ABSTRACT
Digital porn communities such as fan sites and message boards enabled consumers to gather and share their interests about sexuality and also sexual imagery with the promise of relative anonymity, and to establish visible erotic cultures and subcultures, chipping away at the stigma of pornography consumption, as well as sexuality writ large. Women have self-published porn sites for their own personal and economic gain since the early days of the Internet, as noted by DeVoss, but these women too were still creating images and videos that catered to a largely male gaze. Theirs was pornography created primarily for men to purchase and consume. The creation of this particular series signifies a number of socio-cultural shifts. The chapter concludes with potential directions for future research, as well as a call for application of an inclusive feminist sexual ethic to future research on pornography and other sexual representations.
