This special issue, ‘Canon Fodder: Reappraising Adult Cinema’s Neglected Texts’, offers short readings of individual films worthy of reclamation into an expanded canon of the adult film history. Pornography’s belated inclusion into the field of film studies not only occurred at a moment after the 1960s–1970s heyday of genre criticism, but the genre’s political and aesthetic devaluation has also stymied academic efforts to build a representative canon of ‘great’ or ‘notable’ porn films. The authors included in this issue, however, argue on behalf of specific films worthy of serious consideration for their historical and aesthetic value, not just their bodily appeals.

In the early 2000s, Extreme Associates was one of the most controversial gonzo porn production companies, famous for its outrageous videos which often featured fictional rape and murder scenarios. In August 2003, a grand jury indicted the company on federal obscenity statutes. The financial burden of the defence led Extreme Associates to seek funding from the pornography industry. However, the industry turned its back on them. In particular, Larry Flynt – owner of porn colossus Hustler and ‘elder statesman’ of the pornography industry – condemned the company and engaged in an online debate with Extreme Associates producer Robert Zicari. This article analyzes the legal history of Extreme Associates’ trials and the reaction of the porn industry as a whole, trying to answer a simple question: ‘What is too “Extreme” for pornography’?

Pornography producers in Japan are finding themselves increasingly struggling to maintain profits as free content becomes ever more easily available online. Within this environment one niche area is bucking trends and increasing sales—pornography for women. In an industry where a DVD that sells 3,000 copies is considered a hit, female-friendly pornography company Silk Labo has been able to not only produce DVDs which sell over 10,000 copies, but also generate publicity about the company and its aims which reaches far beyond neighbourhood DVD rental stores, and contributes to a wider conversation about women, sex, and pleasure in Japan today. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and critical analysis of Silk Labo films to understand the phenomenon of increasing consumption of pornographic content by women in contemporary Japan, and asks whether the phenomenon is subversive or feminist. Keywords: Japan, women, female-friendly porn, feminist pornography, Silk Labo, eromen

In this article, we offer an insight into Greek mainstream porn production after contextualizing it historically, socially and culturally. Through interviews and discourse analysis, we examine how porn workers talk about themselves as professionals, as romantic persons and as self-regulated individuals, and we present the industry from the point of view of a producer. We argue that the domestic porn industry works like a closely knit community of workers, where participants share problems, attitudes and affection, and where issues of sexual health are as important as agency.

50 free online copies available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7ejZVjsQM3fywnBxRGPn/full The term ‘gonzo’ is often misunderstood or misused, becoming a sort of metonymy or lightning rod for more general controversies around pornography. More interesting perhaps, the term has been progressively discarded by the porn 2.0 industry. How then might we understand gonzo? This article investigates the discursive construction of gonzo pornography through a digital ethnography of online spaces where gonzo porn is watched or debated, proceeding through two stages. First, the close reading of three important user-generated content sites hosting the ‘definitional’ or ‘ontological’ efforts of users (Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary); and second, the sampling and consequent analysis of 378 comments on gonzo videos deposited on the streaming site PornHub. "POV to the people: online discourses about gonzo pornography", Porn Studies, Volume 3, 2016 - Issue 4, pp. 362-372.

While many sexual health promotion campaigns in Australia targeting gay men have utilized erotic imagery, this approach is rarely deployed by projects targeting other populations. This paper reflects on the development of an innovative project targeting sexually adventurous women, emphasizing sexual behaviour such as kink/multiple partner play rather than sexual identity. While the suite of resources include safer-sex and safer-piercing ‘play packs’, this paper focuses on the online resource and social media campaign associated with the project. The paper draws on participant observation and reflective interviews with the project reference group, including representatives of the funding organization and members of Sydney BDSM/fetish community. In doing so, it considers the opportunities and challenges inherent in the development of ‘edgy’ and explicit sexual health information within the digital space. In particular, it considers the challenges of linking sexual imagery and explicit sexual health information to target a female audience, for whom sex is more often framed as ‘risk’ than ‘pleasure’.

An affective reading of how networked porn texts work to compose an active pornographic space.