East Asian Pornographies and Conversation Pieces at the Hong Kong Porn Seminar

This chapter provides an overview of pornography research and pedagogy in Hong Kong with a focus on young voices and new initiatives within the east Asian region. It first gives an overview of different models of media governance in how they have impacted porn cultures. Then follows a focused discussion about an east Asian pornography symposium and undergraduate seminar that took place at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the direct aftermath of a large-scale pro-democracy movement in 2019. These moments of political change triggered among scholars and students debates about the freedom of art forms and sexually explicit media as an aspect of civil society. Several “conversation pieces” written by Hong Kong students are quoted anonymously to comment on these issues in the second part of the chapter.