Seks i internet: otelotvorenje ženske seksualnosti u online pornografiji
Sex And The Web: The Embodiment Of Female Sexuality In On-line Pornography

Summary/Abstract: Pornography still remains one of the forbidden secrets of contemporary Western societies. By assuming the human body as the reference point for defining the contemporary subject, we systematically attempt the mapping out of on-line female pornography. The dissemination and propagation of the Internet, as well as its easy accessibility, transforms it into a social laboratory of recording and studying the modern attitudes towards the body, as well as its shaping and its sexual utilization. The scope of this article is to carefully analyze characteristic pages of pornographic content in order to reveal the female sexual body forged and reproduced as an image and practice. In other words, we aim to record, present and discuss the particular ways in which it is depicted, segmented, embellished and worshipped on porn sites. In addition, reference is made to the ways pornography is expressed on the Internet – for instance, user's personal pages, camera girls and MySpace. Our main conclusion is that, on the one hand, on-line porn reproduces the fundamental principles of modern Western societies, where the female body becomes an instrument and is transformed into an object/commodity for acquisition (even it is just an image) and, on the other hand, it can sometimes critically operate as a mechanism of resistance against the mainstream commercial rationale

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