.bsky.social & Kriss Lowrance explore the ethics of metadata.
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(Inside) An American in Tokyo: June Lovejoy as the adult video outsider Twenty-seven-year-old American-born June Lovejoy has become a popular performer in the Japanese adult video industry after leaving an unsatisfying and exploitative corporate job in favour of what t...

🗾 Bilingual porn celebrity: Alexandra Hambleton follows June Lovejoy’s persona in Japan—market outsider, affective insider.
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Bisexuality and the solidarity stardom of Judy Coleman In the Los Angeles grassroots gay adult film scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, stardom was often inseparable from community engagement and political action. Judy Coleman was a key star in th...

🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual stardom in gay porn: Finlay Freibert recovers Judy Coleman’s 60s/70s career as solidarity, not anomaly.
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S.I.R. Video: love letters to 1990s lesbian-queer San Francisco This article examines 1990s lesbian-queer San Francisco as told through the porn archive of S.I.R. Video and its founders, Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano. The creative masterminds behind the ground...

📼 Queer archives: Lynn Comella uncovers lesbian-queer porn in 1990s SF—erotic filmmaking as scene, intimacy, and resistance.
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Performance and fetishism in digital pornography While performance in pornography bears comparison with performance in mainstream cinema, there are significant differences. Viewers respond to a mainstream actor’s ability to convey emotional and p...

👅 Loops, licks, gasps: Peter Lehman explores the micro-gestures of digital fetish porn—genre anchored by fragments, not plot.
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History gone soft: performing the scandalous 1920s in Hollywood Babylon Adapted (without permission) from Kenneth Anger’s notorious book about early Hollywood scandals, the 1972 sexploitation version of Hollywood Babylon is a quasi-documentary that alternates between p...

📽️ Pastiche & parody: David Church dissects Hollywood Babylon (1972) as softcore celebrity drag—awkward reenactment as critique.
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Ginger snaps back: generic permutations of porn performance within the films of Ginger Lynn Allen Chad Ferrin’s 2023 film Pig Killer provides a dramatization of Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton, who murdered 49 women during the 1980s and 1990s. The film is notable for unnerving performances by cult actor...

👹 Horror, porn, hybrid stardom: Xavier Mendik follows Ginger Lynn Allen’s monster femininity across genres, timelines, and myths.
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‘Girls and corpses’: the ‘tattoo-titted freakdom’ of Bonnie Rotten Bonnie Rotten's onscreen persona drew equally on punk-inspired and horror iconographies; a conjunctural aesthetic epitomised in the ornate spider-web pattern tattoos that adorn her breasts. Other d...

🖤 Tattoo-titted freakdom: James Anderson reads Bonnie Rotten’s body as punk refusal—a spectacle of anti-glam, all attitude.
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When did ‘the true king of hardcore’ start to cry? Investigating Rocco Siffredi’s stardom With a career in the adult industry spanning 40 years, Rocco Siffredi is undoubtedly one of the most important male porn stars to date. Despite his undoubted importance, however, he has not been th...

🇮🇹 Hardcore as heritage: Giovanna Maina & Federico Zecca frame Rocco Siffredi’s career as myth-making masculinity—between porn sets & Italian TV.
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Pure cheek: the Ben Dover story This article explores the career of British porn performer and producer Lindsay Honey, more commonly known as Ben Dover. Arguably Britain’s most well-known pornographer, Honey’s career is significa...

📼 From VHS to virality: Oliver Carter traces Ben Dover’s decades-long pivot from underground illegality to digital branding.
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Hit like, please subscribe: OnlyFans, camming, and new directions in Indian erotic performance cultures This article explores camming practices in India where performers like Oasi Das utilize platforms such as Instagram to invite subscription to their OnlyFans profiles. Focusing on the intersection b...

🌏 Erotic economies in India: Meet Oasi Das—OnlyFans, Instagram, & intimacy work as multitasking porn stardom in a global South context by Darshana Sreedhar Mini & Anirban Kapil Baishya.
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Our friends at @calltoactivism.bsky.social dug up a video of Donald tRump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” He likely would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it. 😉

Producing BDSM content on porn platforms: a day in the life of Countess Diamond This article explores the case of Countess Diamond, a BDSM adult content creator who wears the hats of both producer and performer within the gig economy where adult content creators distribute por...

💻 Platformed kink: Rebecca Rose Nocella’s ethnography of Countess Diamond reveals the hustle behind BDSM stardom under algorithmic capitalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sean Cody’s Curtis and amateur performance in reality porn Amateur pornography has often been defined negatively in relationship to its professional counterpart; featuring average-looking people, awkward or disengaged performances, and poorly recorded vide...

🎞️ Amateur, on repeat: Daniel Laurin shows how Curtis’s familiar presence on Sean Cody is crafted spontaneity—looped gestures as persona.
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François Sagat: becoming a meta porn star François Sagat belongs to the most recognizable and most commented on porn stars of the 21st century, and he gained fame in and out of porn. From the beginning, in his porn work Sagat demonstrated ...

💪 Queer masculinity stylised: Peter Rehberg dives into Sagat’s blend of gonzo and gallery—porno aesthetics as art-world muscle.
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Every day’s a good day to do porn! Ethan Hethcote’s transition from YouTube ingenue to OnlyFans harlot This essay considers whether too much paratext can interfere with pornographic fantasy. While Ethan Hethcote's transition from G-rated YouTube celebrity to X-rated OnlyFans performer was supposed t...

📱 From YouTube to OnlyFans: Brandon Arroyo reads Ethan Hethcote’s brand shift as narrative overload—where paratext eclipses performance.
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Eroticizing failure: the legacy of porn star Brooke Van Buuren Although Brooke Van Buuren’s career in pornography lasted only about six months, she has retained a certain degree of renown because of a short clip where she gagged and coughed out semen that she ...

🤢 Gag reflex as fame? James K Beggan tracks how Brooke Van Buuren’s “failure” becomes fetish, erotics of abjection as porn notoriety.
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Tomorrow sex will be rough again: on Dana Vespoli’s Consent This article focuses on Dana Vespoli’s representation of consent in porn, and especially on the mise-en-scène of the relationship between pleasure and agreement in her 2019 Evil Angel work entitled...

🩸 Menstrual blood, awkwardness, unscripted intimacy—Laura Sofia Torre’s take on Consent challenges the smooth polish of feminist porn.
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‘The genuine personality of our favorite stars’: Ariel Rebel, performative authenticity, and para-social interaction In this article, I assess French-Canadian and Métis star Ariel Rebel's performance in the docu-porn Threesome (2015). There, Rebel details her biography, then a ménage à trois experience. This lead...

💻 Docu-porn and digital persona: Troy Michael Bordun explores Threesome and Ariel Rebel’s parasocial craft—intimacy built on performance, not spontaneity.
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Shine Louise Houston and the metapornographic queering of voyeurism This article examines the work of filmmaker-producer Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink and White Productions and director of the lesbian porn classic The Crash Pad, which spawned an eponymous, ...

🎥 Queering the camera: Misha Kavka & Tobias Kunz read CrashPad as metaporn—where staging sex becomes part of the performance. Affective labour meets ethical spectatorship.
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Proud to have co-edited this special issue of Porn Studies on Stardom at the Margins.
It’s a bold, wide-ranging collection that treats porn performance as craft, labour, persona, and politics.
So much insight, so many brilliant contributors.
Read it!

Porn Studies Body, Genre, Apparatus: Re-reading Linda Williams on Pornography. Volume 11, Issue 2 of Porn Studies

Linda Williams changed how we see, think, and argue about pornography, desire, and the moving image. Hard Core was the first serious study of porn as film. Porn Studies recently published a special dossier on her contributions to the field: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1....

Porn Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 of Porn Studies

🔥 Porn Studies turns 10! 🔥

A decade of critical conversations with Vol. 11, No. 4—our bumper 10th-anniversary issue is finally out! Packed with articles, interviews, and roundtables, this edition reflects on ten years of Porn Studies!

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Let's do it!

🚨 New Book Alert! 🚨

Thrilled that Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture, co-authored with John Mercer, is out. 📖✨

Eroticisation of the male body reshaping ideas of gender, sexuality, and representation.

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