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Porn for women: the rise of audio erotica and intimate desire.
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    184 pages

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    31 March 2026

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Summary

Audio erotica is sexually explicit audio-only content, designed to arouse the listener and bring them fulfilment. While it has existed for a long time, it has achieved significant popularity in recent years, driven by apps like Quinn, Dipsea, Emjoy, and Ferly. Notably, these apps – and many like them – were founded by women and are predominantly targeted to female audiences, making audio erotica a fascinating form of “porn for women”.

Audio Erotica focuses on these four apps …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781032896090
ISBN-10:1032896094
Author:Athena Bellas, Jodi McAlister
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:Routledge
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:31 March 2026
Weight:320g
Dimensions:156mm x 234mm
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Critics Review

“Want to know all about the newest trend in by-women/for-women erotica and sex tech? This first-ever book-length study of audio erotica is a key research text for those interested in sound studies, popular romance studies, and feminist takes on women’s desire and pleasure. With clear and lively writing, it enlightened and amused me. Highly recommended!”

Catherine M. Roach, Research Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, New College, University of Alabama

“If Justice Potter Stewart thought of pornography, “I know it when I see it,” we can now ponder what it might mean to hear it. What is audio erotica? This is the question that Bellas and McAlister answer. This book carefully brings together the study of audio cultures, erotica, romance, and the ongoing question of pornography and the obscene. Audio Erotica is not only a welcome, but much needed, contribution that points towards new and future directions. A pleasure to read.”

Jonathan A. Allan, Professor in the Department of English, Drama and Creative Writing and Gender and Women’s Studies, Brandon University

About The Author

Athena Bellas

Athena Bellas is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Arts, working in the field of feminist media and film studies.

Jodi McAlister is a Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne. She is the President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. She is also a romance novelist, and her most recent release is An Academic Affair (Atria, 2025).

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