11 who is appreciative of Spark’s ‘highly aestheticized sexual scenes set to a range of evocative Scholars have also commented on the contribution of Spark to pornography (see McGlotten, 2015, Media including Out (out.com see Crook, 2011) and The Sword ( see Sire, 2011). Spark received considerable attention within the gayĬommunity for his pornographic projects, his music videos particularly. Spark’, an anonymous gay pornographer known for stylised pornographic music videos, which firstĪppeared on Xtube2 () in 2010.
gif’s’.1 (See Hester, Jones, & Taylor-Harman,Ģ015 for a discussion of pornographic GIFs and ‘microporn’.) Deerborn was a side project of ‘Black he guy or guys created these vid quickies (Tumblr vids are limited to 5 min)Īnd from those were created some really awesome. Viewer explains, Deerborn ‘was a really hot “avant-garde” who-gives-a-shit Tumblr that apparently Filmed in a variety of public locations, each video had a duration of less than 1 min. The Deerborn videos were a gay public-sex project shared via the Internet in 2013 (see Matthews,Ģ013). Through this discourse is a continued interest among gay men in publicsex, with these videos serving as both vicarious viewing, and as catalystįor participants to share their own experie nces of public-sex. Yet, theįocus of this paper remains on the commentary of viewers. Used as a structuring device in the second half of this paper, allowing forĬonsideration of the settings in which the scenes take place. Three key themes: space, participation and anxiety. Discourse on these videos offers insight into audience interest in and personal experiences of public-sex. Mobilising an audience following that allowed it to compete with moreĬommercial offerings.
Occupying a place ‘in-between’ commercial and amateur pornography:īoth free of the ‘fantasy constraints’ of commercial pornography, yet also Videos shared online, known as ‘Deerborn’.
This paper reads viewer discourse on a popular series of gay public-sex Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s ‘homemade’ gayĭepartment of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia ‘homemade’ gay porn, Psychology & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2017.1296485įull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found atĭownload by: To cite this article: Joseph Brennan (2017): Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s