Abstract
This article presents a qualitative study of 18 porn spectators' selfreflective sexual narratives. It asks how porn spectatorship shapes one’s sexual self and how it connects to transformations in sexual desires, fantasies, and pleasures. Applying theorizations of play into thinking through the relationship between sexual norms and the uses of porn, the article further conceptualizes online porn as a toy – an object to play with and to use for pleasure. Also, it offers to frame porn spectatorship as a finite province of meaning, namely a sub reality and a particular realm of experience, and thus it sets out to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ecology of play at hand.
Highlights
This article examines experiences of porn spectatorship through 18 Turkish porn spectators’ self-reflective sexual narratives. It asks how porn spectatorship shapes one’s sexual self and how it connects to transformations in sexual desires, fantasies, and pleasures
I argue that this framework allows for thinking about the uses of porn as individuated and rule-free play and makes it easier to understand the connections established between spectators and performers in acts of play
This article has proposed for conceptualizing online porn and the technologies it relies on as toyish: as a phenomenon with toyish effects during time of play
Summary
This article examines experiences of porn spectatorship through 18 Turkish porn spectators’ self-reflective sexual narratives. The article addresses different and ambivalent ways of obtaining pleasure by highlighting playful experimentations with online porn and the ways in which spectators connect with performers on-screen.
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