1st Edition
Tech, Sex and Health The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy
Introduction—Tech, Sex and Health: The Place of New Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Human Intimacy
Jennifer Power and Andrea Waling
1. Traversing TechSex: benefits and risks in digitally mediated sex and relationships
Jennifer Power, Lily Moor, Joel Anderson, Andrea Waling , Alexandra James, Nicole Shackleton, Anne-Maree Farrell, Elizabeth Agnew and Gary W. Dowsett
2. Regulating tech-sex and managing image-based sexual abuse: an Australian perspective
Anne-Maree Farrell, Nicole Shackleton, Elizabeth Agnew, Samantha Hopkins and Jennifer Power
3. Rethinking Risk in Adults’ Engagement with Sexual Digital Imagery
Jennifer Power, Gary W. Dowsett, Andrea Waling, Alexandra James, Lily Moor, Nicole Shackleton and Anne Maree Farrell
4. Dating apps as public health ‘problems’: cautionary tales and vernacular pedagogies in news media
Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker, Tinonee Pym and Paul Byron
5. ‘I don’t think my torso is anything to write home about’: men’s reflexive production of ‘authentic’ photos for online dating platforms
Andrea Waling, Michael Kehler, Jennifer Power, Lucille Kerr and Adam Bourne
6. Building community, one swipe at a time: hook-up apps and the production of intimate publics between women
Jonathan Petrychyn, Diana C. Parry and Corey W. Johnson
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
Brooke Maria Hollingshead, Gary W. Dowsett and Adam Bourne
8. Data-driven intimacy: emerging technologies in the (re)making of sexual subjects and ‘healthy’ sexuality
Jacinthe Flore and Kiran Pienaar
9. Conceptualising the continuum of female genital fashioning practices
Alexandra James, Jennifer Power and Andrea Waling
10. The age of LARC: making sexual citizens on the frontiers of technoscientific healthism
Jenny Dyck Brian, Patrick R. Grzanka and Emily S. Mann
11. Producing bodies at risk in sexual health – an ethnographic comparative analysis between the combined oral contraceptive pill and pre-exposure prophylaxis in Switzerland
Marlyse Debergh
Biography
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).
