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Despite decreased rates of HIV infection in Winnipeg, syphilis incidence continues to rise. Communities of men who have sex with men shoulder much of this burden of illness. This qualitative study aimed to better understand the co-evolution of HIV and syphilis in Winnipeg through a series of interviews with gay men. Eighteen individuals were recruited through advertising in sexual health centres and through subsequent snowball sampling. Thematic interpretive analysis and inductive reasoning were used to find individual and shared group meanings. We found that HIV formed the contextual ground on which sexual decision-making was made, with three main themes emerging during interviews: 1) bacterial STI transience being contrasted against HIV permanence; 2) syphilis being‘dirty’versus HIV carrying significant stigma, though being spared the label of uncleanliness; and 3) the role of pleasure and intimacy in sexual health decision-making. Based on these findings, we recommend further exploration to develop more effective strategies around syphilis prevention, in particular with regards to the longer-term illness ramifications and its relationship to HIV transmission.

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- Qualitative methodology, HIV/AIDS, Gender and Sexuality, Syndemics
- by LAUREN WITNEY
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- Sex and Gender, Sexuality, Masculine Sexuality, Gender and Sexuality

How have biomedical innovation, regulation, and distribution of pharmaceutical testosterone prescribed to trans men created new forms of medical, community, and individual surveillance of masculinity and masculinization? Our systematic analysis of more than one hundred trans men's testosterone vlogs provides evidence for the production (and consumption) and reproduction of a very narrow set of hegemonic scripts about what a male body is, how it is achieved, and what it means to become a man. We find in this medium, multiple overlapping agents of surveillance: the state, the medical-industrial complex, the interactive loop between ourselves and our screens, the videographer and the trans man, the viewer and watched, hegemonic masculinity and its internalizations. We offer a critical feminist reading of the way that surveillance technologies produce a particular type of transmasculine subject with consequences for cultural understandings of gender nonconformity.

- by Lisa Jean Moore
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- Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Transgender Studies

Introduction: The idea that sexual activity can affect athletic performance has been a matter of conjecture for the past several decades. Aim: To provide preliminary data on whether sexual activity the evening before several physical exercise performance tests affects performance the next day. Methods: Eight participants (mean age, 28 ± 5 years) underwent several physical exercise performance tests on 3 different mornings, under 3 conditions: (i) no sexual intercourse the night before the tests (control), (ii) sexual intercourse the night before the tests, and (iii) yoga the night before the tests (randomized, single-blinded). Main Outcome Measures: Physical work capacity, lower body muscular power (standing vertical jump), upper body strength (handgrip strength), reaction time, and upper body musculoskeletal endurance (number of push-ups completed). Results: All participants experienced orgasm through intercourse. The more pleasurable the orgasm, the lower the systolic blood pressure (SBP) on the day after intercourse (Spearman's rho ¼-0.86; P ¼ .007). For every 2% increase in the total orgasm score, SBP decreased by 1 mmHg. Intercourse lasted 13 minutes; mean heart rate (HR) and caloric expenditure ranged from 88 to 145 beats/minute and from 53 to 190 kcal, respectively. There were no significant differences in the physical working capacity that elicited an HR of 170 beats/minute, number of push-ups completed, vertical jump height, grip strength, or reaction time across the 3 conditions.

- by Gerald S Zavorsky and +1
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- Sexual and Reproductive Health, Men's Sexuality, Human Sexuality

While studies have consistently observed an association between pornography use and depressive symptoms, data limitations have precluded understanding the nature of this relationship. Drawing on data from a representative panel study of American adults, and building on insights from stress process theory, this article demonstrates that the connection between pornography use and depressive symptoms hinges on (1) the (in)congruence between Americans' moral beliefs about pornography and their viewing practices and (2) gender. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses reveal that American men (not women) who believe viewing pornography is always immoral but watch it anyway are more likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to others who do not report this incongruence. Results also suggest the connection between viewing pornography and depressive symptoms is bi-directional, contingent on men's moral evaluation of its use. For male porn users who morally reject it, pornography use predicts depressive symptoms at low frequencies, likely stemming from cognitive stress or dissonance. For those who do not morally reject porn, however, only viewing it at the highest frequencies is associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, which suggests reverse causation―depressed men likely view higher levels of pornography as a coping aid, especially they do not view it as immoral.

- by Samuel Perry
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- Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Social Sciences

Balestracci’s new book is an essay of social, cultural and political history based on primary and secondary sources, that through the perspective of the history of sexuality reads again decisive moments of the seventy years history of the Italian Republic. The ‘1968’ is for instance in it both the year of the student’s revolts and the beginning of the sexual liberation and also the date of the first passional murder of the socalled Italian serial killer “mostro di Firenze” (monster of Florence). The Italian national history developed in the book in the frame of international and cultural-social changes of long period where the legacy of the Weimar Republic to the whole West appears to be central.

- by Fiammetta Balestracci
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- Cultural History, Gender History, Media History, Gender and Sexuality

In feminist research on sexual violence and victimization, the relationship between discourse and experience has often been at the forefront of intense debates. Poststructuralist scholars have emphasized that the discourses used to name sexual violence may in fact perpetuate the very problem they set out to describe, by freezing women into powerless positions of rapability. Others have likened this sort of argument to anti-feminist trivialization of the pervasively gendered experiential reality to which such discourses refer, highlighting that women’s victimization is not a discursive problem. In this article, I seek to carve out a path that cuts through such polarization by exploring the multifaceted dialectical relationship between, on one hand, gendered discourses on sex and sexual violence and, on the other, people’s reported experiences of these phenomena and, in particular, of the ‘grey area’ between sex and sexual violence; I do this by analysing autobiographical stories from the influential Swedish campaign #prataomdet (#talkaboutit), which emphasized the need for a new language that can do justice to people’s experiences of sexual violence and the grey area between sex and sexual violence.

- by Lena Gunnarsson
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- Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Masculinity Studies, Sexuality

[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book summary in downloadable .doc] Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannah 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution. We now have access to a glut of larger-than-life objects, from candy to pornography to atomic weapons—that gratify these gut instincts with often-dangerous results. Animal biologists coined the term “supernormal stimuli” to describe imitations that appeal to primitive instincts and exert a stronger pull than real things, such as soccer balls that geese prefer over eggs. Evolutionary psychologist Deirdre Barrett applies this concept to the alarming disconnect between human instinct and our created environment, demonstrating how supernormal stimuli are a major cause of today’s most pressing problems, including obesity and war. However, Barrett does more than show how unfettered instincts fuel dangerous excesses. She also reminds us that by exercising self-control we can rein them in, potentially saving ourselves and civilization.

- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Military History, Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Ethology

Race, Class, and Gender is an interdisciplinary course that touches on the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, science, literature, media, and art to introduce students to the study of identity in American society. Placing experiences at the center of interpretation, Race, Class, and Gender introduces basic concepts and perspectives in the field of Women's and Gender Studies. Focusing on contemporary issues (with reference to historical trends), we will examine lived experience with an emphasis on how gender interacts with other identities (in particular, race, class, ability, and sexuality). The central goal is to foster critical thinking about how interlocking systems of racism, sexism, ableism, and heterosexism shape who we are, based on our individual social location and experiences of privilege and oppression. We will also examine how individuals have resisted inequality, worked to create new systems of change, and engaged in transformational and liberatory politics. Specific topics include beauty ideals, body image, non-binary gender identity (trans* and intersex), sexuality, gender violence, reproductive justice, birthing practices, and disability. We will place these contemporary issues within their historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts, and students will have the opportunity to engage in active discussion on a daily basis.

- by Sarah Ray Rondot
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- Gender Studies, Sex and Gender, Gender History, Language and Gender
- by Vulca Fidolini
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- Sociology of Sport, Religion and Sexuality, Anthropology of the Body, Sexuality
- by Angelika Koch
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- Japanese Studies, Gender Studies, Early Modern History, Gender History

Lupta fiecarui baiat - Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey

- by Angelika Koch
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- Cultural History, Japanese Studies, Gender Studies, Early Modern History

MERGING IS SEX OBVIOUSLY, NORMAL MERGING IS KNOWING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF BOTH BEINGS, NO YOU OR I = ONENESS, THE TWO ANUs MERGE – IF ONE IS AN ATTACK, THEN THE ORIGINAL ANU BECOMES SMALLER, DUMBER AND WEAKER, WHICH IS WHAT IS... more

- by MIKE EMERY
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- Critical Theory, Sex and Gender, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Abuse
- by Jay L McCauley Bowstead
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- Discourse Analysis, Cultural Studies, Men's Studies, Media Studies
- by Kaustav Bakshi
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- Gender Studies, Queer Studies, South Asian Studies, Sexuality
- by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
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- Religion, Psychology, Metaphysics, Sex and Gender
- by Jie Liang Lin
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- Gender Studies, Men's Sexuality, Digital Ethnography, Digital Anthropology

Our new study published in the International Journal of Men’s Health showed that circumcised men have a 4.5 times greater chance of suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) than intact men, revealing what appears to be a significant acquisition factor. Robert S. Van Howe, M.D., M.S., FAAP and I found a surprisingly strong secondary finding between circumcision and ED in our survey of 300 participants (OR = 4.53, p=.0058). It was outside the scope of our article to delve deeper into this topic, but our finding does raise some questions: Are there other studies showing a similar connection? What could be the underlying cause?

- by Dan Bollinger
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- Male Circumcision, Men's Health, Men's Sexuality, Erectile dysfunction

What is the true monetary cost of male infant circumcision in the United States? Would you believe $3.6 billion dollars a year? Let’s itemize it based on 1,200,000 circumcisions in the year 2012, including surgical, hospital, repair, and... more

- by Dan Bollinger
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- Gender Studies, Sex and Gender, Sexuality, Men's Health

In September 2015 a well-publicised Campaign Against Sex Robots (CASR) was launched. Modelled on the longer-standing Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the CASR opposes the development of sex robots on the grounds that the technology is being developed with a particular model of female-male relations (the prostitute-john model) in mind, and that this will prove harmful in various ways. In this chapter, we consider carefully the merits of campaigning against such a technology. We make three main arguments. First, we argue that the particular claims advanced by the CASR are unpersuasive, partly due to a lack of clarity about the campaign’s aims and partly due to substantive defects in the main ethical objections put forward by campaign’s founder(s). Second, broadening our inquiry beyond the arguments proferred by the campaign itself, we argue that it would be very difficult to endorse a general campaign against sex robots unless one embraced a highly conservative attitude towards the ethics of sex, which is likely to be unpalatable to those who are active in the campaign. In making this argument we draw upon lessons from the campaign against killer robots. Finally, we conclude by suggesting that although a generalised campaign against sex robots is unwarranted, there are legitimate concerns that one can raise about the development of sex robots.

- by John Danaher and +1
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- Business Ethics, Robotics, Cultural History, Economic History

Il testo che segue raccoglie alcune riflessioni né sistematiche né esaustive. La parte centrale del testo è un discorso pubblico tenuto a Pistoia qualche anno fa. Ho deciso di rendere pubbliche queste riflessioni – nonostante siano una primissima bozza – perché ai temi accennati in queste pagine ho fatto riferimento nel capitolo È possibile una teologia del genere? del libro Sguardi sul genere (Mimesis 2017, a cura di P. Rigliano); in quella sede adombravo la necessità di sviluppare una fenomenologia che potesse rendere conto dei diversi desideri sessuali. Nelle pagine che seguono sviluppo in forma embrionale quell’idea.

- by Damiano Migliorini
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- Christianity, Psychoanalysis, Developmental Psychology, Gender Studies

Le sexe est chose mentale. Il colore notre vision du monde, il transforme la connaissance que nous en avons, et en partie même il la fonde. La sexualité implique un rapport spécifique au vrai, au beau, au bien, autrement dit, un savoir, une esthétique, une éthique, une politique.
Or, quand le désir change, la vision du monde en est changée. Que sait un gai sur le monde ? Quelle expérience en a-t-il ? Qu’en ignore-t-il ? Trois mille ans de littérature occidentale ont exploré l’intellect hétérosexuel et la vision du monde qui l’accompagne. Il est temps d’explorer une autre face, celle du savoir gai, celle de l’étrangement.
Il ne sera pas seulement question d’amour, de drague, de fantasmes, de pornographie et de taille du pénis, mais aussi de Platon, Vélasquez, Proust, Oshima et Cat Stevens, des chauffeurs de taxi, des colonies de vacances, du mariage pour tous, de la longévité des chats et des baleines bleues. De la vie érotique de l’auteur, et de celle de Jésus également. Bref, de la vie tout court.
Lecteur, tu en apprendras ici beaucoup sur l’homosexualité, sur l’hétérosexualité, mais d’abord et surtout sur toi-même. Tu es le sujet de ce livre, toi et ton désir.

- by William Marx
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- Psychology, Psychoanalysis, French Literature, Gender Studies

Introductory courses dealing with sex, gender and sexuality are usually quite biased, going as far as to deny the reality of biology. Drawing on the Catholic tradition (Aquinas), this article presents an accessible argument aimed at... more

- by Marc Champagne
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- Discourse Analysis, Religion, Comparative Religion, History
- by Pascal Eitler
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- History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

A very short review of Jonathan Dollimore's "Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault."

- by Dr Ian McCormick
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- Cultural Studies, English Literature, Literature, Gender and Sexuality
- by Matthew Gutmann
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- Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Anthropology, Sex and Gender

Recent research demonstrates that more men, particularly those in couple relationships, are using vibrators to enhance sexual pleasure (Reece et al., 2009; 2010). However, men’s perceptions of vibrator use with a partner have rarely been investigated. The purpose of this analysis was to study men’s perceptions of the impact of vibrator use on their and their partner’s sexual pleasure and sexual satisfaction. Forty-nine men, aged 25-58, in heterosexual relationships responded to a series of open-ended questions regarding their experience of incorporating a couple-oriented vibrator into their sexual repertoire over a 6-week period. Thematic anaysis was used to analyze the data. The data were organized into four themes: physical pleasure, awareness of partner’s experience, novelty and variety, and intimacy. Men’s experiences of sexual pleasure were tied to perceptions of their partner’s pleasure and to the addition of novelty and variety in sexual encounters.

Resumen. Objetivo/Contexto: La investigación aborda las transformaciones en las masculinidades heterosexuales en Argentina y México en la segunda mitad del siglo XX poniendo el foco en aquellos varones de clases populares que penetraban a maricas, jotas y gais, sin dejar por esto de considerarse y ser considerados por sus pares como heterosexuales. Sostendremos que las relaciones entre maricas y varones heterosexuales jóvenes de clases populares eran frecuentes, no eran objeto de estigmatización en la comunidad de pares y no generaban una identidad diferencial para los participantes heterosexuales. Metodología: Se analizan historias de vida y entrevistas en profundidad, así como un amplio corpus de documentos históricos diversos conformados por materiales autobiográficos, etnografías, expedientes judiciales y prensa organizacional, no considerados antes conjuntamente. A su vez, se discute críticamene la forma en que académicos y activistas del periodo percibían el sexo entre hombres y las identidades que esas relaciones llevaban aparejadas. Originalidad: El trabajo se asienta en un enfoque comparativo que reconstruye procesos históricos y sociales regionales a mediano plazo. Se indaga por primera vez el problema desde la perspectiva de estos varones heterosexuales en el pasado, con base en un corpus documental novedoso y diverso. Conclusiones: En oposición a las interpretaciones prevalecientes, el trabajo desarrolla una hipótesis contraintuitiva: dado que estas prácticas no sólo no ponían en jaque la heterosexualidad del miembro activo de la pareja, sino que además constituían un dispositivo mediante el cual estos reafirmaban su heterosexualidad viril, estas relaciones entre hombres no sólo no pueden ser consideradas homosexuales, sino que constituyen además un dispositivo medular en la producción de la heterosexualidad.

- by Santiago Joaquin Insausti and +1
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- Queer Studies, Working Classes, Masculinity Studies, Gender and Sexuality
- by Michael Flood
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- Masculine Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, Men's Sexuality, Masculinities

Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Fall 2018

- by Troy Bordun
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- Sociology, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Social Sciences

A book on men's sexuality, especially men's sexual frigidity, their rejection of their own bodies, and their attraction to young girls in their early teens and school uniforms. This book has provoked a variety of emotional reactions from... more

- by Masahiro Morioka
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- Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Queer Studies, Applied Philosophy
- by Matthew Gutmann
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- Health Sciences, Contraception, Gender and Sexuality, Global Health
- by Gabrielle Smith
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- Gender Studies, Fashion design, Fashion Theory, Gender and Sexuality

This paper explores how a formal strategic planning process will help Intactivism succeed. In particular, it explores what we have learned from experts on social change movements regarding the “tipping point” phenomenon—that moment in time when an idea previously thought to be radical or controversial becomes a mainstream issue, and the movement’s alternative is suddenly accepted by the general public.

- by Dan Bollinger
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- Men's Studies, Men's Sexuality, Children's Rights, Strategy

This chapter discusses the multiple realities of MOREs between
predominantly heterosexual-identifying women and bisexual-identifying or behaving men. Via an overview of the available research, this chapter
explores and demonstrates how these relationships provide insights
their border existences, boundary demarcations, devastating oppressions, exhilarating affirmations, and innovative negotiations in order to construe or dismantle, maintain or regain healthy sexual and emotional relationships between, within, and beyond sociocultural sites of identity and belonging.

- by maria pallotta-chiarolli
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- Masculine Sexuality, Marriage & Family Therapy, Men's Sexuality, Family

Same-sex relationships among the incarcerated are regarded to be an intensely neglected field of inquiry for scholars (Hensley and Tewksbury 2002). Yet, pervasive misconceptions have raised alarms among the public about tales of rampant inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization, and male and female inmates being forced into same-sex relations. These myths about the sexual behaviors of the incarcerated have further perpetuated folklores to be acquired by the public. Emerging research has uncovered the true reality about inmates' expressions of sexuality during their incarcerations. Coerced sexual behaviors do occur between both the male and female incarcerated populations, but so do consensual and bartered sexual acts between inmates, staff, and visitors (Hensley and Tewksbury 2002; Warren, Jackson, Loper, and Burnette 2010). In whole, there exist three forms of sexual interactions in correctional facilities: bartered sex, coerced sex, and consensual sex. Thus, the inmate subculture is not solely defined by coerced sexual encounters, but rather there are alternative forms of sexuality that inmates can express when incarcerated. Of note, due to the sensitive nature of the topic at hand, we decided to differentiate legal and personal consent. Hereafter, the term consensual will reflect legal consent, which is also a term frequently used by scholars and we will continue to honor their terminology use, whereas the use of the term willing will reflect personal consent. Sexual identity is one such expression that is rather fluid in the inmate subculture. Inmates may vacillate between identifying as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual (Hensley, Tewksbury, and Koscheski 2002; Hensley, Tewksbury, and Wright 2001). Longer incarceration periods result in a greater likelihood to report same-sex sexual relations and/or self-identification as a homosexual (Hensley et al. 2002). Regardless of an inmate's sexual orientation, same-sex encounters can generate into meaningful relationships among inmates. Nevertheless, inmates still have a continued risk of being a victim of rape and/or sexual assault (Tewksbury and Connor 2014), most notably by persons that hold the institutional power of the correctional facility (Warren et al. 2010). However, contrary to popular belief, incidents of unwanted sexual encounters are rather rare occurrences in correctional facilities (Beck, Berzofsky, Caspar, and Krebs 2013). In response to public concerns, government bodies become involved in the study of sexual victimization reported by inmates. The passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003 was a catalyst in the evolution of prison rape research that examined and dissected sexual expressions exhibited by inmates. Consequently, scholarly works have offered a grander perspective of the sexual lifestyle of male and female inmates that have operated inside the inmate subculture, and inmates' persistent issues with sexual victimization, especially from staff members. This chapter is separated into five sections. The historical aspects of prison sexuality are detailed in the first section. The second section entails a discussion of how scholars promoted

- by John C Navarro
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- Sexuality, Gender and Sexuality, Men's Sexuality, Sexuality And Culture

This essay examines gender, sexuality, and society through the lens of apocryphal sexual acts, specifically the Donkey Punch, the Cleveland Steamer, and the Houdini. Although these acts are so disgusting, degrading, dangerous, or even deadly that they seem to exist in name only, such imagined acts serve a normative function, providing limits on not only sexuality, but also on the kinds of individuals worthy of such acts.

In recent years, location-based real-time dating apps like Grindr and Tinder have assumed an increasingly pivotal role in brokering socio-sexual relations between men seeking men and have proven to be fertile ground for the study of identity negotiation and impression management. However, current research has given insufficient consideration to how various contextual elements of technology use interact with one another to shape self-presentation behaviour. Through analysis of interview data, we found impression construction on these apps reflects tensions between authentic depiction of the self-concept and self-enhancement via deception. Whether and the extent to which one engages in deception depends on how a number of technological affordances, platform-specific community norms and userbase characteristics interact with each other. Selfpresentational choices were a result of a combination of deception facilitators, for example, belief in the normalcy of lying, and constraining determinants, for example, the expectation of brokering physical connection. Impression construction determinants also interact in ways where the influence of any one element is dependent on others. This was most plainly evidenced in the interactions between stigma management concerns, the affordances of audience visibility/control and locatability and common ground reinforcing social hierarchy.

- by Corey Johnson
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- Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Mobile Technology, Gender and Sexuality