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PORN ARCHIVES PORN ARCHIVES Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, and David Squires, editors Duke university Press Durham and London 2014 © 2014 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ♾ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Quadraat and Quadraat Sans by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Porn archives / Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, and David Squires, editors. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5671- 4 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5680- 6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pornography— History. 2. Pornography in popular culture. 3. Pornography— Social aspects. I. Dean, Tim, 1964– II. Ruszczycky, Steven, 1981– III. Squires, David D., 1984– hq471.P57 2014 363.4′7— dc23 2014019387 isbn 978-0-8223-7662-0 (e-book) Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the University at Buffalo (suny), which provided funds toward the production of this book. Cover art: Untitled “paste-up” by Jess Collins, circa 1950s. © The Jess Collins Trust; used by permission. Image courtesy of the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. CONTENTS AcknowleDgments | ix introDuction Pornography, Technology, Archive | Tim Dean, 1 PART I Pedagogical Archives 1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field | Linda Williams, 29 2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson, 44 3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others | Nguyen Tan Hoang, 61 4 Pornography in the Library | David Squires, 78 PART II Historical Archives 5 “A Quantity of Offensive Matter”: Private Cases in Public Places | Jennifer Burns Bright and Ronan Crowley, 103 6 Up from Underground | Loren Glass, 127 7 “A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm”: Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus | Joseph Bristow, 144 PART III Image Archives 8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action | Robert L. Caserio, 163 9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics | Darieck Scott, 183 10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive | Robert Dewhurst, 213 11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston | Mireille Miller- Young, 234 PART IV Rough Archives 12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive | Lisa Downing, 249 13 Rough Sex | Eugenie Brinkema, 262 14 “It’s Not Really Porn”: Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity | Marcia Klotz, 284 PART V Transnational Archives 15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire | Ramón E. Soto- Crespo, 303 16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda | Melissa Schindler, 317 17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation | John Paul Ricco, 338 18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography | Prabha Manuratne, 356 PART VI Archives of Excess 19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire | Harri Kalha, 375 20 Stadler’s Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography | Steven Ruszczycky, 399 21 Stumped | Tim Dean, 420 APPenDix Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections | Caitlin Shanley, 441 filmogrAPhy | 457 bibliogrAPhy | 459 notes on contributors | 481 inDex | 485 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Porn Archives began life during the spring of 2010 as an international conference, “At the Limit: Pornography and the Humanities,” which was held at the University at Buffalo in conjunction with the graduate seminar The History and Theory of Pornography. We are grateful to the many students, faculty, and administrators at Buffalo who helped make the conference and the seminar so successful. For financial support, we thank the departments of anthro- pology, comparative literature, English, history, and visual studies; the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture; the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo; the Gender Insti- tute; Rodolphe Gasché; Steve McCaffery; and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. We wish to acknowledge especially Buffalo’s Humanities Institute (including its Cul- tural Studies Research Workshop and its Queer Theory Research Workshop), which provided most of the funding for the conference and the primary intel- lectual context for Porn Archives, as well as a subvention that helped to defray publication expenses. We thank the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Bruce D. McCombe, whose vision for revitalizing the humanities at Buffalo made such a difference. Others at Buffalo—María Almanza, Wendy Belz, Leah Benedict, Mary Carr, Sara Eddleman, Mary Foltz, James Godley, Lydia Kerr, James Maynard, Steven Miller, Nick Mugavero, Dustin Parrott, Matt Pieknik, Jana Schmidt, Bill Solomon, and Divya Victor— significantly contributed to this project. We express gratitude to Frances Ferguson for visiting Buffalo to discuss her work on pornography and to Zabet Patterson for speaking at the conference. Finally, we thank our wonderful contributors for their patience and good humor, as well as their readiness to think beyond the conventional academic frameworks for understanding pornography. Our editor at Duke University Press, Courtney Berger, has been a model of tact and professionalism in shepherding Porn Archives through the review pro- cess. We are grateful for her editorial guidance and for securing three anony-