观看欲望：通往后视觉的情欲研究
With the popularity of hard-core pornography in the digital age, scholarly research has been increasingly concerned with the issue of gender representation in such erotic texts. In China, although any form of porn is still illegal, young people are extensively exposed to sexually explicit materials. Thereinto, Japanese Adult Video (JAV), with an East Asian set of ideologies and bodily aesthetics, is one of the most widespread categories and has a profound impact on its audiences and the production of other genres of porn in China. However, limited research has investigated this transnational consumption of pornography, especially in the Chinese context.
This sharing is based on a study conducted by me for my undergraduate thesis. In this study, I explored how male audiences perceive gender power dynamics and representations in Japanese AV through interviews supplemented by online observations. By dialoguing with theories of “erotic literacy,” reality and fantasy, and suspension, I propose that pornography viewers exhibit a unique pattern that allows them to cope with the disconnect between erotic fantasy and reality while realizing a sustained enjoyment of pornography.
Now, I will also focus on sharing two aspects of my own critique of this research: on a possible methodological attitudinal fallacy and a perspectivism bias in the selection of topics. Of course, I will also respond to both critiques and point to my personal preference for a new path in pornography studies-a path toward a post-perspectivism pornography studies.
本系列活动主要面向Sociology理论志成员及其他对社会学感兴趣的同学，以学生分享、学生评议、观众提问的方式为主，欢迎对社会学有兴趣的同学添加活动联系人报名分享。我们会根据分享人的分享内容寻找相关领域有研究经验的同学参与评议，就具体研究展开学术交流。
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