To fuck the future is to utilize technoscientific means toward erotic ends.

excitement of witnessing the failure can't account for the degree and intensity of speculation and commentary.

digital DIY porn cultures render more sexual realities and possibilities “on/scene.

elaboration of networked bodies and desires.

Given the ways in which gay men formed intimate networks in the context of state monitoring and repression, as well as the social backlash Jacobs describes above, one might argue that gay men helped to innovate today's ubiquitous social networking.

look to the virtual for other kinds of redemption—

Intimacy is not itself a form of affect; rather it is more like affect's own immanence

forms of sex whose impropriety is intensified by their electronic mediation.

describing the virtual as a failure to be intimate also exposes the fault lines of intimacy