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Pornification, Panic, and the Public Repositioning of Perversities 1 Notes 4 A New Normal? Pornification, Panic, and the Public Repositioning of Perversities 1. Australian SEXPO Health Sexuality and Lifestyle Expos are claimed by the creators Club X to be “the world’s largest adult show” (SEXPO, 2009, http://sexpo.com.au/). 2 . Bralettes are bra and underwear sets marketed to “tweens.” 3. While the findings of the inquiry do not utilize the term pornification per se, referring exclusively to the sexualization of children, it is justifi- able to consider this document because of the ways in which sexualiza- tion and pornification are used interchangeably in popular discourse. 4. Triple J is a long-running Australian free-to-air radio station, catering to young people, which also produced a series of TV shows “Triple J Hack Half Hour.” 5. SBS is an Australian government free to air broadcasting channel, which airs the weekly discussion/debate show Insight. 5 Young People, Knowledge, and Power 1 . Critical literacy is an educational technique that asks students to unpack and critically interrogate the meanings inherent in texts and representa- tions. It also aims to develop students’ understanding of the relation- ship between texts and power. 2 . Constructivist methodology is another educational pedagogy that is based on building knowledge from what the student already knows. 3. Each state school is asked to write a school context statement for the Department of Education website. 4. School Card is a system that provides financial assistance to economi- cally disadvantaged students. 6 LOL: Porn as Parody 1. “Two Girls One cup” is the trailer for a scatology pornographic film titled Hungry Bitches. The trailer depicts two women eating excrement from a teacup. 178 NOTES 2. “Schoolies” is an Australian end of school “ritual” whereby very large numbers of school leavers head to local holiday areas for a week-long party. Characterized by drinking, partying, and hooking up. 3. Double penetration is a common practice in hard-core heteroporn in which the woman’s vagina and anus are penetrated by two men at the same time. 4. LOL refers to laugh out loud in text message shorthand. 5. FML is fuck my life in text shorthand. 7 Respectable Illicits: Maintaining Control 1 . Here Dayam refers to “Damn.” 2 . SUP means “What’s up” in text shorthand. 3 . Shorthand for gangbangs. 4 . Elizabeth is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, identified as a lower socioeconomic area, and often stereotyped as a “ghetto” of “lower class.” Burnside is an area that is solidly middle to upper class. 5 . 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