Hierarchy of Desire: Partner Preferences and Social Identities of Men Who Have Sex with Men on Geosocial Networks.
Men who have sex with men (MSM) increasingly rely on geosocial networking (GSN) smartphone applications ("apps"), such as Grindr and Scruff, to form sexual networks. Using social identity theory as a framework, the present study employed images to offer a quantitative assessment of bias in favor of...
| Published in: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 630 - 649 |
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