ABSTRACT
Drawing on recent developments in India, this chapter examines the cultures of sexual violence, with a special focus on the intersections of rape and pornography. It argues that porn is an economically, socially and culturally significant phenomenon that must be understood as falling within the domains of representation and commercialised sex. The rapid transnational spread of porn is a consequence of the Internet boom, technological changes, capitalist entrepreneurship and the ease with which the (sexual) labour of women is commodified. The neoliberal ethos, current economics and capitalist logic, the chapter concludes, are deeply imbricated in emotional and intimate lives and ascribe value to subject-bodies on which intersecting identities of gender, race, class, nationality and ethnicity are staged, eroticised and sold.
