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This book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media-from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography-and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women's use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a piece of wide-scale mixed methods research that examines these motivations, an original and important volume is presented that serves to explore and contribute to this under-researched area.
List of contents
Chapter One: Welcome To The Freak Show.- Chapter Two: Boys on Film.- Chapter Three: The Joy of Slash.- Chapter Four: Don't you know that it's different for girls.- Chapter Five: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.- Chapter Six: '...Always should be someone you really love'.- Chapter Seven: 'It's a Mixed Up Muddled Up Shook Up World'.- Chapter Eight: 'You give me the sweetest taboo'.- Chapter Nine: The times, they are a changin'.
About the author
Lucy Neville is a Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK.
Summary
Capitalises on growing academic (and public) interest in women porn consumers
Address an identified gap in the literature by presenting empirical work which elicits women’s own accounts of their experiences of pornography
Provides theoretical underpinning and deeper understanding of recent observations that many women watch m/m pornography, which has so far been under-explored in the literature (although commented on a great deal in popular discourses)
Draws on a much larger sample size than previous work in this area (primarily from within fan studies looking at slashfiction) in order to more fully understand why and how women engage with m/m erotic content
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“Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys … is a sort of 50 shades of gay for the modern woman.” (The Sunday Times Style magazine, January 20, 2019)
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"Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys ... is a sort of 50 shades of gay for the modern woman." (The Sunday Times Style magazine, January 20, 2019)
