Fluid bodies or bodily fluids

Bodily reconfigurations in cybersex

Bibliographic Data

ID2137291
AuthorsBrian Adams-Thies (Drake University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume1
Issue2
Pages179-205
Publication date2012-10-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.1.2.03ada
OpenAlexW2077817170
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Previous researchers discussing cybersexuality have been fascinated with the body-less-ness of cybersex. They have focused on the textual productions and (re)formations of the self that are allowed in this space independent of the body. Thus, the cyber becomes the space of transformation and fluidity of the self while the 'real' becomes the site of the material, concrete and unchanging body. I posit that dichotomous thinking about the cyber and the real and the text and the body produces an errant concept of the body. Cybersex is rarely a disembodied experience. Text-making cannot create itself free from the constraints of linguistic communities of practice in the "real" world. I challenge the notion that cybersexuality is a sexuality without the body and that the body in the 'real' world is stable. I focus specifically on how gay men describe the experience of the anus and anal sex as a means to better understand how the body becomes a site for linguistic marking and reference

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Physics · Sociology · Digital Communication and Language · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Philosophy · Psychology

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