The Practices of Amateur Pornography

该研究项目调查了制作业余色情自我展示的人的医疗和性行为。它旨在收集新的经验数据，并勾勒出社会学性研究领域新颖的探索性研究方法。基于此，该研究项目调查了广泛分布的业余色情自我表现，作为准（自动）人种学数据，记录了自我表现的实践以及非专业的性行为和互动。确切地说，业余色情自我表现不仅被用作调查对象，而且还被用作研究潜在的性文化转变的系统工具。由于习惯化和合并的性脚本在每次性（相互）行为中都被制定和复制，因此对业余色情的分析被视为打开私人性行为和互动黑盒子的独特机会，由于传统研究方法的限制，这一黑盒子仍然被封锁。分析性调查集中在业余色情自我表现上，这些表现意味着个人性身份和欲望的表达，而不是主要出于经济目的。对业余色情作品的制作进行了系统的研究，首先是为了突出性演员如何在他们之间导航和协商他们的性安排、剧本、身份和实践，其次是为了揭示他们在个人欲望和广泛的刻板的性行为规范之间进行调解的能力。通过这种力量，业余色情工作者被赋予了积极的感觉产生演员的角色，他们表现出对个人和公共规范的真正意识，而这些规范反过来又可以作为业余色情领域内的地位界限。在其方法论简介中，该项目引入了一种在性学定性研究的广泛领域中很少探索的方法，即图像、视频和视频互动分析方法的三角测量与定性访谈。这种研究方法的三角测量允许调查性和医疗实践，以及业余色情爱好者的感觉和生活世界。

The research project investigates medial as well as sexual practices of persons who create amateur pornographic self-presentations. It is designed to collect new empirical data as well as to sketch out novel explorative research methods in the field of sociological sexual research. On that account, the research project investigates widely distributed amateur pornographic self-presentation as quasi (auto-) ethnographic data documenting practices of self-presentation as well as lay sexual practices and interactions. Precisely, amateur pornographic self-presentations are employed not only as objects of investigation, but also as methodical vehicles for the study of, potentially, transformed cultures of sexuality. Since habitualized and incorporated sexual scripts are enacted and reproduced in each sexual (inter-)action, the analysis of amateur pornography is taken as a singular opportunity for opening up the black box of private sexual practices and interactions, which has remained occluded due to the restrictions of conventional research methods.The analytical investigations center on amateur pornographic self-presentations that are meant to be expressions of individual sexual identities and desires rather than being primarily motivated by economical purposes. The production of amateur pornography is systematically studied for the sake of, firstly, bringing to the fore how sexual actors navigate and negotiate their sexual arrangement, scripts, identities and practices among themselves and, secondly, to disclose their capacities to mediate between their individual desires and widespread stereotyped norms of sexual behavior. By this dint, amateur pornographers are assigned the role as active sense-producing actors that display a genuine awareness of personal as well as public codes which, in turn, may serve as demarcations of positions within the field of amateur pornography.In its methodological profile, the project introduces a methodical device rarely probed within the vast domain of qualitative research on sexuality, i.e. a triangulation of methods of image-, video- and video interaction analysis with qualitative interviews. This triangulation of research methods allows for investigating both sexual and medial practices as well as sense and life worlds [Sinn- und Lebenswelten] of amateur pornographers.