Abstract
ABSTRACTCuckold porn, which typically depicts a white man ‘forced’ to watch his white wife have sex with a black man, has become a popular subgenre over the past decade. In 2014, masculinist and racist ‘cuck’ memes began to appear in online forums and soon entered mainstream political discourse. This article considers cuckold porn and cuck memes alongside historical cuckoldry performances, like the contented ‘wittol’, an Elizabethan antecedent of the ‘fuck my wife’ desires of the modern fetish. Cuckold porn is marked by a number of queer and formal transgressions, namely in its unique ability to transcend norms of identification and spectator theory while exaggerating sexual and racial difference. The capacity to subvert yet reinforce white masculinity was maintained in the transmission of the fetish through porn and is reflected in the memes it inspired. The article ends with a discussion of cuckold porn's role as a transceiver of specific and higher-order behavioural scripts.
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