Hot Connections
Why Sexual Platforms Matter
$95.74
- Paperback
228 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2026
Summary
A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual. What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of “the social” itself? Hot Connections explores three locally operating sexual platforms: the Swedish Darkside, used by kink and BDSM practitioners; the Estonian Libertine Center, used mainly by nonmonogamous people; and the Finnish Alastonsuomi, used for a wide variety of nude an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052061 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262052067 |
| Author: | Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
ENDORSEMENTS
“An intellectual vibrator—charged, pointed, and unafraid to go deep—Hot Connections is essential reading from iconic scholars of digital sexuality. It rewrites the rules on how we think about platforms, pleasure, and people.”
—Alexander Monea, author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
“Three talented researchers examine platforms too often overlooked—Hot Connections corrects how we’ve long understood social media and reveals the shape sociality takes when sex isn’t moderated away.”
—Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet
“Hot Connections is a genuinely innovative study of what makes sexual social platforms ‘social.’ It offers deep insights into the evolving ethics of digital intimacies in a climate of data extraction and deplatforming of sexual cultures.”
—Kath Albury, author of Everyday Data Cultures and Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Jenny Sundén
Jenny Sunden is Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a coauthor of Who’s Laughing Now? and Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures.
Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Carnal Resonance and Dependent, Distracted, Bored, as well as a coauthor of NSFW and Who’s Laughing Now?
Katrin Tiidenberg is Professor of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University, Estonia. She is a coauthor of Tumblr and Sex and Social Media and the author of Selfies.
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