Hypersexual City

Geography and sexuality: Why space (still) matters

“…Most introductory textbooks in the discipline now pay at least lip service to the idea that sexuality is as fundamental to the making of human geographies as is ethnicity, class, gender or age; geography dictionaries and encyclopaedias are littered with entries drawing attention to the specific contributions made to geography by the inclusion of the consumption that occurs in highly visible ‘pan-sexual’ clubs, adult entertainment spaces and sex shops that are more polymorphously perverse. However, at the same time that many are emphasizing the ‘new geographies of hypersexuality’ (Kalms, 2017), there is also an emergent interest in the geographies of asexuality, singledom, and loneliness (Wilkinson, 2014), which reminds us that geographies of sexuality are not just concerned with the way that sexuality is made visible in obvious, erotic ways, but also those ‘quiet’ spaces and moments that help reproduce sexual norms and cultural standards (Phillips, 2006).…”