ABSTRACT
My interest in media representations of porn consumers was sparked by a throwaway comment in McKee et al.’s The Porn Report (2008: 25): ‘The only porn users you ever hear from in the media,’ they claim, ‘are people who call themselves “addicts” and are trying to stop using it.’ It was not simply the hyperbolic nature of this claim and my sense that it was at odds with own research that piqued my interest. Rather, I was curious about its discursive function in the pages of a book which draws on a range of original, empirical research about porn consumption.1
