Open AccessThe depiction of men in contemporary pornographic movies
Author(s) -
Gabriela Bortacka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dziennikarstwo i media
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2082-8322
DOI - 10.19195/2082-8322.15.9
Subject(s) - depiction , pornography , field (mathematics) , happening , sociology , media studies , psychology , history , visual arts , art , psychoanalysis , performance art , mathematics , pure mathematics , art history
This article describes how men are presented in pornographic materials available on one of the most popular thematic websites — PornHub.com. The article contains a disambiguation of the term ‘pornography’, and discusses the reach of the pornographic market, as well as the audience and specifics of PornHub. The main part contains an empirical study of fifteen movie productions divided into three categories: heterosexual, homosexual, and for women. The article presents both the physical description of what is happening in the film and the analysis of the gender roles of the depicted characters. All selected films were made in 2018 or later. Pornography research is an extremely broad field, which is looked into by many professions: sexologists, film experts, sociologists, psychologists and even feminist activists. Some findings were recalled at work, but this is only an outline of the matter.