An international, peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge, Porn Studies, launched on Friday. According to the editor’s first call for papers in 2013, the journal is the first ” journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic.”

The inaugural issue of Porn Studies is available for everyone to read for a limited time only. Readers can help themselves to articles such as “Internationalizing porn studies” and “Studying porn cultures.”

In 2012, the porn business in the US was worth USD $4 billion alone. As an undoubtedly influential business, have a well-researched articles published in an academic journal seems to be an obvious development in the industry.

Pornography studies are still developing and a new journal such as Porn Studies will assist in developing the knowledge of pornographies.