[Commlist] Call for Papers: Audio Porn/Porn Audio

*Call for contributions on Audio Porn/Porn Audio for Routledge journal 
/Porn Studies/*

/Forbes/ contributor Franki Cookney recently observed that

Audio porn has been steadily growing in popularity over the last 15 
years. In the same way that the inscrutability of the eReader was 
credited for the uptake in literary erotica, audio offers privacy. But 
it’s more than that: The beauty of audio is its intimacy, the chance to 
retreat to your personal bubble. That’s true whether you listen to 
politics, comedy or true crime, but in few genres is it more appealing 
than with porn. (Cookney 2019)

Certainly audio porn seems to be undergoing something of a renaissance - 
it has become such an important segment of Audible’s output that it has 
its own subscription and rankings. Website Quinn recently relaunched and 
with Dipsea, Literotica and Reddit also producing sexually explicit 
audio it seems that there is a sizeable market for affective pleasures 
of the aural kind. Elsewhere on the web, community-orientated DIY audio 
such as r/GoneWildAudio offers forms of interactivity and new 
possibilities for communicating carnalities. Some formats and output are 
the revitalisation of that older service, the chat line, while others 
contribute to the podcast boom in commentary and analysis. From /The 
Ersties/ through to /My Dad Wrote a Porno/, pornography has proved a 
fruitful and popular topic for podcasting.

Pornography is traditionally understood as a visual medium but more 
recently it seems we may have entered the era of the frenzy of the 
aural. The journal of /Porn Studies/ invites original papers from a 
variety of perspectives, which may include, but are by no means limited 
to, the following:

  * audio streaming erotica
  * narratology, seriality, and form in audio spaces
  * podcasting about the porn industry
  * podcasting from the porn industry
  * confessional stories
  * exploring audiences and listening publics
  * monetising commentary
  * monetising podcasts
  * affect, intimacy and the voice
  * aurality

Please send abstracts of up to 500 words and a short biographical note 
to (editorspstudies /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(editorspstudies /at/ gmail.com)> by June 
1, 2020.

Cookney, Franki. 2019. Audio porn is a booming business and here are 
five of the best. Forbes. (22 August) Available at 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankicookney/2019/08/22/audio-porn-is-a-booming-business-and-here-are-5-of-the-best/


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