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El presente ensayo investiga el regalo que el 24 de marzo de 2020 el sitio pornográfico Pornhub ofrece a los usuarios como entretenimiento durante el confinamiento por el coronavirus. Investiga las razones públicas de este presente y el incremento en el consumo de porno que se produce a raíz del aburrimiento que genera la cuarentena. Propone que si bien Pornhub procura protegernos del COVID-19, la reciprocidad a la que nos obliga su obsequio no es simétrica.
This essay investigates the gift that on March 24, 2020, the pornographic site Pornhub offers users as entertainment during the confinement due to the Coronavirus. It investigates the public reasons motivating the gift, and the increase in porn consumption caused by the boredom generated by the quarantine. It proposes that while Pornhub may intend to help protect consumers from COVID-19, the reciprocity its gift obliges us with is not symmetrical.

Introduction: Literature that returns to life and the mystique of age / Marta Cerezo Moreno and Nieves Pascual Soter -- Keeping appointments with the past : time, place, and narrative identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Anna MacDonald -- Haunted by a traumatic past : age, memory, and narrative identitiy in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin / Teresa Gilbert -- "The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" : traces of aging, memory, and sexuality in Daphne Du Maurier's "Don't look now" / Marta Míquel-Baldellou -- Ageing, agency, and autobiography : challenging Ricoeur's concept of narrative identitiy / Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch -- An appetite for life : narrative, time, and identity in Still mine / Pamela Gravagne -- Memory, dementia, and narrative identity in Alice Munro's "The bear came over the mountain" / Sara Strauss -- Horror mortis, structural trauma, and postmodern parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez -- Rewriting the story, restorying the self : Doris Lessing's experiments in life-writing / Ángeles de la Concha

This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume depart from two notions: the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, based on the idea that fiction makes life, and his definition of »trace« as the mark of time. By investigating the traces imprinted in a series of literary works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to make it unusable and assemble one of transformation and growth.