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narrated both a deeply individual response and an ethical philosophy orientated to a larger social world.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

In the aggregate, Andrew’s therapeutic language took on a sinister edge. It was communicating a commitment that was not real, a profound interest in the internality of women that was then used to manipulate them.

Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control

refusal of fixed-object choices in favor of a fluidity of erotic identification,

Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

centrally concerned with sex and the ways it supports or disorganizes coupled and communal intimacies.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

situated his online activities within a confessional model of culpability in which his transgressive erotic exchanges

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

one in which he emerges as less an innocent straight boy corrupted by tech savvy queer predators than as an equally tech savvy, ambitious, sexually flexible, self-interested, and even cynical entrepreneur.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

continues to make available transformative contacts and encounters, as well as precipitating a more expansive theoretical and political imagination.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

encounter and rework historical antecedents particular to queer, especially gay male, sociality: chiefly cruising and hooking up.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

about erotic innocence that form part of the larger discourse of reproductive futurism: