Data-driven intimacy: emerging technologies in the (re)making of sexual subjects and 'healthy' sexuality.
Wireless sex toys are new technologies that enable sexual partners to connect remotely across long distances. Promoted as enhancing intimacy and pleasure as part of a healthy sex life, these devices buttress a 'sex for health' discourse which relies on the collection of intimate data purportedly use...
| Publicado en: | Health Sociology Review Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 279 - 294 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2020
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