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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.