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Hearing Feminist Sex

2025· article· W4416928970 on OpenAlex

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.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

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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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.595
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

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