Resumen de Le ragazze del porno. Women doing porn in an italian case study

Gianluca Giraudo, Marta Tedesco

• Porn is an “extreme product of the mass culture” (Regazzoni, 2010) and one of the main and least investigated media consumption in Italy. Even if academies give it the brush-off (Stella, 2011) and classic feminism condemns it (MacKinnon, 1993), porn is the driving force of technological progress – from the domestic use of VHS to the Web (Adamo, 2014) – and a crucial field for the experimentation of new communicative practices. Today we talk about neoporn due to the Web users’ protagonism in creating content and about post-porn, namely the productions designed by and for women, that go beyond the traditional patriarchal characterization of porn. Even though experiences such as the French X Femmes, the Swedish Dirty Diaries and Erika Lust’s work in Spain show that a different porn is possible, the Italian situation is different. In a comparison with other realities, the article investigates the possibilities of reforming porn in a hostile political and cultural environment like the Italian one, bringing to light particular elements we found in the case study of Le ragazze del porno.