The often-told Buck Angel bio is that of a female-to-male transsexual who became a ground-breaking and award-winning porn star, documentary producer, sex educator, commentator, dating site host, an...

While major media outlets repost Pornhub’s popular search terms and ‘debate’ trans rights, the discussions among queer porn producers about tagging and gender are more nuanced. Tags (descriptive ke...

Twenty-seven-year-old American-born June Lovejoy has become a popular performer in the Japanese adult video industry after leaving an unsatisfying and exploitative corporate job in favour of what t...

In the Los Angeles grassroots gay adult film scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, stardom was often inseparable from community engagement and political action. Judy Coleman was a key star in th...

This article examines 1990s lesbian-queer San Francisco as told through the porn archive of S.I.R. Video and its founders, Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano. The creative masterminds behind the ground...

While performance in pornography bears comparison with performance in mainstream cinema, there are significant differences. Viewers respond to a mainstream actor’s ability to convey emotional and p...

Adapted (without permission) from Kenneth Anger’s notorious book about early Hollywood scandals, the 1972 sexploitation version of Hollywood Babylon is a quasi-documentary that alternates between p...

Chad Ferrin’s 2023 film Pig Killer provides a dramatization of Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton, who murdered 49 women during the 1980s and 1990s. The film is notable for unnerving performances by cult actor...

Bonnie Rotten's onscreen persona drew equally on punk-inspired and horror iconographies; a conjunctural aesthetic epitomised in the ornate spider-web pattern tattoos that adorn her breasts. Other d...

With a career in the adult industry spanning 40 years, Rocco Siffredi is undoubtedly one of the most important male porn stars to date. Despite his undoubted importance, however, he has not been th...

This article explores the career of British porn performer and producer Lindsay Honey, more commonly known as Ben Dover. Arguably Britain’s most well-known pornographer, Honey’s career is significa...

This article explores camming practices in India where performers like Oasi Das utilize platforms such as Instagram to invite subscription to their OnlyFans profiles. Focusing on the intersection b...

This article explores the case of Countess Diamond, a BDSM adult content creator who wears the hats of both producer and performer within the gig economy where adult content creators distribute por...

Amateur pornography has often been defined negatively in relationship to its professional counterpart; featuring average-looking people, awkward or disengaged performances, and poorly recorded vide...

François Sagat belongs to the most recognizable and most commented on porn stars of the 21st century, and he gained fame in and out of porn. From the beginning, in his porn work Sagat demonstrated ...

This essay considers whether too much paratext can interfere with pornographic fantasy. While Ethan Hethcote's transition from G-rated YouTube celebrity to X-rated OnlyFans performer was supposed t...

Although Brooke Van Buuren’s career in pornography lasted only about six months, she has retained a certain degree of renown because of a short clip where she gagged and coughed out semen that she ...

This article focuses on Dana Vespoli’s representation of consent in porn, and especially on the mise-en-scène of the relationship between pleasure and agreement in her 2019 Evil Angel work entitled...

In this article, I assess French-Canadian and Métis star Ariel Rebel's performance in the docu-porn Threesome (2015). There, Rebel details her biography, then a ménage à trois experience. This lead...

This article examines the work of filmmaker-producer Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink and White Productions and director of the lesbian porn classic The Crash Pad, which spawned an eponymous, ...

Published in Porn Studies (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2025)

Volume 11, Issue 4 of Porn Studies