articles

Aurélie Petit, Jason Millar, Create Whoever, However? Metaphor hacking for AI-porn content generator platforms (in preparation)

Aurélie Petit, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Rise of the Imposters: Theorizing the creative porn industry in the age of Generative AI (in preparation)

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Aurélie Petit, Sexualities and erotisms in independent animated short films: Women directors’ feminist empowerment. [Sexualités et érotismes dans le court-métrage d’animation : la prise de pouvoir féministe des réalisatrices indépendantes] (under review)

Aurélie Petit (2025) The limits of Zero Tolerance policies for animated pornographic media, Porn Studies, Special Issue ‘Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work’ https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2025.2491506

Aurélie Petit (2024) The hentai streaming platform wars, Porn Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2024.2418000

Aurélie Petit (2024) Designing adult mods for the Sims 4: An interview with TURBODRIVER. ROMchip, December 2024 Issue, https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/208

Aurélie Petit (2022) “Do female anime fans exist?”: The impact of women-exclusionary discourses on rec.arts.anime. Internet Histories. Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 352-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2022.2109265

Aurélie Petit (2019) Industrial and economic stakes for French pornographic and erotic animation [Enjeux économiques et industriels de l’animation pornographique et érotique française]. Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, dossier « L’animation comme industrie culturelle ? Concevoir et produire le dessin animé », n°18, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.8166

Book chapters

Aurélie Petit (2026) Digital pornographic animation. The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality (ed. Anamarija Horvat, Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood). Routledge. (upcoming) 

Aurélie Petit (2025) Penser l’animation pornographique française par la bande dessinée. Cinéma d’animation et bande dessinée (ed. Xavier Kawa-Topor and Pascal Vimenet). Les Impressions. (upcoming)

Aurélie Petit (2025) Censure et régulation de la pornographie animanga. Guide du hentai (ed. Julia Popek, Joan Laine and Benjamin Dulot). Éditions Ynnis. (upcoming)

reports

Aurélie Petit (2024) Generative AI and the Creator Economy: A Research Agenda (Contributor), Microsoft Research https://ccsn.framer.website/Resources

Aurélie Petit (2022) Gozem. Super Apps (Contributor). Platform Lab Research Report. Issue 2. https://www.theplatformlab.com/super-apps

Aurélie Petit (2022) Anime Streaming Platform Wars (Editor and Contributor). Platform Lab Research Report. Issue 1. https://www.theplatformlab.com/reports

bOOK REVIEW

Aurélie Petit (2020) Book review of The Anime Boom in the United States (Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin). Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Images Studies, “Animating LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement”, volume 9, n°1, pp. 129-131. https://www.synoptique.ca/_files/ugd/811df8_08984c9514d8436181785eec47496567.pdf

web-based publications

Aurélie Petit (2024) Review: Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) 2024, Fantasy/Animation, https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/review-ottawa-international-animation-festival-oiaf-2024

Aurélie Petit (2024) The governance of AI-generated pornography: from deepfakes to synthetic animation, AI + Society Initiative, https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/blog/governance-ai-generated-pornography-deepfakes-synthetic-animation

Aurélie Petit (2024) WickedWhims: A conversation about adult content creation and responsible adult mods design in the Sims franchise by Aurélie Petit, Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG), https://tag.hexagram.ca/wickedwhims-a-conversation-about-adult-content-creation-and-responsible-adult-mods-design-in-the-sims-franchise-by-aurelie-petit/

Aurélie Petit (2024) The Bruno Edera Project: Archiving Adult Animation. Fantasy/Animation, https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/the-bruno-edera-project-archiving-adult-animation

Aurélie Petit (2024) The moderation of AI-Generated adult animation. Animation and video-generating AI. Animation Studies 2.0, https://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=6759

Aurélie Petit (2024) The digital ethnographic potential of animated documentaries in Knit’s Island. Ottawa International Animation Festival 2023 Review. Short Ends, https://shortends.ca/2024/02/06/the-digital-ethnographic-potential-of-animated-documentaries-in-knits-island/

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Aurélie Petit (2025) Le hentai en France, genre maudit. Hors-série Hentai Juillet-Septembre 2025, Animeland. (Paper publication) https://animeland.fr/2025/06/26/lanimeland-hors-serie-hentai-est-disponible-en-precommande/

Aurélie Petit (2024) Femininity in Kiki’s Delivery Service. Medium. https://medium.com/@aurelievirginiepetit/femininity-in-kikis-delivery-service-studio-ghibli-1989-54e16a656d31

Aurélie Petit (2023) Filmography of Sexual and Erotic Animation Films. Medium. https://medium.com/@aurelievirginiepetit/sexual-and-erotic-animation-films-3fb46f63c875

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