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The performativity of pain: affective excess and Asian women's sexuality in cyberspace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

L. Ayu Saraswati
L. Ayu Saraswati*
Affiliation:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
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L Ayu Saraswati, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Manoa, HI 96822, USA. Email: luhayu@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article employs a thumbs and thumbnails analysis to analyze the 85 most viewed Asian online porn thumbnails, videos, and their audiences’ comments to argue that cyberspace functions as a space of “affective simulation,” rather than simply as a space of representation. For these online viewers, the performativity of pain by Asian women porn stars functions as an entry point to access and externalize their affective excess.

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sexualityonline pornographyaffective spacepaingender and race
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Diogenes , Volume 63 , Issue 1-2: Emotions and Ethical Life: Perspectives from Asia , February 2016 , pp. 102 - 118
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Copyright © ICPHS 2022

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