A New Sexual Revolution? Critical Theory, Pornography, and the Internet
Bibliographic record
Abstract
La “révolution sexuelle” fut un élément central de la culture nord‐américaine durant les années 1960. Aujourd'hui, en grande partie suite à l'avènement de l'Internet, la sexualité occupe un place de plus en plus centrale dans la culture populaire, ce qui pose la question, à savoir si l'on vit présentement une période de l'histoire sexuelle semblable aux années 1960. Au cours de cet article, je discuterai les travaux de Herbert Marcuse, considéré comme le premier à théoriser la révolution sexuelle, afin de mesurer l'ampleur de leur contribution au développement d'une théorie critique de la sexualitéà l'âge numérique. Je rappellerai d'abord les grandes lignes de la théorie Marcusienne du rôle de l'éros dans la vie sociale. Une discussion suivra de deux sites web pornographiques qui combinent érotisme et critique sociale. Le travail de Marcuse prend toute son importance par la façon dont il fait ressortir l'intersection entre le sexe, la technologie et l'économie capitaliste. Cet article vise à compléter ce travail par une analyse de la masculinité et du corps masculin dans la pornographie sur Internet. The “sexual revolution” was a central element of North American culture in the 1960s. Today, sex is increasingly central to mainstream culture, in large part due to the Internet, and we might wonder whether we are living through a comparable period of sexual history. In this article, I revisit the work of Herbert Marcuse—the original theorist of the sexual revolution—to ask whether it can contribute to a critical theory of sexuality in the era of digital technology. After outlining Marcuse's theory of the role of Eros in social life, I discuss two pornographic Web sites that combine eroticism and social critique. I argue that Marcuse's work is valuable for its emphasis on the intersection of sex, technology, and capitalist economy, but that it needs to be supplemented by a focus on masculinity and the male body in Internet pornography.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".