Here be monsters: monster porn and the crisis of masculinity

This article analyses the pornographic subgenre monster porn. It considers animated monsters as vital revelatory symbols in which significant anxieties and discourses around contemporary male sexuality can be read. relates porn to recent media controversies concerning men such Harvey Weinstein Jeffrey Epstein, figures consistently understood “monsters” how metaphorical potency of animation read signs a fundamental shift meaning monstrosity, abjection normativity that is essential for understanding twenty-first century. reconfiguration relation online movements #MeToo demonstrates continuing significance figure crisis during this global dredging up sexual horror.