But I haven’t got a body to show

Self-pornification and male mixed feelings in digitally mediated seduction practices

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7375236
AutoresAmparo Lasen Díaz (0000-0003-4906-7890, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain), Antonio Garcia (0000-0003-4635-8449, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain), Antonio Agustín García García (0000-0001-8447-4649, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Año2015
Volumen18
Número5-6
Páginas714-730
Fecha de publicación2015-08-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363460714561720
OpenAlexW1850242547
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas19

Digital seduction, that is, practices of flirting mediated by social media and other digital applications, usually involves the display and exchange of self-portraits, commonly known as ‘selfies’, displaying nudity and self-pornification. This is a playful and complex presentation of the self, where making, displaying and sharing self-portraits reveal a complex gaze game. Participants are both the subject who takes pictures and the object pictured. They also put themselves in the place of the potential viewers, introducing their preferences, expectations and evaluations. This article presents the results of a preliminary research carried out in Madrid about these practices and the pleasures, gender displacements, disquiets and ambivalent feelings elicited in the case of heterosexual men

Art · Feeling · Flirting · Gaze · Object (grammar · Portrait · Presentation (obstetrics · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology