Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

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Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction: Porn Work against Work 1. Porn Feels Different Than It Looks: Porn Work on Set 2. I Was in Love! And Then It Was Over: Authenticity Work 3. A Scene Is Just a Marketing Tool: Hustling in Porn’s Gig Economy 4. I’m Kind of Always Working, but It’s Also Almost Always Really Fun: Porn and the Boundaries between Life and Work 5. Maybe the State Should Pay: Sex, Work, and the State Epilogue: Fuck Jobs Acknowledgments Appendix: Research Methods Notes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Y Z