Tech, Sex and Health

This book presents recent sociological research investigating the intersection of technology, human sexuality, and health.The chapters delve into the interconnected themes of sex, health, bodies, and risk in relation to emerging technologies.

Autorentext

Jennifer Power is a Principal Research Fellow based at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on sexuality and sexual health, including sexual health among young people, LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing and quality of life among people living with HIV.

Andrea Waling is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Public Health, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research examines men, bodies, technologies, sex, and sexuality, and LGBTIQ+ health and well-being. Her most recent book is Exploring the Cultural Phenomenon of the Dick Pic (2023).

Inhalt

Introduction-Tech, Sex and Health: The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy 1. Traversing TechSex: benefits and risks in digitally mediated sex and relationships 2. Regulating tech-sex and managing image-based sexual abuse: an Australian perspective 3. Rethinking Risk in Adults' Engagement with Sexual Digital Imagery 4. Dating apps as public health 'problems': cautionary tales and vernacular pedagogies in news media 5. 'I don't think my torso is anything to write home about': men's reflexive production of 'authentic' photos for online dating platforms 6. Building community, one swipe at a time: hook-up apps and the production of intimate publics between women 7. 'It's like getting an Uber for sex': social networking apps as spaces of risk and opportunity in the Philippines among men who have sex with men 8. Data-driven intimacy: emerging technologies in the (re)making of sexual subjects and 'healthy' sexuality 9. Conceptualising the continuum of female genital fashioning practices 10. The age of LARC: making sexual citizens on the frontiers of technoscientific healthism 11. Producing bodies at risk in sexual health - an ethnographic comparative analysis between the combined oral contraceptive pill and pre-exposure prophylaxis in Switzerland