” Too Dark, Too Hairy, Too Much!”: Representations of Arab Men and” Arabness” In Contemporary Gay Male Pornography (M.A Thesis)
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Les études universitaires sur la pornographie dérangent la chroniqueuse Margaret Wente (Globe and Mail)

Porn studies is hot. I’m bothered

Margaret Wente

Porn Studies, a brand-new academic journal that made its much-anticipated debut online this week. It is published by a famed scholarly imprint and fills a valuable niche with its rigorous critical analysis of people watching other people having dirty sex.

In the ivory towers of academe, pornography is smoking hot. A vast and growing body of scholarly books, papers, conferences and dissertations are devoted to the topic. Next weekend, the University of Toronto hosts its second annual Feminist Porn Awards and Conference, which will be stacked with leading scholars, cultural critics, activists, performers and producers from all over. A highlight will be the gala celebration of the Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards, which have been “celebrating feminist smut for eight sexy years.”

Also, porn is a career builder. If you want to shine in academia, you have to break new ground. (For example, Concordia’s Evangelos Tziallas, an up-and-comer who is on the editorial board of Porn Studies, is an expert in the horror sub-genre known as “torture porn.” )