Table Of ContentPORN ARCHIVES
PORN
ARCHIVES
Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky,
and David Squires, editors
Duke university Press
Durham and London 2014
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Porn archives / Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, and David Squires, editors.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5671- 4 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5680- 6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Pornography— History. 2. Pornography in popular culture. 3. Pornography— Social aspects.
I. Dean, Tim, 1964– II. Ruszczycky, Steven, 1981– III. Squires, David D., 1984–
hq471.P57 2014
363.4′7— dc23 2014019387
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Cover art: Untitled “paste-up” by Jess Collins, circa 1950s. © The Jess Collins Trust; used by permission.
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University of New York.
CONTENTS
AcknowleDgments | ix
introDuction Pornography, Technology, Archive |
Tim Dean, 1
PART I Pedagogical Archives
1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field |
Linda Williams, 29
2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation
with Frances Ferguson, 44
3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang,
and the Others | Nguyen Tan Hoang, 61
4 Pornography in the Library | David Squires, 78
PART II Historical Archives
5 “A Quantity of Offensive Matter”: Private Cases in Public
Places | Jennifer Burns Bright and Ronan Crowley, 103
6 Up from Underground | Loren Glass, 127
7 “A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm”: Teleny and the
Defense of the Phallus | Joseph Bristow, 144
PART III Image Archives
8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action |
Robert L. Caserio, 163
9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure
in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics | Darieck Scott, 183
10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive |
Robert Dewhurst, 213
11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine
Louise Houston | Mireille Miller- Young, 234
PART IV Rough Archives
12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic
Archive | Lisa Downing, 249
13 Rough Sex | Eugenie Brinkema, 262
14 “It’s Not Really Porn”: Insex and the Revolution in
Technological Interactivity | Marcia Klotz, 284
PART V Transnational Archives
15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire |
Ramón E. Soto- Crespo, 303
16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the
Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda | Melissa Schindler, 317
17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the
Limits of Belief and Humiliation | John Paul Ricco, 338
18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography |
Prabha Manuratne, 356
PART VI Archives of Excess
19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology
of Desire | Harri Kalha, 375
20 Stadler’s Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography |
Steven Ruszczycky, 399
21 Stumped | Tim Dean, 420
APPenDix Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography
of Porn Research Collections | Caitlin Shanley, 441
filmogrAPhy | 457
bibliogrAPhy | 459
notes on contributors | 481
inDex | 485
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Porn Archives began life during the spring of 2010 as an international confer-
ence, “At the Limit: Pornography and the Humanities,” which was held at the
University at Buffalo in conjunction with the graduate seminar The History
and Theory of Pornography. We are grateful to the many students, faculty,
and administrators at Buffalo who helped make the conference and the semi-
nar so successful. For financial support, we thank the departments of anthro-
pology, comparative literature, English, history, and visual studies; the Baldy
Center for Law and Social Policy; the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis
and Culture; the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo; the Gender Insti-
tute; Rodolphe Gasché; Steve McCaffery; and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. We wish
to acknowledge especially Buffalo’s Humanities Institute (including its Cul-
tural Studies Research Workshop and its Queer Theory Research Workshop),
which provided most of the funding for the conference and the primary intel-
lectual context for Porn Archives, as well as a subvention that helped to defray
publication expenses. We thank the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
Bruce D. McCombe, whose vision for revitalizing the humanities at Buffalo
made such a difference. Others at Buffalo—María Almanza, Wendy Belz, Leah
Benedict, Mary Carr, Sara Eddleman, Mary Foltz, James Godley, Lydia Kerr,
James Maynard, Steven Miller, Nick Mugavero, Dustin Parrott, Matt Pieknik,
Jana Schmidt, Bill Solomon, and Divya Victor— significantly contributed to
this project. We express gratitude to Frances Ferguson for visiting Buffalo to
discuss her work on pornography and to Zabet Patterson for speaking at the
conference. Finally, we thank our wonderful contributors for their patience
and good humor, as well as their readiness to think beyond the conventional
academic frameworks for understanding pornography.
Our editor at Duke University Press, Courtney Berger, has been a model of
tact and professionalism in shepherding Porn Archives through the review pro-
cess. We are grateful for her editorial guidance and for securing three anony-
