Here be monsters: monster porn and the crisis of masculinity

This article analyses the pornographic subgenre monster porn. It considers animated pornographic monsters as vital revelatory symbols in which significant anxieties and discourses around contemporary male sexuality can be read. This article relates monster porn to recent media controversies concerning men such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, figures consistently understood as “monsters” and considers how the metaphorical potency of pornographic animation can be read as signs of a fundamental and significant shift in the meaning of monstrosity, abjection and normativity that is essential for understanding male sexuality in the twenty-first century. This reconfiguration is vital in relation to recent online movements such as #MeToo and demonstrates the continuing significance of the monster as a figure of crisis during this global dredging up of sexual horror.