Conjuring, Expanding, and Blurring Boundaries of Sexual Subcultures: The Grounding of the Fluid

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This paper creates a fluid model with which to research the connection between sexual subcultures and online spaces, as well as, the impact of online spaces on the creation and proliferation of sexual subcultures. This model is influenced by previous models that examined sexuality, both pre-internet and post. We offer an updated model that focues on, sexual subcultures in online spaces. A discussion of how this new model can be used to accommodate research on sexual subcultures in online spaces is offered.

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Tina Hebert Deshotels

Tina Hebert Deshotels (Ph.D., Florida State University) is Professor and Sociology Program Coordinator in the Department of Sociology at Jacksonville State University. Her research focuses on deviance and gender as an institutionalized system reconstituted at the micro, meso and micro levels of analysis.

Craig J. Forsyth (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is Professor of Sociology, a Picard Fellow, and holds the Jack and Gladys Theall/BORSF Professorship in Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of over 300 journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of The American Merchant Seaman: Struggle and Stigma (Taylor & Francis, 1989); coauthor (with Anthony Margavio) of Caught in the Net: The Conflict Between Shrimpers and Conservationists (Texas A&M Press, 1996); and coauthor (with Heith Copes) of the Encyclopedia of Social Deviance (Sage, 2014). His principal research interests are in the areas of deviance, crime, and delinquency.