Sabine Harrer: Vulvas on the Tablet

The distinguished lecture series “Screening Pleasure” aims at presenting ways to study and analyze discursive constructions and representations of eroticism and sexual pleasure across media and history. With a particular focus on contemporary popular culture and approaches to pornography from a feminist perspective, the lecture series will cover such diverse topics as the genesis of academic porn studies, approaches towards erotic life writing, diachronic analyses of pornographic iconography, the ‘feminist sex wars’, hegemonic and subversive sexualities in different media, the depiction of non-normative sex in popular culture, the affective and spatial politics of porn as well as analyses of the multifarious genres of porn and eroticism with their own pornographic gazes and diverse audiences.

Sabine Harrer (Universität Wien)
"Vulvas on the Tablet: What Making Cunt Touch This Has Taught Us About Pleasure and Shame in Digital Gaming"