The Internet Is for Porn
Abstract
The internet has created a quantitative and qualitative difference in how we watch pornography today. In synthesizing the existing scholarly literature, this chapter provides a baseline for analyzing fundamental questions of online pornographic spectatorship for film and media studies. It examines how the internet reconstitutes pornographic spectatorship, major conceptual and methodological points of view that shape the field, the limits of the field and its approaches to this area of research, and how viewing online pornography follows and departs from broader trends in internet consumption.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Sexuality
Behavior
and Technology
Sex work and related issues
Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Intellect eBooks
- Pages
- 389–400
- Publication date
- 8 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter