‘Who can handle a true BBC?’: masculinities, race and dick pic sharing on Reddit
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper critically examines the intersections of masculinity and race in relation to pornographic self-representation (PSR) on Reddit with a primary focus on r/MassiveCock. We argue that Massive is a site of dick pic curation that is structured by unmarked Whiteness, although its norms are disturbed by the presence of a minority of non-White racialized posters. Drawing on Cruz's (2016) notion of a politics of perversion and Miller-Young's (2008; 2010) concept of counter-fetishization, we discuss the porn performances of White, Black and MOC (men of colour) posters who mark out a racialized identity through textual cues such as usernames and post titles. We argue that while the White posters appropriate the BBC, incorporating it into hegemonic masculinity, Black posters directly mobilize it and MOC posters poach the trope to position themselves as active desiring subjects rather than passive objects/abjections of the White pornographic imaginary. Finally, we present data on visits of the two latter groups to a cluster of subreddits dedicated to non-White dick pic curation. We illustrate how some of these Redditors range through these porn geographies, potentiating perverse pleasures in the process.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it