Val Webber received their PhD in Community Health & Humanities from Memorial University investigating occupational health protocols used in pornography production. They hold a Masters of Public Health from Memorial University and a Masters in Medical Anthropology from McGill University. Their undergraduate degree from Concordia University was in Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality. They are currently the board chair of PASS (Performer Availability Screening Services), a non-profit focused on health and safety in the adult industry, and serve as an advisor to the owners of Pornhub/Aylo, Ethical Capital Partners. Then have been a postdoctoral research fellow with Dr. Matthew Numer's SHaG Lab at Dalhousie University since 2022.
Experience
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2022–presentPostdoctoral fellow, Dalhousie University
Publications
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2023No Respect: Sex Research as Sex Work, Porn Studies, online first
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2023The impact of rurality on vulvodynia diagnosis and management – primary care providers and patient perspectives, Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 28(3):107-115
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2023Pornhub & Policy: Erasure of Sex Workers in Canadian Pornography Platform Governance, Canadian Journal of Communication, (48)2: 381-404
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2023Sex Exceptionalism and Erasure in Porn Health Protocols, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 26(1): 126-141
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2021Crossovers and Consent: Underlying Assumptions in Porn Health Protocol, Synoptique, 9(2): 183-200
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2020Vulvodynia viewed from a disease prevention framework: Insights from patient perspectives, Sexual Medicine, 8(4): 757-766
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2018Assessing Risk to Researchers: Using the Case of Sexuality Research to Inform Research Ethics Board Guidelines, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 19(3), Art. 2
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2018Constructing a Crisis: Porn Panics and Public Health, Porn Studies, 5(2): 192-196
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2018“I'm not gonna run around and put a condom on every dick I see”: Tensions in Safer Sex Activism Among Queer Communities in Montreal, Quebec, Sexuality & Culture, 22(3): 758-777
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2015Stigmatizing Surveillance: Blood-borne Pathogen Protocol and the Dangerous Doctor, Critical Public Health, 26(4): 359-367
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2015Public Health versus Performer Privates: Measure B’s Failure to Fix Subjects, Porn Studies, 2(4): 299-313
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2013Shades of Gay: Performance of Girl-on-Girl Pornography and Mobile Authenticities, Sexualities, 16(1/2): 217-235
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