Adam Barry D, Brennan David J, Davies Adam Wj, Collict David
Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 Canada.
Factor‑Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor St. W, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V4 Canada.
Sex Cult. 2024;28(5):2325-2343. doi: 10.1007/s12119-024-10231-1. Epub 2024 Apr 25.
Leading theories of the recent history of sexuality have pointed to trends toward detraditionalization and precarity in intimate relations, but also to democratization and innovation. This study grounded in 79 qualitative interviews with men seeking men online considers their experiences in light of these theories. The rise of dating apps has generated sexual fields that have shaped the sexual subjectivities of the current era in multiple ways. The narratives of study participants show much more than the hook-up culture that dating apps are best known for. They speak to experiences of superficiality, unmet expectations, and sometimes bruising intersections with hierarchies defined by age, race, body type, gender expression, and serostatus. Yet at the same time, they show a strong aspiration to sociability, social network building, and reach for a language of affiliation beyond the kin and friendship terms of the larger society. Generational comparisons indicate the shifting sexual subjectivities that dating apps have shaped by constituting virtual sexual fields.
近期关于性取向历史的主流理论指出，亲密关系呈现出去传统化和不稳定的趋势，但同时也存在民主化和创新的趋势。这项基于对79名在网上寻找男性伴侣的男性进行定性访谈的研究，根据这些理论来考量他们的经历。约会应用程序的兴起催生了一些性领域，这些领域以多种方式塑造了当代的性主体意识。研究参与者的叙述所展现的远不止约会应用程序最广为人知的约炮文化。他们谈到了肤浅的体验、未满足的期望，以及有时在由年龄、种族、体型、性别表达和血清学状态所定义的等级制度中遭受的挫折。然而与此同时，他们表现出对社交、建立社交网络的强烈渴望，并试图寻找一种超越更大社会中的亲属和友谊范畴的归属感语言。代际比较表明，约会应用程序通过构建虚拟性领域塑造了不断变化的性主体意识。
