ABSTRACT
The cumshot is seemingly the most pornographic of gestures. Its forensic treatment and biological focus makes its presentation of ejaculation and pleasure explicit and obvious. This definition limits the cumshot to the visualisation of male orgasm, necessitated by the misogynist and practical requirements of pornography. In contrast, this chapter defines the cumshot as an operation between different relations, gestures, materials, images and conditions that support settler colonialism. Masturbating with the cumshot is the male settler’s most frequent expression of settler sexuality. This chapter argues that the cumshot’s fixated display of cum works to affirm heredity and productivity for the masturbating settler, providing evidence for the two dominant colonial defences of property (Locke and Blackstone). The cumshot operates across different ideological regimes of the colonial and neocolonial, biopolitical and pharmacopornographic, industrial and neoliberal, material and post-pornographic to be both a fluid symbol of productivity and the literal substance of white futurity.
