Pornography has become central to debates about sex and is often at the centre of controversy surrounding any new media. This book focuses on online pornography, not as a site of controversy, but as an important and significant area of study in its own right.

 

The essays in the book cover porn and changing technologies, child pornography, the emergence of a mainstream adult entertainment sector, the rise of amateur producers and the labour of new porn professionals.They consider a range of porn styles - the ‘behind the scenes’ scenarios of straight porn, new gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer forms of porn, ‘shock’ pornography, and online erotic stories made by and for amateur writers.

 

They examine some of the ways that people interact around online pornography in fan communities, emerging Web cultures where pornography is illegal, erotic rate-me sites where people exchange images of themselves, and swinging sites.