Whitney Strub on the Philology of Pornography

In this episode, Whitney Strub, Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University Newark, discusses his article "Sanitizing the Seventies: Pornography, Home Video, and the Editing of Sexual Memory," which was published in Feminist Media Histories. Strub begins by describing the media ecology of pornography during the 1970s and 80s, and how media migration and changes in distribution enabled the Bowdlerization of pornographic movies. He identifies some of the kinds of sexual practices that were erased, and the social pressures that caused their erasure. And he explains how that erasure obscures our understanding of sexual practices and desires. Strub's scholarship is available here.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.