Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story.\xa0Porn Work\xa0takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing,\xa0Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism\xa0(UNC Press, 2021)\xa0details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.\nRachel Stuart\xa0is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies