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Dean MacCannell's four expressions of women in porn

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Sociologist Dean MacCannell coded four facial expressions in hardcore pornography: ecstatic trance, bored ignorance, instrumental work, and the dismissive ironic smile. Žižek uses this to argue that intimate transgression is strictly codified, an affair of the Big Other, not inner spontaneity.

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“they even have technical terms for it... it's not that out of custom you behave properly but then when you can no longer control yourself you explode. That they are basically strictly codified.”
“he discovered and then he contacted some guy think guys who do it and he discovered he even made them a semiotic square it's strictly codified”
“the fourth expression is my favorite this slight ironic smile ha-ha is this all you can do”

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Sociologist Dean MacCannell coded four facial expressions in hardcore pornography: ecstatic trance, bored ignorance, instrumental work, and the dismissive ironic smile. Žižek uses this to argue that intimate transgression is strictly codified, an affair of the Big Other, not inner spontaneity., illustrating interpassivity,Big Other,codification of transgression
A semiotician mapped four strictly codified facial expressions of women in hardcore porn: ecstasy, indifference, instrumental/hard-work focus, and mocking laughter, demonstrating that pornography is among the most rigidly codified genres., illustrating invisible censorship,codification of fantasy,the inexistence of the sexual relationship
Sociologist MacCannell identified four facial expressions of women during penetration in hardcore pornography: enthusiastic enjoyment, instrumental effort, boredom, and ironic smile. Žižek uses the taxonomy to illustrate the gap between performed and genuine enjoyment., illustrating enforced subjectivization,surplus enjoyment,ideology of sex