People's Pornography

Katrien Jacobs is associate professor in cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the author of Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics.

• Chapter 1: The Cyber Yellow Disaster: From the Everyday Gaze to Nation-State Espionage Chapter 2: The Pride and Pettiness of Sex Bloggers Chapter 3: Gender Variations on the Aching Sex Scene: Young Adult Fe/Male Responses to Explicit Media and Internet Culture Chapter 4: Lizzy Kinsey and the Adult FriendFinders: An Ethnographic Case Study about Internet Sex and Pornographic Self-Display in Hong Kong Chapter 5:It Runs in the Rotten Family: Queer Love Amongst Animation Fans and Costume Players

'Jacobs doesn’t underestimate the intelligence of her subjects or her audience, and while her book strikes a positive note both at the beginning and at the end, the numerous examples throughout show us that sexual expression in China is in a constant state of conflict between individual and collective desires and the ever-present and increasingly noisy demands of capital'.