The Practices of Amateur Pornography

该研究项目调查了那些创造业余色情自我展示的人的媒体和性行为。它的目的是收集新的经验数据，以及勾勒出新的探索性的研究方法，在社会学的性研究领域。因此，该研究项目调查了广泛传播的业余色情自我展示，作为记录自我展示做法以及非专业性做法和互动的准（自动）人种学数据。准确地说，业余色情自我展示不仅被用作调查的对象，而且还被用作研究潜在的性文化转变的方法学工具。由于习惯化和整合的性脚本在每次性（间）行为中被制定和复制，对业余色情的分析被视为打开私人性行为和互动的黑匣子的唯一机会，由于传统研究方法的限制，这一领域一直处于封闭状态。展示是为了表达个人的性身份和欲望，而不是主要出于经济目的。对业余色情制品的制作进行系统研究，首先是为了使人们了解性行为者如何操纵和协商他们之间的性安排、脚本、身份和做法，其次是为了揭示他们在个人欲望和普遍存在的性行为陈规定型规范之间进行调解的能力。通过这种力量，业余色情摄影师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代码的真正意识，这反过来又可以作为业余色情领域内立场的分界线。在其方法学概况中，该项目引入了一种在性的定性研究的广阔领域中很少探索的方法学设备，即图像方法的三角测量，视频和视频互动分析与定性访谈。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摄影师的感觉和生活世界[Sinn- und Lebenswelten]。

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.