Before sex. The construction of pornographic fantasy in the gonzo genre

Abstract

Pornography has been criticized by various feminist thinkers due to the objectification and violence that often the female gender suffers. Is evident the deep rejection that some of its representations cause due to the denigrating content that is produced from a masculine perspective. This article is based on the hypothesis that this type of content, inherent to the sexual scenes of pornography, is already present in the prepornographic scenes that precede those that show the sexual act. Thus, this research makes an approximation to different representations of gonzo pornography, also known as POV, to propose how the element of objectification of the female body, as well as the relations of man-woman power that occur within the pornographic sequence, are already present in its preliminaries. Under this common pattern, the article proposes a division of various types of approach that prepornographic scenes uses to facilitate both the establishment of the pornographic object and the preparation of the viewer, usually male, for the consumption of a type of images to which he is already accustomed.