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‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex

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  • Tinonee Pym
  • Alexandra James
  • Andrea Waling
  • Jennifer Power
  • Gary W Dowsett
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/03/2025
<mark>Journal</mark>Sexualities
Issue number3
Volume28
Number of pages19
Pages (from-to)897-915
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date25/11/23
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

While most research on digital sex toys to date has focussed on their affordances and marketing, or issues of data governance and privacy, research on user experience is limited. This article centres the accounts of 11 interviewees who used digital sex devices within mostly heterosexual relations, and often for remote partnered sex. We demonstrate how digital sex toys offer creative potential and possibilities for sexual pleasure and connection, and explore to what extent this challenges normative gendered dynamics and expectations of heterosex. We conclude that digital sex devices operate as allies with which users navigate and continually re-make heterosexual sex.