ABSTRACT
This chapter explores monster toon porn in terms of both its irregular embodiments and their uncanny lack of affect, and considers how these nonhuman displays of sexualised and gendered dynamics of control connect to game culture. These considerations are tied in with a discussion on the specificities of digitally generated and distributed pornography in terms of media technology, labour and ethics. Digital image manipulation and animation tools have grown increasingly accessible. On the one hand, sexual scenarios are markedly affective in their visceral attention to bodily detail and in the dynamics of disgust, amusement and sexual arousal that they aim to evoke. On the other hand, the monsters and their more or less human partners are regularly affectless in their animated, machinic bodily movements. The chapter focuses on the oeuvre of Studio FOW who specialise in crowdfunded Source Filmmaker (SFM) hentai monster videos set in game worlds.
