ABSTRACT
Stigmatized industry contains many different types of organizations, activities, and spaces, these are bound into a system where they will be subject to their effects on shared infrastructures, institutions, and norms. In the pornography industry, stigma is unevenly distributed based on the extent to which organizations are able to straddle categories. The stigma shapes the development of technology in ways, that shifts the power structure of the wider industry; and technology shapes the invocation of stigma, technologies and technologists are able to pass as mainstream. In the mainstream sectors, demand for jobs is greater than supply, blurring the lines between work and leisure allows work itself to be devalued and workers to be exploited. Whilst there are powerful cultural associations around pornography as deviant, unwholesome, and damaging, the adult industry is able to draw on the qualities of this 'dirt', which are characterized as desirable, rebellious, playful, hedonistic, radical, and sexy.
