ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that digital sex arrangements simply offer new ways of assembling such diagonal lines. Describing sex as play dislodges sex from narratives that prioritise the mutual development of biographical intimacy, clearing a space for sex in the assembly of affective associations that Simmel and Hughes term sociability. The sexual infrastructure is generating new modes of material participation in gay sexual culture, new forms of community and a range of speculative intimacies. The chapter aims to describe some of the distinctive features, activities and modalities of sex arranged between men online. It argues that these activities can best be understood as a form of play and erotic speculation in which men experiment with bodily possibilities so as to produce more expansive experiences of pleasure and masculinity. The chapter discusses that sexual media can be approached as a specific structure of entanglement that gives rise to new capacities, interactions and affordances.
