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Healthy Sex and Pop Porn: Pornography, Feminism and the Finnish Context

Susanna Paasonen

University of Helsinki, Finland, susanna.paasonen{at}helsinki.fi

Objections to pornography as the commercialization of the intimate, as sexist or as generally harmful are voiced internationally, yet their investments and dynamics cannot be reduced to those expressed in the US in the wake of the sex wars. Addressing Finnish traditions of porn regulation, consumption and research, as well as the Nordic discourses of ‘good sex’, this article argues for the centrality of local histories in making sense of pornography. It conceptualizes pornography in terms of a dynamic nexus of actors, discourses, media economies, technologies and consumers that can only be studied through and within its specific articulations.

Key Words: feminism • Finland • normativity • pornography • porn studies

Sexualities, Vol. 12, No. 5, 586-604 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1363460709340369
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