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Big Pharma Gets a Woody: Porn, Hypercapitalism and “The Second Sexual Revolution”, draft paper
Viagra has changed the way we think about erections, and extended the medicalisation of human sexuality. At the same time, porn displays ever bigger and harder erections, and has turned bodies into ‘meat’ and ‘plant’. What is the relationship between these developments and trends in hypercapital?

‘“Choke on it, Bitch!” Porn Studies, Extreme Gonzo and the Mainstreaming of Hard-core’ in Feona Attwood & Samantha Holland (eds) Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualisation of Culture, IB Tauris, forthcoming 2007
Choking, slapping, vomiting, unsafe sex . . . Is porn getting worse? Have academics, feminists and other critics lost the plot when it comes to holding porn to account?

Buffy Wars: The Next Generation
Still subversive after all these years, or is the Hollywood Amazon showing her age? Slayerettes in cyberspace take on the military industrial complex, well that's something new at least . . .
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‘From Porno-topia to Total Information Awareness, or What Forces Really Govern Access to Porn?’ New Formations, no 52 Spring 2004
Horny Catbabe gets legal, Visa gets into trouble for peddling porn, and kiddie-porn panics fuel the drive for total information awareness. Is the porn business really worth $10billion? And would we have home video, movies on demand or internet shopping without porn? [Link to Ingenta online full-text pay-per-view]