Hooking up mildly or wildly

IF 1.6 Q2 COMMUNICATION Journal of Language and Sexuality Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI:10.1075/JLS.17002.ADA
Brian L. Adams-Thies
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Abstract

This article explores a specific linguistic intervention ("mild to wild”) that occurs in online communication on gay internet hook up sites. It argues that despite supposed knowledge as to what “mild to wild” means, we must look at this linguistic intervention within specific socio-cultural contexts. Without context, the actual uses and meanings of “mild to wild” might be misunderstood while our knowledge of sexual communities of practice risks falling squarely into stereotypes. For this community of practice, “mild to wild” creates a linguistic opportunity for men interested in having sex with other men to be able to define their desires and further explicate how their sexual interaction will take place while also negotiating expectations and assumptions of male-male sex within increasingly homonormative strictures. Data was gathered from over four years of ethnographic research and is presented from a cultural and anthropological linguistics perspective. The phrase “mild to wild” is used by these men in order to: (1) contest supposed concrete categorizations of sexuality and desire; (2) to create highly contextual intimacies and organizations of desire through online-linguistic interaction; and (3) to alleviate detrimental social effects attached to specific unsafe and variant sex practices. The author argues that this community of practice is an example of how new socialities develop within homonormativities designed to control queer sex and desire.
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这篇文章探讨了同性恋网络交友网站上在线交流中发生的一种特定的语言干预(“温和到狂野”)。文章认为,尽管人们对“温和到野性”的含义有着假定的了解,但我们必须在特定的社会文化背景下看待这种语言干预可能会被误解,而我们对性实践社区的了解有可能直接陷入刻板印象。对于这个实践社区来说,“温和到狂野”为有兴趣与其他男性发生性关系的男性创造了一个语言机会,让他们能够定义自己的欲望,并进一步解释他们的性互动将如何发生,同时也在越来越同形的限制下协商对男性性别的期望和假设。数据是从四年多的民族志研究中收集的,从文化和人类学语言学的角度呈现。这些男人使用“温和到狂野”这个短语是为了:(1)对性和欲望的具体分类提出质疑;(2) 通过在线语言互动创造高度语境化的亲密关系和欲望组织;以及(3)减轻特定的不安全和变异性行为所带来的有害社会影响。作者认为,这个实践社区是一个例子,说明了新的社会关系是如何在旨在控制酷儿性和欲望的同源性中发展起来的。
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Journal of Language and Sexuality
Journal of Language and Sexuality Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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