Digital intimacies in motion: Redefining sex in tourism
本文通过研究男同性恋游客在旅行中使用Grindr等平台进行的数字性休闲活动，提出了一种包含数字参与、情感投入、结果和再参与四阶段的递归模型，重新定义了旅游中的性体验。
This paper redefines sex in tourism by introducing cyber-sexual leisure – digitally mediated and emotionally ambivalent erotic engagements that unfold through platforms like Grindr during travel. Drawing on interviews with queer male tourists, we examine how fragmented, gamified, and affectively ambivalent interactions produce symbolic erotic pleasure, even in the absence of physical sex. Moving beyond outcome-oriented and corporeal understandings, sexual experience is conceptualised as a processual continuum encompassing anticipation, interaction, and emotional aftermath. A recursive model is proposed comprising four stages: digital engagement, affective and erotic investment, emotional and/or physical outcomes, and re-engagement or withdrawal. These dynamics are intensified by tourism conditions – mobility, anonymity, novelty, and compressed time – while also shaped by inequalities structuring visibility, desirability, and vulnerability in contemporary tourism.