Virtual communities have become an important part of many people's lives, especially for queer youth who may face discrimination and lack of support in their physical communities. Through these...
Sexual exploration, social learning, and identity formation are essential aspects of human development that play a significant role in shaping individuals' personalities, beliefs, and behaviors. For...
Erotic Curiosity Persists Despite Political Surveillance
Political surveillance, moral policing, and censorship can take many forms, but all have one goal - to restrict or eliminate access to...
The word "parasocial" is used to describe the phenomenon of feeling close to someone that you don't know personally, typically an actor, athlete, singer, politician, or social media celebrity, but...
Queer individuals are people who identify themselves outside traditional gender roles and heterosexual norms. They may be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, pansexual, intersex, etc....
Erotic fanfiction is an increasingly popular genre of fiction that explores sexual and romantic themes between fictional characters from various media franchises such as television shows, movies,...
YouTube has become a hub for various types of content creators, including those who produce videos focused on sex and intimacy. One such subculture is the erotic fan community, which often revolves...
The phenomenon of "shipping" has become increasingly prevalent in online fandom culture, particularly in fan fiction writing. This practice involves pairing fictional characters together romantically...
How does erotic fan culture on YouTube foster communities that blur the boundary between admiration and fetishization?
Sexuality is an integral part of human nature and has been explored through...
Erotic fan fiction is a genre of writing that imagines new stories for existing characters from books, television shows, movies, or video games. Erotic fan fiction writers create these stories to...