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@article{193082,
        author = {Prasanth K V},
        title = {Maiming the Master: Erotic Body in Segmented Spaces},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {3597-3603},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=193082},
        abstract = {This article explores the phenomenon of porn live streaming as a digital reorganisation of erotic space, in which power, desire and embodiment collide via structures of mediation and surveillance. From ideas of the partitioning of space in the thought of Michel Foucault to the reading of desire in Lacanian terms by Slavoj Zizek, it argues that the live-streamed erotic encounter subverts the traditional structure of the master and the slave because it reveals the dependence of mastery on lack. The paying viewer, who seems to be in control of the performer, becomes symbolically maimed by the very mechanisms of visibility and deferral by which pleasure is maintained. The paper considers how the digital screen acts as an apparatus of control and fragmentation, creating the erotic body as a place of performance and critique. Ultimately, it suggests that pornography live-streamed exposes the paradox of modern desire: Mastery lives by dying.},
        keywords = {Porn live streaming; digital erotic space; Foucault; Žižek; Lacanian desire; master-slave dynamic; visibility; symbolic maiming},
        month = {February},
        }