Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places.

Reiss, Ira L.; Humphreys, Laud

doi:10.2307/2093160

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“…The analysis explored how participants used 'imagined togetherness' as a strategy to flirt, projecting moments when they may be together as a way to move toward the organization of dates. Licoppe (2020) compares conversational practices in Tinder and Grindr, showing that Grindr users tended to re-play the sexual scripts of 'quick sexual hook-ups' commonly found in certain non-heterosexual cultures (Humphreys, 1975) and that they avoided an implication of longer-term emotional relationships. In contrast, heterosexual users in Tinder showed a preference for the scripts of 'sex within relationship', and as such oriented to more extended topics of conversation and to 'keeping the conversation going'.…”

Section: Relationship Initiation and Formation From A Conversation An...mentioning

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Relationship initiation and formation in post-match Tinder chat conversations

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Gibson²,

Mora-Rodriguez

2023

Discourse & Communication

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This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the communicative practices of unacquainted, matched Tinder users in chat conversations, in the process of developing a potential romantic relationship. Drawing on data from 157 Tinder conversations, the analysis explores the occasioning of talk about personal and intimate matters. The analysis shows that the interactional device through which the revelation of personal and intimate information is prompted is the ‘elicited self-disclosure sequence’. In cases in which a direct question fails to prompt a disclosure from the recipient, the ‘volunteered self-disclosure sequence’ emerges as an alternative to promote the revelation of further intimate information. We conclude by observing that relationships are ongoing routine accomplishments arising in mundane sociorelational contexts. The data are in Spanish and Catalan with English translations.

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Relationship initiation and formation in post-match Tinder chat conversations

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Mora-Rodriguez

2023

Discourse & Communication

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“…Aldrich, 2004; Wei, 2015). An increasing body of literature also examines how homosexuals queer the urban spaces through their radical spatial practices (Humphreys, 1975; Flowers et al ., 2000; Valentine and Skelton, 2003; Bell and Binnie, 2004; Kong, 2011, 2012; Anderson, 2018; Miège, 2020). Here, the urban has been assumed as ‘queer's natural environment’ whereas the rural is ‘hostile to queer’ (Halberstam, 2005: 15).…”

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Towards a geography of queer temporalities: Time, space and rural–urban migrant gay men's exploration of sexuality in China

Luo

2022

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Building on the geography of sexualities and queer temporality studies, this research investigates the entanglement of sexuality, time and space with a case study of rural–urban migrant gay men in China. Based on participant observations and in‐depth interviews with 46 Chinese rural–urban migrant gay men, we identify three forms of queer temporality – queer biographical time, queer life stage, and queer clock time – emerging from Chinese gay men's life stories. We also demonstrate how these different forms of queer temporality are conditioned by and influence certain spatial practices among our informants. In doing so, this analysis contributes to the geographical research on sexuality by challenging the rural/urban dichotomy in the existing literature on the one hand, and exploring the possibilities for a geography of queer temporality on the other.

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“…Research on sex (used here as a verb) and desire is not necessarily new, nor is the focus on the methodology of these studies (for example, Humphreys's (1970) Tearoom Trade remains a hot topic). However, many scholars who are engaged in research of sex and sexuality are turning increased reflexive attention to the personhood in their work; such reflexive analyses often produce rich data that otherwise might be occluded about the social world (Jackson and Scott, 2007Scott, , 2010Scott, , 2017Jones, 2018;Kaspar and Landolt, 2016;Kulick and Willson, 1995).…”

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“…More research is being conducted to explore issues related to sex (understood as both a verb and a noun), working on specific methodological and ontological questions that importantly call into question the researcher's relationship to their own desires. Research specifically concerning sex and space is not necessarily new in and of itself (Humphreys, 1970), but recent interventions turn more focus on attempting to reflexively understand the use of the researcher's own body, desires, and emotions in the field (Kaspar and Landolt, 2016) in oft-termed "dirty work" (Irvine, 2014;Jones, 2018).…”

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Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)

Lauder

2022

Ethnography

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Feminist methodological interventions have advanced our understanding of reflexivities, leading us to question our own positions and intersections in relation to the field and those we study. More recent methodological contributions from queer authors add notions of fluid researcher identities and researcher erotics to reflexivities. However, such interventions frame reflexivity as a research practice applied to the research process or occurrences in the field. This article argues for a continuous, although never complete, use of reflexivity that addresses the researcher’s personal desires and orientations—there before the research started—that can influence what topics we study, the questions we ask, the methods and sites we choose, how we interact with others in the field, and our analyses. I use ethnographic data on gay and queer spaces in Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, to demonstrate the utility of this reflexivity, especially for sex research.

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Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places.

Cited by 14 publications

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Relationship initiation and formation in post-match Tinder chat conversations

Relationship initiation and formation in post-match Tinder chat conversations

Towards a geography of queer temporalities: Time, space and rural–urban migrant gay men's exploration of sexuality in China

Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)

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