Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines how an online community of gay South Korean porn producers, consumers, and distributors used Tumblr to co-construct a porn platform under government censorship of porn. Utilizing assemblage theory, the article traces the cultural and political lines that not only shape Korea’s internet ecology but also prompted gay Korean men to adopt Tumblr as their go-to aggregate porn website. Tumblr offered a space in which gay Korean porn consumers desiring ‘sameness’ could see and hear themselves sexually represented. Ultimately, in examining the specificities of the South Korean context, I also seek to encourage porn studies scholarship to continually consider the cultural, social, geopolitical, and temporal contexts of porn consumption, production, and circulation, so as to avoid the indiscriminate application of the Western perspective to other sociocultural contexts.
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