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Hearing Feminist Sex

2025· article· W4416928970 on OpenAlexaff
Haley Kassandra Down

Bibliographic record

Venue(Un)Disturbed A Journal of Feminist Voices · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicSound Studies and Aurality
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoundscapeHuman sexualityWitnessModality (human–computer interaction)Key (lock)DepictionNarrative

Abstract

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This essay offers an in-depth exploration of audio erotica, specifically from the Quinn app, and its potential to shape new understandings and imaginations of feminist sex. The essay identifies three key elements that define the soundscape of feminist audio erotica: 1) its naturalistic modality (van Leeuwen 1999), which allows listeners to witness and engage with feminist sex; 2) the “grain of the voice” (Barthes 1977), which highlights the sensuality of consent-driven, communicative intimacy; and 3) a gendered reversal of visual and auditory frenzy which subverts our patriarchal sexual imagination that women’s sexuality is audible, while men’s is visual (Corbett and Kapsalis 1996). In mapping this soundscape the essay muses on the possibilities offered to listeners by attuning themselves to sexuality rooted in “pleasure, safety and [calmness]” (Larson 2019).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.067

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.012
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0000.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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