ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the process of domesticating '"strange" and "wild" technologies' in non-monogamous gay male relationships. It focuses on people in non-monogamous relationships that inherently operate across different social, sexual and intimate scenes. The chapter also focuses on domestication analysis of media's 'double articulation' and its relation to 'the home'. It also examines the way in which hook-up apps are 'house-trained'. The chapter shows that how the possibilities of new app technologies destabilise 'old' scripts of intimacy: the visibilities that hook-up apps afford disturb distinctions between 'private' and 'public' in new ways. The apps produce 'bleeding boundaries'; that is, unwanted visibilities to partners or persons in their surroundings. The apps in focus belong to the category of 'online hook-up devices': services that build on network connectivity and 'make use of these capacities to facilitate sexual and social encounters between men'.
