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AUTHOR
Scarcelli Mc
Rearticulating the idea of manosphere. Whatsapp groups as digital idioculture
This paper rearticulates the definition of the manosphere by considering everyday male digital media practices as part of a series of peripheral manospheres, connected, often without a clear reference, with the more articulated galaxy that makes up what we now call the manosphere (Ging 2019). The work focuses on homosocial practices between adolescents (Flood 2008) and how they perform and create masculinity (Mac an Ghaill 1994; Frosh, Phoenix & Pattman 2002) inside private WhatsApp groups composed of (heterosexual) guys.
The evolution of the male sexworking towards new digital scenarios
The aim of this contribution is to show some features of the male sex worker in the last century, since the pathologisation of the prostitution to the full digitalisation of the sexual esplicit media. Today a lot of male sex workers have the chance to shake the stigma off and achieve a new respectable status in some subcultures.