Adults

, 4, 27, 36, 38, 41, 58, 62, 76, 110, 166, 170

Advertising

, 10, 71, 105, 164–165

Affordances (platform affordances)

anonymity

, 12, 25, 28, 66, 67, 78, 118, 145, 168, 169

high level affordances

, 64

low level affordances

, 64

permanence, permanent

, 10, 110

spreadability

, 64

visibility

, 22, 24, 64, 78

Agency

, 20, 39, 41, 44, 71, 129–133

Aggression, aggressive

, 32, 102, 103, 104, 119, 160

Albury, Kath

, 42, 66, 128

Algorithms

classifying

, 68, 70

flagging

, 58, 60, 61, 70, 75, 77, 78

porn detecting algorithm

, 69

Alt accounts

alternative accounts

, 117–121, 128, 132, 169

shadow accounts

, 119

Alternative platforms

, 118, 128

Andalibi, Nazanin

, 126

Anonymity

anonymous

, 11, 12, 25, 26, 28, 29, 63, 66, 80, 121, 125, 126, 158, 168

broken windows

, 25

online disinhibition effect

, 25

Anxiety, trifecta of anxieties

, 31, 34, 61

Apps

mobile apps

, 7

tracking app

, 29

smartphone apps

, 1, 8, 31, 35, 42–44, 95

hook up apps

, 13, 29, 33, 101

Art, artists

, 13, 16, 43, 61, 65, 73, 77, 118, 119

Attention economy

, 27, 45, 48

Attwood, Feona

, 33, 42

Audience

, 39, 55, 61, 78, 96, 118, 123, 127–128, 133

imagined audience

, 108, 117, 120, 130, 156

Audience segregation

, 62, 117–118, 123, 124, 128

Australia, Australian

, 13, 37, 40–42, 52, 59, 61, 74, 89, 120, 130, 131, 143, 148

Automatic response

, 61

Banning

, 46, 49, 53, 72, 73

censorship

, 46, 53, 55, 59

content takedown

, 158

flagging

, 46, 49, 53, 72, 73

Baym, Nancy K

, 141

BDSM

, 58, 72, 80, 139, 153

Bdsmlr

, 72

Blogging

, 72, 76, 79, 80, 150

Blogspot

, 115

Body (embodiment)

breastfeeding

, 16, 55, 56, 158

breasts

, 54–56, 98, 109, 127, 129

butt

, 59, 94, 96–98, 101, 108

flat chested

, 60

mastectomy

, 56

natural breasts

, 54

penis, dick, erection

, 4, 5, 101–107, 158, 169

vulva

, 62, 63, 118

Body positive

, 77, 94, 118, 155

Body positivity

, 54, 104, 131

Bucher, Taina

, 64

Bumble

, 59

Canada, Canadian

, 24, 58, 143, 148

Communications Decency Act (CDA) (Section 230)

, 45, 46

Censorship (content takedown, flagging, moderation)

, 46, 53, 55, 59, 73

4chan

, 12

Charmed circle

, 23, 24, 47, 136

Cheating

, 38, 123

China, Chinese

, 8, 13

Clickworker

, 15

Cock shots

, 102, 103, 105, 106

Cohen, Stanley

, 31

College students

, 125

Comments

compliments

, 131

hate, vitriol

, 2, 6, 51, 86, 101, 160, 164, 165

Community/ies (sexual communities, LGBT community)

, 2, 17, 53, 55, 56, 58, 61, 71, 72, 90, 98, 133, 135–145, 158, 160–161, 170

Community Guidelines. See also User Guidelines

, 2, 55, 58, 61, 72

Community Standards

, 53, 55, 56

Compartmentalizing

, 117–121, 128, 132, 169

Consent

, 5, 99, 100, 166

Consuming practices. See also Sexual social media practices

, 82–85

Content moderation and community management

, 1, 52–54, 61, 63, 72, 75, 164, 165

Context

context collapse

, 11

contextual integrity

, 10, 11, 48, 124

Control

, 129–132

Couldry, Nick

, 81

Craigslist

, 2, 46

Creating/creative practices. See also Sexual social media practices

, 80–82, 85–88

Criminalization (sexting)

, 42, 55

Cum tributing

, 12, 98

Cybersex

, 28, 33, 37, 89, 91

camming

, 7

hot chat

, 89

mediated sex

, 18, 43, 47, 89, 92, 112

sex messaging

, 35, 65

sexting

, 35–42

Data

data security

, 8, 143, 164

datafication

, 29

metadata

, 77, 121, 123, 127, 133

stripping metadata (risk management)

, 87, 121

DeepFace

, 68

Deplatforming of sex 

, 77, 165

Deviance, deviant

, 17, 30

Dick pics

cyberflashing

, 102

stranger penis

, 103

unsolicited dick pic

, 101, 103, 104

welcome dick pic

, 101, 102

Discourse

, 3, 8, 12, 20, 22, 30, 36, 41, 44, 110

Discrimination

, 61, 138

Donath, Judith

, 142

DOPA

, 45

Döring, Nicola

, 29

Double standards. See also Misogyny; Shaming, slut shaming

, 60, 82, 88, 92

Ello

, 37, 65, 164

Embodiment

, 9, 28, 81, 111–114, 159

Emoji

, 2, 53, 113

Empowering exhibitionism

, 43

Erotica, erotic fiction, fanfiction

, 28, 85, 125, 152

Estonia, Estonian

, 13, 123

Ethnography

, 17, 138

Facebook

, 1, 10, 13, 44, 53, 55, 56, 62, 65, 68, 77, 109, 119, 120, 125, 143, 164, 165, 168

Fantasies

, 85, 89, 107, 113, 158

Farman, Jason

, 112

Features (platform features)

, 3, 64, 70, 78, 126, 144, 163, 167

Fetishes

, 15, 58

Fetlife

, 54, 55, 57–58, 64, 110, 115–116

Filtering

, 16

Flag, flagging

, 16, 18, 60, 61, 65, 70, 75, 77–78

Flirtationship 

, 154–155

Flirting

, 28, 80, 151, 154

Following

, 7, 40, 74, 79, 88, 130, 150, 153

Foucault, Michel

, 22

Friendster

, 115

Genderqueer, non-binary

, 114, 148

GeoCities

, 115

Giddens, Anthony

, 23

Gillespie, Tarleton

, 7

Goffman, Erving

, 108, 111, 117

Google

, 1, 2, 20, 36, 46, 55, 71, 93, 150

Google Drive

, 46

Gynodiversity blog

, 62, 63

Harassment

, 38, 101, 133, 160, 168, 170

Hashtag

, 16, 53, 54, 79, 84, 96, 97, 100, 143, 144

Helmond, Anne

, 27, 64

Heteronormative (mononormative)

, 3, 43, 47, 98, 136

Homosexuality. See also LGBT; Queer

, 32, 33, 34

Hook up apps

, 13, 15, 29, 101, 113, 125, 133, 152

Horny

, 2, 114

Hyperlink

, 16

Identity

compartmentalized

, 62, 71, 117, 124, 127, 128, 169

embodied identity

, 113

identity work

, 18, 71, 110, 111, 114–116, 118, 121, 124, 127, 129, 133, 169

impression management

, 111

multifaceted identity

, 111–114, 128

performance, performance of the self

, 4, 111, 116, 117, 151

persona

, 67, 106, 124, 127, 136

personal identity

, 136

self-presentation

, 23, 43, 88, 105, 111, 114, 115, 120, 136, 145, 168

sexual identity

, 35, 75, 110, 111, 114–116, 121, 129–133

sexual self

, 22, 29, 105, 110, 115, 117–118, 132–133

social identity

, 136

Image based sexual abuse

, 40, 45, 48

Instagram

, 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 53, 54, 59, 80, 86, 108, 109, 118, 119, 131, 145, 164

Intended audiences 

, 10

Interacting practices. See also Sexual social media practices

, 80–82, 92, 105, 151, 153, 154, 169

Intercourse (sexual intercourse, penis-in-vagina, anal sex, oral sex)

, 4-6, 24, 81

Interpretation, interpretative practices

, 69, 84, 97–100

Interviews

, 17

Intimacy, intimate relationship

, 29, 75, 99, 107, 121, 124, 125, 126, 129, 131, 133, 144

Kik

, 13, 35, 80

Kink

, 17, 55, 57, 80, 99, 101, 132, 137, 148

Krinsky, Charles

, 31

Labia Library

, 62, 63

LGBT 

, 23, 72, 136, 137, 145, 165

Lifecasters

, 43

Light, Ben

, 16, 128

Liking

, 79, 88, 114, 116–117, 151, 152

Line

, 13

LinkedIn

, 87, 109, 115, 116

LiveJournal

, 115

Lurking

, 80, 82

Markham, Annette

, 138

Marx, Gary

, 12

Masturbation

, 4, 32, 165

McKee, Alan

, 62

Media coverage, press coverage

, 2, 37, 38, 40, 42

Messenger

, 35, 65, 66, 164

Microsoft

, 46

Misogyny

, 102

Motivated definitions

, 5

Motivation

, 4, 6, 38, 83, 85, 86, 90, 95, 159

MUD, MOO, LambdaMoo

, 28, 113

Multi modal

, 7, 89

Multimodality

, 113

Multimodal communication

, 113

MySpace

, 44, 45, 115

Nagoski, Emily

, 163

Netflix

, 43

New Zealand

, 143, 148, 166

Nipples

Free the Nipple

, 55

female presenting nipple

, 72

Nissenbaum, Helen

, 11

Norms

cultural norms

, 3, 64, 68, 160, 167

normative

, 6, 20, 22, 30, 78, 98, 136

normativity

, 3, 60

patriarchal norms

, 43

sexual norms

, 22

social norms

, 10, 114, 167

NSFW

, 15–18, 46, 55–57, 61–66, 69–78, 82, 84–87, 94–98, 102, 116, 118, 146, 148, 161

Observation

, 17, 25, 80

Paasonen, Susanna

, 16, 27

Panic

media panic

, 31, 33, 42

moral panic

, 30–35, 37, 168

sexual panic

, 32, 33, 40

social media panic

, 42

technology panic

, 31, 32, 38

Partnered

, 38, 154, 161

Patreon

, 80

Pedophilia, pedophiles

, 32, 33, 41, 44

Perceived privacy

, 10

Perpetrators

, 20, 30, 40, 42

Perversion, pervert

, 22, 39, 161

Philippines

, 60

Picaboo

, 57

Pillowfort

, 72, 80

Plastic sexuality

, 23

Platform

platform affordances

, 52, 54, 65, 67

platform features

, 3, 60, 64, 167

platformization

, 27, 143

social media platform

, 2, 12, 17, 51–78

Pleasure. See also Sexual, pleasure

, 6, 17, 129, 169

Policy, policy change, nudity policy

, 3, 33, 55, 56, 132

Polyamorous, polyamory, non monogamous, ethical non monogamy

, 15, 24, 139, 158

Porn

, 13, 28, 69, 84, 124, 165

Posting

, 6, 36, 71, 127, 156, 158

Power

, 6, 8, 51, 129–132

Practice theory

, 80, 81

Pressure, coercion (sexting)

, 39

Privacy

, 8, 10, 44, 164, 169

Probyn, Elspeth

, 35

Profile (social media profile)

, 14, 79, 115, 123, 142

Pseudonymity, pseudonymous, pseudonym

, 12, 28, 123–128, 145–146, 168

Public

public life

, 21, 25–27, 48

public sex

, 29

public sphere

, 25, 26, 138

Queer. See also LGBT

, 13, 73, 137, 158

Race, racism

Asian

, 70

r/AsiansGonewild

, 71

r/IndiansGonewild

, 71

White

, 70

Reblogging

, 73, 151

Reddit

, 13, 98, 126, 145

Reddit Gonewild

, 70, 121

Regulation, governance

, 49, 169

Repressive hypothesis, repression

, 22, 23

Retweeting

, 64, 73

Revenge porn

, 37, 39, 40, 129

Rhetoric

, 21, 69, 137, 160

Ringrose, Jessica

, 39

Risk, danger

, 20

managing risk, risk management

, 158

Rubin, Gayle

, 23

Scientia sexualis

, 22

Searching

, 1, 6, 79, 81, 170

Secret

, 1, 125, 147

Self-awareness

, 88

Selfies

nudes

, 14

sexy selfies

, 36, 86, 93, 108, 159

social media photography

, 101

visual practices

, 14

Semantics (sexual semantics)

, 4, 5

Send nudes

, 93–101

SESTA/FOSTA

, 45, 46, 74, 164

Sex crime

, 33

Sex scandal

, 5

Sex talk

, 29

confessions

, 126

Sex work, sex workers

, 6, 72, 77, 165

Sexting, sex chat, inboxing

, 14, 35–47, 154

Sexual

citizenship

, 26–27, 48

content

, 52, 83, 87, 101, 164

education

, 29

identity

, 114–116, 129–132

intercourse

, 4

liberation

, 23

pleasure

, 6, 14, 81, 121

politics

, 146–160

semantics

, 4, 5

shame, shaming, sexual shame, gendered shame

, 36, 43, 127

Sexuality

, 22, 51, 110, 160

Sexualization (of children)

, 33

Sexual social media practices

compartmentalizing

, 117–128

consuming

, 80–92

creating

, 80–92

interacting

, 80–92

interpretation

, 60, 69, 80, 98

lurking

, 80, 82

omission, omitting

, 121–123

sharing

, 93, 96, 113

Sexy

heterosexy

, 70, 78

sexy body parts

, 105

Sexy pictures

n00dz

, 93

nudes

, 57, 60

revealing images

, 10

sexy photos

, 1, 98, 112, 128

sexy selfies

, 37, 93, 97, 122, 159

thirst traps

, 128

Shadowbanning

, 53

Sharesome

, 80

Sharing

, 11, 17, 79, 113, 144, 169

Shame, shaming

, 42–47

slut shaming

, 43

Single

, 14, 32, 78

Snapchat

, 8, 35, 57, 64, 125

Social capital

, 10, 45, 168

Social convergence

, 11

Social cooling

, 11

Social function

, 9, 84

Social media content

content takedown (banning, censorship)

, 61

sensitive content

, 65

sexual content

, 52, 58, 83, 101, 164

sexual content in context

, 60, 92, 167

sexual social media content

, 14, 83, 87, 100

user-generated content

, 52, 144

Social ties, strong and weak ties

, 9

Stigma

, 2, 22, 41, 164

Subreddits

r/asiansgonewild

, 71

r/eroticliterature

, 125

r/erotics

, 125

r/gonewild

, 70, 121

r/gonewildstories

, 125

r/indiansgonewild

, 71

r/jackoffconfessions

, 125

r/sexstories

, 125

Taboo

, 29, 102

Teenagers, teens, teenage girls, girls, teenage boys, boys

, 2, 38, 39, 40, 43, 54

Telegram

, 35

Template, standardization, drop-down menu

, 68, 78, 115, 123

Terms of Service

, 2, 44, 56, 58

Text based

, 28, 113, 145

TikTok

, 8, 14, 26

Tinder

, 29, 80

Tönnies, Ferdinand

, 139

Toys

, 4, 24, 71

Trust

, 74, 127, 129, 133, 144

Tumblr

, 13, 119, 149

reblogging

, 73

sex bloggers

, 17

Tumblr NSFW ban

, 63, 72–76

Twitter

, 13, 66, 73, 118, 143

UK, British

, 23, 31, 33, 148

USA, American

, 7, 28, 53, 118

Usenet

, 139, 142

User Guidelines

, 21, 44

Verification, identity verification

, 66, 99, 100

Vernacular

, 16, 82

Victims, victimization, dupes

, 20, 32, 38, 102

Violence, violate

, 2, 6, 47, 54, 127, 145

Visibility

, 22, 26, 78

Vkontakte

, 8, 13

Waskul, Dennis

, 89, 167

WeChat

, 8, 13

Weeks, Jeffrey

, 136

Weibo

, 13

WhatsApp

, 8, 35, 164

Whisper

, 125

WordPress

, 76

Xbox

, 46

Xhamster

, 59

Yik Yak

, 125

YouTube

, 8, 26, 55