Porn scholars coming together: founders reflect on 10 years of the SCMS Adult Film History Scholarly Interest Group
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this interview, participants recall the founding and history of the Adult Film History Scholarly Interest Group (AFH SIG) of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Sharing their experiences as co-chairs, graduate representatives, and members, Dr Eric Schaefer, Dr Peter Alilunas, Dr Elena Gorfinkel, Dr John Paul Stadler, and Dr Feona Attwood discuss the circumstances of the early days of the SCMS AFH SIG. Their anecdotes illuminate the motivations and challenges faced by porn researchers at the groups’ inception and reflect on the SIG’s impact in years since. While documenting institutional origins through oral history, this conversation also considers how academic communities formed through the AFH SIG and similar channels have shaped developments in the field of porn research over the past decade.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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