Porn aficionados and amateurs alike can delight in an upcoming development involving a scholarly approach to the contentious field. A worldwide publisher of educational texts (books, journals, online sources) called Routledge will be rolling out a journal dedicated exclusively to porn.
The Routledge porn journal is aptly titled Porn Studies and will be out in 2014.
Anyone interested in more information about Porn Studies and/or ways to submit your own works to the journal can do so here.
Porn Studies will be "the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts," with particular attention to "the intersection of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability," as relayed by The New York Times in an article on the subject published on Tuesday, April 30.
Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith are the two "British academics" who will be editing Porn Studies; Attwood is from Middlesex University and Smith hails from the University of Sunderland. The New York Times says the duo have already received some "hearty scholarly endorsements" for their journal.
"We have waited a long time for an academic journal that treats the subject of the representation of human sexuality with the seriousness it deserves," said Julie Peakman, a historian at the University of London and author of Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in 18th-Century England, according to The New York Times.
Submissions to Porn Studies can be sent in for the first issue, which will be out in Spring 2014:
- 5,000 to 8,000 words for articles
- 500 to 1,500 words for forum submissions
- 1,500 words for book reviews
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