This essay is an exploratory study of the uses and gratifications of social networking
applications and sites widely utilized by gay men. Based on findings from six different focus …

Both the act and the commission of the act of sex have been transformed by technology. This
has in turn led to emerging research that seeks to consider online research methods and …

Is midlife for gay men the start of a slide towards the rejection, exclusion and misery
associated with the spectre of the lonely old queen? Whilst exclusion is possible as gay men …

Abstract Using Performance Theory as an explanatory basis, this essay explicates the
performance of gender in social media beginning with the gendered history of digital …

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life,
this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health …

The current study investigated a subgroup of 112 men who have sex with men who use the
Internet in search of partners for sex venue encounters to understand what types of venues …

Scholarship on gay bars/'villages' has overshadowed study of 'homospaces'(gay fields of
existence) less available/inaccessible to a wider public–websites, saunas and …

This paper explores the shifting dynamics of what constitutes a contemporary social
movement and the pros and cons that emerge after movements have gone online. This …

COVID-19 has transformed the way we live our lives, and sex has been a significant element
of that transformation. Gay male sex in the UK has faced the most significant (re) …

This study investigates how men who have sex with men (MSM) discern, discuss, and defy
issues of surveillance in the context of casual, public sex—also known as cruising—and how …