Banca de DEFESA: GUILHERME HENRIQUE VIEIRA GATIS

Amateur porn: the pursuit of real pleasure on the internet

Communication; Internet; Amateur porn; Mass culture

“Going online”; “My bride decided to show off”; “Pictures of MG-SP couple”; “Boyfriend sets webcam on”. These are just a few titles that identify, on the internet, a phenomenon, analogue to the porn industry: amateur porn. Impulsed by multimedia publication tools, that allow to anyone connected to the web the free distribution of contents, the user has the possibility of not only enjoying, but also participating, producing and distributing amateur material. Amateur porn deals with a notion of “real pleasure”, that's not present in porn industry's productions. Professional, the porn industry replies a format based on a hyperbolic representation of sexual act. In this sense, amateur porn is attractive due to the insinuation of new sensations, that porn industry does not get to reach. Analyzing primordial concepts to the comprehension of amateur porn, as “obscene”, “erotic” and “pornographic” (this one observed since its origin as a mass culture component), this research intends to situate and understand amateur porn as a possible process of the consumer society’s “pornification”, and also as a new aesthetics frontier of the obscene's ways of representation.