Pornscape

Kitschy, other-directed places are the rule in downtown shopping and entertainment districts (where they reach perhaps their purest expression in the cityscape of pornography or 'pornscape'), in the roadside strips which fringe most cities, and in almost all tourist centres.

Barcan notes the increasing popularity of ‘reality porn’ within the overall ‘pornscape’, and describes how this genre fetishizes authenticity and ‘brazenness’ or ‘rawness’.

We are living in willing captivity to our worst nightmares, ensepulchred inside a pseudo-ethnographic pornscape of the exotico-folklorico, those savage documentaries of the 1960s that have their roots in such 1950s films as Sex Madness, Savage Africa, Mau Mau, Cannibal Island, Continente Perduto, Magia Verde and L’Impero del Sole—documentaries who go by such names as Mondo Cane, Mondo Nudo, Mondo Freud, Hollywood’s World of Flesh, Onna Onna Onna Monogatari, La Femme Spectacle.

In her chapter, Micha Cárdenas analyses queer porn paysites as (potential) postcapitalist projects, drawing on the work of the feminist economist duo J. K. Gibson-Graham; while Katrien Jacobs’s article documents the struggle of netporn to maintain its “radical promises,” in a pornscape dominated by serialization and “tamed obscenities.”