Photography and Fetish

A content analysis of smoking fetish videos on YouTube: regulatory implications for tobacco control.

This study examined the prevalence, accessibility, and characteristics of eroticized smoking portrayal, also referred to as smoking fetish, on YouTube. The analysis of 200 smoking fetish videos revealed that the smoking fetish videos are prevalent and accessible to adolescents on the website. They featured explicit smoking behavior by sexy, young, and healthy females, with the content correspon...

The Fetish of Technology: Causes and Consequences

Sex-Interface-Aesthetics: The Docile Avatars and Embodied Pixels of Second Life BDSM

Anyone paying the slightest attention to virtual worlds knows that sex is a major part of them, in particular, more fetishized forms of sex, including cyberstripping and escorts, furry sex (sex between humanoid-animal avatars), and BDSM. Virtual world sex is ubiquitous, appearing in fantasy-themed commercially created worlds such as World of Warcraft [9; 15]. But sex, especially fetish sex, com...

The Limits of Diversity

It seems on the face of it to be inherently a good thing: More ideas are better ideas. As translated into media policy, this becomes the principle of« diversity." Media content diversity is still a good thing, but in operationalizatioil matters become more complex. Questions about just what it is that is "diverse" and how the extent of diversity can be measured are the subjects of the rest of t...

Manifestation of Alchemy Symbols in Corresponding with Islamic Mysticism and Art

From the beginning of photography, various views were presented about the relationship between the body and photography, most of which focused on body as the subject of photography. Although such views address significant aspects of photography, very few studies have concentrated on the photographer’s body in creating works of art. Focusing on the concept of bodily perception, which is a bodily...