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O estudo tem por objetivo analisar as discursividades produzidas pelos(as) usuários(as) do aplicativo Grindr, este usado principalmente por homens em busca de relações, sobretudo sexuais, com homens. A pesquisa foi realizada no período de setembro de 2021 a julho de 2022, em Campo Grande, MS. Assim, apoiando-se nos amplos processos pedagógicos provenientes dos discursos circulantes no Grindr, vemos este como sendo um artefato abundante em conteúdo. A intenção, a partir desse conhecimento, foi de estar no aplicativo para compreender o que se aprende, ensina, descobre e transforma ao se entender as dinâmicas que medeiam as discursividades no Grindr enquanto estratégias que se disseminam por meio dos discursos. Para tal, criamos uma conta gratuita para obtenção de prints, e, a partir desses, foi possível observar três dimensões pedagógicas presentes nas discursividades. Dessas, a primeira faz menção às dinâmicas do cancelamento, que perpassa todas as dimensões; a segunda revela a masculinidade hegemônica marcada pela discrição, pelo sigilo e pelo homem com jeito de homem que converge à norma. Por fim, a terceira dimensão alcança as rupturas presentes nas discursividades contra-hegemônicas, dissidentes à norma.

In recent years, HIV treatment has become so effective that a patients' viral load can become so low that it is undetectable, which in turn reduces the risk of viral transmission to zero (Eisinger, Dieffenbach, & Fauci 2019). At the same time, for people who are HIV negative, the use of the medical regimen "pre-exposure prophylaxis," or "PrEP," reduces the risk of HIV infection by 92%-99% (Anderson et al. 2012). The PrEP regimen typically targets people at high risk of HIV infection and consists of taking HIV medicines either daily or through event-based dosing ("PrEP" 2019). These innovations are celebrated as key in the fight against AIDS, and rightfully so. They offer hope to affected populations, that they might engage with the AIDS epidemic in a way that is more commemorative than somatically threatening. Thus, modern HIV medication promises access to a gay subjectivity that expands notions of sustainability otherwise made unavailable by the AIDS crisis. This access potentially alleviates stigma and enables a reorientation of mostly gay male sociability and politics across and beyond the viral serostatuses of "HIV negative" and "HIV positive." Such medical innovation does not erase the trauma of the AIDS crisis. Such trauma continually impacts gay cultures today, in the minds and on the bodies of survivors, and more broadly by informing how gay communities imagine gay sexual sociability to be virtuous, sustainable, transgressive, dangerous, etc. Contemporary gay sexual sociability is informed by the socio-technical interventions of condom use, regular STI testing, and sexual serosorting, practices that were negotiated during and after the AIDS crisis in order to retain access to gay somatic pleasures. These practices of vitality are not individual endeavors but rather socially negotiated responses, put in place and governed through an ethic of collective, cultural sustainability (Rofes 1998). The biomedical potential of this medical regimen, in the same way antiretroviral therapy (ART) made HIV positivity a manageable chronic condition, should and does invite hope. But the fact remains that while attitudes seem to be changing, there is a persistence of wariness and negative responses to the emergence of sexual cultures informed by the affective affordances of PrEP. These affective orientations do not align with the phantasmagoric futures that PrEP makes available; rather, they seem to reinstall modes of relationality based on fear of HIV. It is this persistence or "temporal drag" (Freeman 2010, 95) that this chapter concerns itself with. To further understand the relationship between the lingering fear of HIV and new prevention methods, it is necessary to interrogate how the HIV crisis materialises for gay people and their communities. Additionally, it is crucial to understand how affective sedimentations impact contemporary material and structural innovations that sustain, support, and change gay sexual sociability beyond and after the time/s of the crisis. Drawing from queer theory (Freeman 2010) and HIV/AIDS sociology (Decoteau 2008; Gordon, 2008; Gill-Peterson, 2013; Petrus, 2019), we take hauntology (Derrida 2006) as a useful framework for a diachronic and synchronic analysis of how past and present materials and ideas affect and might affect those living "post crisis" (Race 2001; Kagan 2018), particularly when the effects of the AIDS crisis (for some) manifest as distant affective echoes. This chapter leans on Derrida's (2006) concept of "hauntology" to develop what we call a "viral hauntology" coterminous with the development of new HIV prevention methods. This affect-driven intervention closely examines how the affective economies of circulation, as described by Sara Ahmed (2004), are embedded in current material infrastructures of HIV prevention technologies. We argue that viral hauntology allows us to think deeply about how 'old' technologies and their social lives fold over and into new ones, and how the folding process 'drags' in order to imagine other, more inclusive, gay socio-sexual futures. In this chapter, we think about HIV/AIDS not only as a somatic condition affecting a body, but also as a socio-technical matter. With HIV/AIDS's production of virality, certain norms and ideas about what constitutes "good" sexuality have emerged (Kagan 2018), norms that are then enforced, contested or modulated through the production and use of material infrastructures of gay sociability. Such materialist thinking is inspired by Kane Race's (2018) mobilization of Actor-Network-Theory, in which he considers how HIV/AIDS work on gay life through complex flows of chemical, digital, and communal infrastructures. Extending this research into the field of affect theory, we analyze two case studies to demonstrate how these infrastructures change through viral hauntology. The two case studies are used to unpack how socio-technical responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis play a role in the cultural and interfacial responses to the availability of the PrEP regimen. In the first case study, we examine the 'PrEP whore' figuration. We look closely at the circulation of anti-PrEP and anti-promiscuity sentiments, and how the condom's materiality and historicity—as a 'preferred' safer-sex technology for men who have sex with men (MSM)—is intertwined in this particular discourse. In the second case study, we compare how the gay hookup apps Grindr and Scruff (two of the most influential digital platforms for contemporary gay sociability) frame discussions of safer-sex practices and HIV status. In the following section, we will detail a conceptual framework for thinking about what could be called the affective 'haunting' of these HIV-impacted infrastructures, and how certain feelings 'haunt' interpretations of the HIV virus, the minds of gay people, and central infrastructures of gay life.

Charlie Kirk X post about iPhone storage reveals his top app is Grindr.

Rhode Island, New Zealand, and southern California recently reported sharp increases in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Health department officials stated that these increases appeared to be due to the more widespread use of social media like Tinder, Grindr, and Facebook, which allow users to readily connect with and meet others. The purpose of this study was to see if U.S. states that have more users of social networking sites, dating sites, and dating apps like Match.com, Ashley Madison, Our Time, Down Dating, Bumble, Zoosk, Hinge, Score, At First Sight, Plenty of Fish, Eharmony, Adult Friend Finder, Tinder, Grindr, and Facebook have more cases of STDs after controlling for population, race, age, income, education, and population density. It was found that states with more users of Match.com, OKCupid, and Down Dating had a larger number of cases of STDs, while states with more users of Our Time, Ashley Madison, Facebook, How About We, Hinge, Adult Friend Finder, Grindr, Bumble, Score, Tinder, and At First Sight had fewer cases of STDs. While social networking sites make it easier for individuals to be exposed to an STD since in-network individuals may share an STD, many sites either attract individuals who are not interested in a short-term sexual relationship or who take precautions to avoid contracting an STD.

Il presente saggio vuole proporre una riflessione storico sociale sui principali mutamenti che hanno interessato i "copioni" sessuali e, in particolare, le relazioni romantiche e il corteggiamento tra maschi omosessuali nell'età contemporanea. Attraverso il riferimento all'interazione dialettica esistente tra dimensione culturale, interpersonale e intrapsichica offerta dalla teoria dei copioni sessuali (sexual scripts), l'analisi presenta le principali trasformazioni della maschilità omosessuale e dei suoi copioni, dalla loro costituzione a partire da assunti prevalentemente "eteronormativi" sino allo sviluppo di copioni alternativi che mettono in discussione le norme di genere, i modelli intimi e sessuali normativi. Dopo una prima ricognizione teorica della prospettiva dei copioni sessuali, cercheremo di ricostruire le principali trasformazioni dei copioni culturali maschili omosessuali sino a problematizzare l'universalizzazione, socialmente costruita, della dicotomia sesso-amore. Pur considerando il modello di amore romantico eteronormativo come egemone, la complessità e polisemia delle relazioni amicali-amorose maschili gay ne mettono in discussioni i fondamenti, svelandone il carattere intrinsecamente politico ed ideologico. Per fare questo, useremo una ricerca sia qualitativa che quantitativa (mix-methods) che ha investigato l'uso di un'applicazione estremamente diffusa nel mondo maschile omosessuale di nome Grindr. Si cercherà di comprendere quali sono i comportamenti degli uomini gay italiani e se la ricerca di sesso occasionale sia preponderante o meno rispetto a relazioni più profonde, di tipo relazione-affettivo e amicale. Alle conclusioni è lasciato il compito di intersecare teoria e pratica e di comprendere, quindi, quali relazioni intercorrono nella maschilità gay.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 The Changing World of Online Male Sex Work -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Changing Social Meanings of Male Sex Work -- The Cleveland Street and Dublin Castle Scandals -- Male Prostitution in the Twentieth Century -- Research on Male Sex Work in Ireland -- The Rise of Neo-Abolitionism -- The Stories in This Book -- References -- 2 Discipline and Desire in the Pursuit of Physical Capital -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Changing Body Within Irish Culture -- The Meaning of Muscles -- Body Projects in a Late Modern Age -- Fitness 365 Gym -- Sexual Encounters in the Gym -- Reading the Body for Class Location -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Grindr, Hybridisation and the Life a Pop-Up Escort -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Gay Men, Dating and Sex -- Male Sex Work Online -- Grindr -- Showcasing the Body: Digitally Mediated Photos on Grindr -- Online, Real Time and Hybrid Space -- Disposable Bodies? Converting Physical Capital -- Sex, Money and Intimacy -- Touring -- Coercion -- GHB -- Exiting Sex Work-The Long Goodbye -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Instagram, Micro-Celebrity and the World of Intimate Strangers -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The New Digital Age -- Celebrity -- Intimate Strangers -- Micro-Celebrities -- Instagram -- Instagram and Male Sex Work -- Communicating Intimacy -- #Iwokeuplikethis -- #Aboutlastnight -- #Takemeback -- Managing Micro-Celebrity Interaction -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Netporn and the Amateur Turn on OnlyFans -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Pornographisation of Everyday Life -- Netporn and the Search for Authenticity -- Amazon Wish List -- Levels of Interaction on Instagram -- OnlyFans-'Where Selfies Pay' -- Content -- Income -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Conclusion: The Governance of Male Sex Work in Digital Cultures -- Abstract -- References -- Index.

In this study, we draw on sexual field theory to examine the structural nature of metropolitan Chinese gay men's mobile dating practices in a polymedia environment where one can access an array of dating apps. We define structures of desire in the sexual field as not only the transpersonal valuations of desirability but also the dominance of particular desires that coordinate actors' expectations and practices. Based on interviews with 52 urban Chinese gay men, we discuss the differing structures of desire hosted by four dating apps: Aloha, Blued, Grindr, and Tinder. Our analysis indicates that factors such as design features of dating apps, marketing strategies of app companies, and internet regulations have shaped the structures of desire by unevenly distributing the platform access to users across social classes and territorial divisions and (dis)enabling particular communicative practices in collective sexual life to different extents. The distance-sorted display of nearby users contributes to the predominance of immediate hook-ups on Blued and Grindr, while the matching mechanism of Aloha and Tinder functions as a "speed bump" and nourishes users' expectations for lasting connections. As Blued is the most popular gay dating app on the heavily guarded Chinese internet market, the diversity of its users drives away many metropolitan middle-class gay men who only desire their own kind. In comparison, Aloha, Grindr, and Tinder, with smaller user bases, are more specialized sexual sites where the dominant currency of sexual capital reflects the middle-class standard for "quality."

Intro -- A trans man walks into a gay bar -- Cover -- Title Page -- Of related interest -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note from Harry -- I'm Still Standin' (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) -- The Lesbian to Straight to Gay Man Timeline [AQ] -- Grindr -- Passing -- When a Stranger Called Me a Faggot -- A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar -- But Who Will Love You? -- The Ponds -- Dating -- My Knight in a Shining Jockstrap -- Sauna -- Men Can't Get Pregnant -- Fuck Me Then Fuck Off -- Lockdown -- Nightcall(s) -- Afterword -- Recommended Books -- Acknowledgements.

This book explores how the social and technical integration of mainstream social media into gay men's digital cultures since the mid 2000s has played out in the lives of young gay men, looking at how these convergences have influenced more recent iterations of gay men's digital culture. Focusing on platforms such as Gaydar, Facebook, Grindr and Instagram, Cassidy highlights the ways that identity and privacy management issues experienced in this context have helped to generate a culture of participatory reluctance within gay men's digital environments

Drone media: grounded dimensions of the US drone war in Pakistan / Lisa Parks -- Location-based services in Brazil: reframing privacy, mobility and location / -- Adriana de Souza e silva, Mariana S. de Matos-Silva and Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa -- Proximity awareness and the privatization of sexual encounters with strangers: the case of Grindr / C. Licoppe, C. A. Rivière and J. Morel -- Dispossession and the Right to The city / Margaret Kohn -- The space of architecture as a complex context / Richard Wittman -- Revolution reloaded: spaces of encounter and resistance in Iranian video games / Vit Sisler and Ebrahim Mohseni -- Democracy, protest and public space: does place matter? / Jeremy Németh and Evan Carver -- State, space, and cyberspace / David G. Post

Drone media: grounded dimensions of the US drone war in Pakistan / Lisa Parks -- Location-based services in Brazil: reframing privacy, mobility and location / Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mariana S. de Matos-Silva and Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa -- Proximity awareness and the privatization of sexual encounters with strangers : the case of Grindr / Christian Licoppe, Carole Anne Riviere and Julien Morel -- Dispossession and the right to the city / Margaret Kohn -- The space of architecture as a complex context / Richard Wittman -- Revolution reloaded : spaces of encounter and resistance in Iranian video games / Vit Sisler and Ebrahim Mohseni -- Democracy, protest and public space : does place matter? / Jeremy Nemeth and Evan H. Carver -- State, space, and cyberspace / David G. Post.

As an exploratory study of recent immigrants' uses of and experiences on gay geosocial dating platforms in the greater Copenhagen area, this chapter analyses profile texts on Grindr and PlanetRomeo, and gives voice to ten recent immigrants who use these platforms. The first research ques- tion relates to the ways users form offline social networks through these media; in this regard, gay dating platforms can be viewed as 'social media' not unlike mainstream social networking sites. The second research ques- tion relates to discussions of race and exclusion online; with regard to the ways some users transform their public profiles into soapboxes to broadcast political messages, these gay dating platforms – not unlike YouTube and Facebook – can also be spaces for social media activism.