Nominated are three key themes: space, participation and anxiety. Discourse on these videos offers insight into audience interest in and personal experiences of public-sex. Deerborn presented itself as occupying a place ‘in-between’ commercial and amateur pornography: both free of the ‘fantasy constraints’ of commercial pornography, yet also mobilising an audience following that allowed it to compete with more commercial offerings. This paper reads viewer discourse on a popular series of gay public-sex videos shared online, known as ‘Deerborn’.
