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Porn Work

Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

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Porn Work

By: Heather Berg
Narrated by: Camille Quinn
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Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes listeners behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it.

Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

©2021 Heather Berg (P)2022 Tantor
Human Sexuality Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Sexual & Reproductive Health
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Most relevant
don't know what I expected, got by recommendation in substack
flat and bloated with words
It could be 5-6 medium size blog posts, now it's a watery moaning about 'everything is wrong, no-one is understanding this the way they should' lightly spiced with fancy terms like 'dialectics'.

So much water

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