‘Porn Trouble’: article by Laura García-Favaro published

CCI PhD Candidate Laura García-Favaro has just had an article published in Australian Feminist Studies entitled ‘Porn Trouble’: On the Sexual Regime and Travels of Postfeminist Biologism. The article looks at peer-to-peer discussions and editorial content about men’s consumption of pornography in women’s online magazines based in the UK and in Spain. The analysis shows how pseudo-scientific discourses give support to a narrative of male immutability and female adaptation in heterosexual relationships, and examines how these constructions are informed by Evolutionary Psychological accounts of sexual difference and pornography. Advancing the notion of ‘postfeminist biologism’ as a transnational ideological formation, the article contributes to feminist interrogations of Evolutionary Psychology’s ongoing popularity in the face of sound, longstanding and widespread criticism of it as scientifically flawed and culturally pernicious.