Escoffier, Jeffrey (Author)
Alain Giami (Editor)
Sharman Levinson (Editor)
Springer International Publishing
Pages: 245-259
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
In the early 1980s, Robert Stoller a prominent psychoanalyst and the pioneering theorist of gender identity decided to devote himself to research on the adult film industry. He had been led to that project through his research on sexual excitement. He wanted to discover if the adult film industry had acquired a specialized ‘body of knowledge’ about what sort of sexual scripts and fantasies provoked sexual excitement in their audience. In this paper, I explore Stoller’s ‘epistemological’ investigation.’ And although he died before completing his research, his work pointed to the epistemological role that pornography played in mapping the shape of sexual desire in the contemporary era.
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