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Teaching Porn

University of Strathclyde, UK, brian.mcnair{at}strath.ac.uk

This article gives an account of my experiences as a student and teacher of pornography in the UK university context. From my time as a student at Glasgow University in the late 1970s, to my classes on sexual transgression at Strathclyde in the 2000s, I trace changing attitudes to the pornographic, against the background of changing political and technological environments. The article considers the pedagogy of porn against the backdrop of pro- and anti-porn feminism, the rise of gay rights, and the impact of the internet. Under these influences, and over a period of three decades, pornography was destigmatized and redefined in a variety of contexts, from the irony of lad culture to the postmodern humour of the Graham Norton Show and the pro-porn feminism of the post-Madonna era.

Key Words: 1970s—1990s • ethics • feminism • pedagogy • pornography

Sexualities, Vol. 12, No. 5, 558-567 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1363460709340367


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