Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Digital Pornography

This paper explores digital pornography dialectically through a case study of Kink.com, an online BDSM subscription service. It considers the tension between discourses of authenticity that seek to obscure profit motive and shifts in content prompted by market considerations. Author Biography Jennifer Miller, University of Texas at Arlington Jennifer Miller is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural theorist who researches children's picture books. She has published in the Journal of Homosexuality, the edited collection Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between, and is currently working on a book length project under contract with the University Press of Mississippi.

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Fast Capitalism
Published
2026-01-26
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https://doi.org/10.32855/1930-014x.1276
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Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Digital Pornography

Jennifer C. Miller
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Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Digital Pornography

Jennifer C. Miller
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Abstract

This paper explores digital pornography dialectically through a case study of Kink.com, an online BDSM subscription service. It considers the tension between discourses of authenticity that seek to obscure profit motive and shifts in content prompted by market considerations. Author Biography Jennifer Miller, University of Texas at Arlington Jennifer Miller is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural theorist who researches children's picture books. She has published in the Journal of Homosexuality, the edited collection Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between, and is currently working on a book length project under contract with the University Press of Mississippi.

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