In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably, as these paradigms collide, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex, work, and capitalism.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cinematic Intimacies
- Introduction: Democratizing Pornography
- Part I. Porn Cultures
- Pornocamp
- 1. Guerrilla Porn: Motivations and Interventions
- Getting Our Hands Wet
- 2. Imagining Alternatives: Production Values and Ethics
- Part II. Regulatory Fantasies
- What Happened to Our Squirt?
- 3. Criminal Intimacies: Regulatory Trends and Transgressions
- Diversity Washing
- 4. #NSFW: Online Privatization, Sanitization, and Gentrification
- Part III. The Hustle
- SuicideGirls
- 5. Manufacturing Authenticity: Expression, Identity, and Labor
- Green, Organic Porn
- 6. Fair Trade Porn: Marketing, Respectability, and Ethical Consumption
- Part IV. Tensions
- Your Stigma, Your Labor
- 7. Good Porn: Stigma, Respectability, and Diversity Politics
- COVID-Safe Pornography
- 8. Whore Data: Technology, Design, and Carceral Surveillance
- Birth Preparation
- Conclusion: Indie Provocations
- References
- Index
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