Porn Archives

<div>While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia pornography-as an aesthetic moral and juridical category-is a modern invention. The contributors to <i>Porn Archives</i> explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving cataloguing and transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating access to sexually explicit material archives have helped constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result porn has become a site for the production of knowledge as well as the production of pleasure.<br><br>The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics range from library policies governing access to sexually explicit material to the growing digital archive of war porn or eroticized combat imagery; and from same-sex amputee porn to gay black comic book superhero porn. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders transforms technologies consolidates sexual identities and challenges notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection concludes with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography archives held by institutions around the world.<br><br><i>Contributors</i>. Jennifer Burns Bright Eugenie Brinkema Joseph Bristow Robert Caserio Ronan Crowley Tim Dean Robert Dewhurst Lisa Downing Frances Ferguson Loren Glass Harri Kahla Marcia Klotz Prabha Manuratne Mireille Miller-Young Nguyen Tan Hoang John Paul Ricco Steven Ruszczycky Melissa Schindler Darieck Scott Caitlin Shanley Ramon Soto-Crespo David Squires Linda Williams<br></div>