Swipe Right or Swipe Left? Sociological Perspectives of Digital Sexual Spaces

In our contemporary social world, digital spaces, including phone applications and dating websites, have become central sexual arenas. We have witnessed the emergence and burgeoning of a variety of digital sexual spaces where sexual actors can consume pornography, meet romantic and sexual partners, and explore fantasies and fetishes. From Christianmingle(dot)com to FeetFetishDating(dot)com, digital spaces have opened possibilities for new sexual desires, practices, intimacies, subjectivities, and identities. This session invites papers contributing to the empirical and theoretical sociological literature on sexuality and the erotic sphere in this digital age.