Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

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Index 231 “2 Girls 1 Cup,” 49–55, 60 abject, the, 38–41, 42, 47, 49, 52, 56–57, 130–131, 137–138 abolitionist materials, 109–112, 114–115 Abu Ghraib, 79, 80–81, 85, 106–109, 121–122, 182, 185 adult entertainment: authenticity in, 132–139, 175–176; and generic slippage, 67–68, 73–79, 90–91, 104– 105; and parody; 151–152; versus pornography, 13–14, 57, 109–112, 120–121, 123, 142–143, 182, 185– 186; versus sexually explicit memes, 52–56; written forms of, 11–13 affect: and disaffection; 92–93, 95, 100; and disgust, 42, 44, 46–47, 52–55, 137; generalized forms of, 90–91; in postmodern culture, 88–89; relationship with transgression, 78, 82–86, 143–144; see also intensity Albert, Laura: See LeRoy, JT anti-censorship feminism: See pro-sex feminism anti-pornography feminism: common ground with pro-sex feminism, 25–27; influence of, 117–120; transgression within, 29–31, 33–34; use of sentiment, 112–114; viewpoints of, 21–23 Attwood, Feona, 2, 8–9, 10, 204n1 Atwood, Margaret, 89–91, 92–98, 99–102 authenticity: and anxiety, 149–150, 152–155, 176–177, 178–179; and confession, 148; as a definitional criteria for the pornographic, 59–60, 139, 149, 168–169; and marginality, 162–163; and postmodern culture, 92–94, 97, 129–131, 158–160; and prurience, 175–176; role in adult entertainment, 132–136, 151 authorship, 129, 148, 157–158, 161, 164–165 autobiography: generic instability of, 150–151, 160; and pornographic fiction, 139–140, 143; role of truth in, 139, 148, 159–160; and trauma, 154–155, 179 Badiou, Alain, 31, 45–46, 93–94, 131 Bataille, Georges, 18–19, 27–31, 33, 137–138; see also transgression Baudrillard, Jean, 94–95, 129, 132, 170, 178–179, 180 BDSM, 7–8, 74–75 Bersani, Leo: on intensity, 64, 72, 122, 154 on the redemptive project of sex, 25–26; with Ulysse Dutoite, 85, 110 232 Index bodily fluids, 43, 137–138 body genres, the, 74–75, 137, 151 Butler, Judith, 108, 198n5 class, 3, 14, 17, 78, 162–163; see also distaste confession, 139–140, 143, 148–149, 170 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, the, 6–7, 11, 52, 119–120 cynicism, 100, 129–130 disavowal, 34, 94, 145–147 displacement: of affect, 42, 60; of sex within ‘the pornographic,’ 14, 56–57, 73–75, 77–78, 112; within sexuality, 179 disgust: cultural invisibility of, 42–44; in legal discourse, 6–7, 32; and ‘the pornographic,’ 47, 55; and the powers of horror, 40–41, 58–59; reactions of, 50–52, 53, 71, 137–138; see also affect distaste, 77, 82–83, 146, 187 Dworkin, Andrea, 22–23, 28–30, 32–33, 112–114, 117 Embarrassing Bodies, 56–61 Evil Angel, 134–135 execution videos, 81, 90, 93–94, 97–98, 99–100 Extreme Associates, 5–6, 67–68, 78 Foucault, Michel, 4, 42–44, 46, 58, 139, 148–149, 170 Flynt, Larry, 75–76, 78 frenzy of the visible, the, 2, 51–52, 74–75, 122, 138, 152–153 Freud, Sigmund, 71–73, 85 Gag Factor, 80–83, 106 genre, issues of, 13, 67–68, 148, 150–152, 153–154, 159–163 gonzo, 67, 108, 133, 136–137 Hardcore, Max, 5, 143–144 hoaxes, 149–150, 153–155, 157, 165, 176–179 horror: See body genres Hustler: See Flynt, Larry intensity: the body in a state of, 122–123, 131, 137–138, 166; and sexuality, 71–73, 85; theorists of, 63–65; and trauma, 85–86, 154, 179–180 Jacobs, Katrien, 4–5, 78, 88, 103–104 jouissance, 72, 77, 85–86, 137–138, 154, 179, 185 Juffer, Jane, 3, 24 Kendrick, Walter, 6, 11, 71, 118 LeRoy, JT, 126, 149, 157, 160–175, 178 lifestyle pornographies, 187–188 MacKinnon, Catherine A., 23, 33, 112, 119, 198n9 Marcus, Steven, 10 memes, 50, 52–54 misery porn, 139, 142–147, 152, 154, 162–163, 166–168, 175–176 Now That’s Fucked Up, 103–105 obscenity: definitions of, 91, 122–123; and the Obscene Publications Act 1959, 12, 181–182; prosecutions for, 5–6, 12, 67–68, 104, 119 Oryx and Crake: See Atwood, Margaret O’Toole, Laurence, 54, 68–69, 77, 181–182, 184 Paasonen, Susanna, 3–5, 11–12, 18, 52–53, 143, 146; with Kaarina Nikunen, and Laura Saarenmaa, 3 233 Index paroxysms, 52, 55, 74, 137 Pasquinelli, Matteo, 9–10, 81...