Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh
This article was published in the Gender, Technology and Development [© 2014 Asian Institute of Technology] and the definite version is available at : http://doi.org/10.1177/0971852413515326. The Journal's website is at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971852413515326
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10361-72652016-12-19T09:17:18Z Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh Karim, Shuchi Institute of Education Development, BRAC University Bangladesh Cyberspace Gay Internet Lesbian Sexual spatiality Sexualities This article was published in the Gender, Technology and Development [© 2014 Asian Institute of Technology] and the definite version is available at : http://doi.org/10.1177/0971852413515326. The Journal's website is at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971852413515326 Sexually diverse and marginalized groups are constantly challenged to create spaces for realizing their sexual fantasies, desires and politics within the all-pervasiveness of heterosexual spaces. Technology has brought about the possibility of creating spaces that are simultaneously private and public. In the context of Bangladesh, technology, specifically in the form of computers, mobile phones, and the internet, is rapidly gaining accessibility and popularity, resulting in opportunities for many to link up with local, regional, and global communities. Cyberspace is being used both by individuals and groups to set up communities, and go beyond the realization of personal erotic desires, to take up sexual politics and activism. Taking sexuality, gender, class and space as its central concepts, this article looks into ways in which cyberspace and technology affect the cultural and political dimensions of sexualities, identities, and sexual rights activism in the contemporary urban Bangladesh. The study focuses on non-normative homosexual groups and individuals using the internet. Using qualitative research methods, it looks into non-normative sexualities as expressed, practiced and organized through two Bangladesh-based same-sex online networks and groups: one online gay group and one online lesbian group in the year 2009. Findings from this study show how within cyberspace, the public and private overlap, intertwine, and make erotic desires and identities deeply unstable, permeable, inexact, and ambiguous. The sexual spatiality of public spaces, especially the relatively new arena of the virtual world, shows the contradictions of conformity and resistance to heteronormativity present in contemporary lives. Gender, class, and age are significant factors in creating hierarchies, discriminations and exclusionary spaces that are new but influential, especially in sexual politics. Published 2016-12-19T09:14:06Z 2016-12-19T09:14:06Z 2014 Article Karim, S. (2014). Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in bangladesh. Gender, Technology and Development, 18(1), 53-76. doi:10.1177/0971852413515326 09718524 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7265 http://doi.org/10.1177/0971852413515326 en http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971852413515326 © 2014 Asian Institute of Technology |
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This article was published in the Gender, Technology and Development [© 2014 Asian Institute of Technology] and the definite version is available at : http://doi.org/10.1177/0971852413515326. The Journal's website is at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971852413515326 |
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Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh |
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Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh |
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Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh |
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Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh |
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Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh |
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erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in bangladesh |
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