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Adam Baran, producer of CIRCUS OF BOOKS from 2020-05-23T15:17:25
A lot of time is spent on this podcast defending the multitude of roles that pornography plays in people’s lives. We say, it’s not a moral scourge, it’s not an enemy of feminis...
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John Mercer from 2020-04-23T21:09:36
I think it’s fair to say that most academics are guilty of using particular words on their essays and books that are generally understood by all, yet we rarely take the time to flesh out the def...
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Porn Meets Academia: featuring Jiz Lee&Madita Oeming from 2020-01-23T20:10:59
This episode is a testament to the generosity and the collaborative nature of the pornography studies community. When I was browsing Twitter one day, I saw that a previous guest on the show, Listen
Films(trips) Podcast | Cruising from 2019-11-08T23:22:13
In this special addition of the Porno Cultures Podcast, we’re proud to feature an episode of the Films(trips) podcast abo...
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Laura Helen Marks from 2019-09-13T12:37:56
Pornography is often talked about as this abstract alien “thing” that has no connection to the real-world experience of any “decent” or “good” person. The thinking goes that since pornography is...
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Porno Mags from 2019-08-09T11:54:01
In this episode we explore the wild world of pornographic magazines. Believe it or not, before the popularization of the internet, a great many people had their first and most lasting encounters...
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Nicholas de Villiers from 2019-07-10T11:38:38
When we think about the rhetoric around sex workers it’s often easier to hear or read opinions advocating for the abolishment of sex work coming from politicians or “concerned citizens” who are ...
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Elena Gorfinkel from 2019-06-04T17:23:54
In this episode we delve into the seedy and exciting world of sexploitation cinema! Oftentimes, pornography studies is so busy working to legitimate hard core texts that we sometimes forget abou...
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Who is Pat Rocco? from 2018-12-26T19:01:46
Pat Rocco is a figure that doesn’t fit easily into pornography’s history. Pat started making films featuring nude male characters in soft core situations just before 1971’s Boys in the Sand<...
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Susanna Paasonen from 2018-12-10T23:05:34
In this episode, we’re joined one of the most prolific and accomplished scholars in the field of pornography studies, Susanna Paasonen. She is a professor of media studies at the University of T...
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Canadian Content: The Adult Film Industry&its Canadian Contexts from 2018-09-18T15:15:17
Believe it or not, Canada might be the most important country determining what porn you’re watching today! I say that because the most popular porn sites in the world were created, and continue ...
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Grad Student Roundtable from 2018-08-09T11:23:38
In this episode we’re trying something different! This is our first “roundtable” episode featuring four guests. And instead of talking with established scholars in the field, we’re actually talk...
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Lynn Comella from 2018-07-16T21:22:38
Professor Lynn Comella joins us to talk about her books New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law ...
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Chris Harder from 2018-06-08T12:00:36
While porn studies delve into history and theory books in order to legitimize its position within academia, scholars can often times lose track of the most essential voices that offer us an impo...
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Zachary Sire from 2018-05-11T12:05:21
Zachary Sire is the editor of the essential gay porn blog Str8UpGayPorn. Str8UpGayPorn is the primary news and gossip site of the gay porn industry. If you’re a porn star and you’ve done somethi...
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Ashley West from 2018-04-13T09:08:52
Ashley West is the host of the most successful porn podcast of them all, The Rialto Report. The Rialto Report explores the history of the “golden age” of porn in the 1960s, 70s & 80s by inte...
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Rebecca Sullivan from 2018-03-12T16:35:30
Professor Rebecca Sullivan joins us to talk about her role as the chair of the steering committee for the Sexuality Studies Associati...
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David Church from 2018-02-09T14:49:49
Professor David Church joins us to talk about his newest book Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (2016). His approach to pornography prod...
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Alan Bounville from 2017-12-15T14:15:53
Playwright, educator, and activist Alan Bounville joins us on the podcast to talk about his immersive theater piece Adonis Memories. The show is based on the testimonials of patrons of ...
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Whitney Strub from 2017-11-10T03:25:32
Professor Whitney Strub joins us to talk about his books: Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (2010), Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United St...
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Peter Alilunas from 2017-10-13T15:26:58
Professor Peter Alilunas joins us to talk about his first book: Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016). He details the little-known history of adult cin...
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Introduction from 2017-10-11T16:53:57
The Porno Cultures Podcast is the show where we think about pornography rather than just react to it. In this introductory episode host Brandon Arroyo explains how his love of Alfred Hitchcock led ...
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