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Stories that will make you blush? Erotic audio fiction on the verge between privacy and publicness.
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Sound Studies . Apr2024, p1-18. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This article focuses on the rapidly growing Swedish market of app-based audio erotic fiction through an analysis of two significant apps and publishers: Blanche Stories and Ava Stories. We explore audio erotica apps as devices of both literature, pleasure and intimate sonic connectivity. First, we discuss the specific affordances of the born-audio format, its flexible and mobile forms of listening and the consequences of this flexibility for audio erotica. Secondly, we move in on the content of these apps by taking a closer look at specific forms of erotization of books and literature present both in paratextual elements surrounding the stories, and in the stories themselves. Thirdly, we shift to a discussion of content regulation, marketing strategies and strategic framing of audio erotica apps as digital and sonic devices of pleasure. These apps and their content may be considered “safe” in a number of ways: They are framed as healthy and wholesome from a particular ethical, feminist standpoint by emphasising consent and disassociating with porn. They create intimate and, in a sense, private and safe spaces of listening. But they also carry interesting, queer potentials for mobile forms of sexuality and for public (or semi-public) sonic erotic experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20551940
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sound Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176381386
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2024.2335684