...Cassius Adair This essay argues that certain print pornography featuring “crossdresser,” “transvestite,” and “transsexual” subjects was, counterintuitively, part of a distributed information and care network by and for US transfeminine people between the 1970s and 1990s. While this genre...

..., and femininity, that legitimize socially taboo technologies. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 expos feminism pornography technology wellness In the fall of 2018, the Consumer Technology Association honored a sex toy company with an Innovation Award—and then rescinded...

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...Whitney Strub During the 1980s US feminist sex wars, pornography edited its own history, leaving a distorted record both less problematic and less queer than scholars have yet recognized. Academic inquiry into pornography coincided with home-video boom years, and research often took place in adult...

...Laura Helen Marks Laura Kipnis's 1996 book Bound and Gagged adopts this media studies approach and offers an analysis of the complex pleasures of a variety of mainstream and marginal pornographies, including Hustler magazine, classified ads, and fat porn. 6 Kipnis provides a much-needed...

... place—although he also does not require resistance or subversion in order to justify the pleasures of bottomhood. Beyond reconsidering narratives of sexuality in mainstream representations, Shimizu also addresses the more challenging problem of Asian women in hard-core pornography and other sexually...