| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會學系 === 106 === Nowadays, since sex is still a taboo topic, people may use anonymous online sex forums when they want to share their sexual desires. In this study, the following research questions are explored: how people communicate “sex” with each other publicly through the Internet, and what kind of network relationship will they have in such interactions? In retrospect, lust studies in Taiwan mainly focus on an individual level of lust, including the measurement of sex knowledge, the liberation of female lust, and some male lust study with masculinity. Further, this study explores lust on an interactive level, including how people display and manage their lust to fit in a community, and what kind of culture will they create?
The research subject is the Sex forum in PTT, a popular and long-standing Taiwanese BBS (Bulletin Board System) community. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, this study depicts the whole user image with questionnaire and pictures personal features through interviews. The results show that males and females act differently in the sex forum. Males tend to take the sex forum as a social field; they enjoy funny articles and women’s selfies. They are under pressure of competition; they need creativity to attract women, so they develop unique styles or write extraordinary articles to stand out. On the other hand, most females prefer to be silent readers. Taking the sex forum as a sex encyclopedia, they usually read and learn but seldom interact with others. They do not try to be unique but are eager to be the same as the peers.
The way individuals display their lust is affected by the lust interactions in the communication, they manage their lust to make themselves accepted and recognized by the other members and to let the interactions go on smoothly. Massive interactions become a network; people gather because of lust and reproduce lust to keep together. Lust display is not only to satisfy desire but also for praise and recognition. Lust has become a capital; the better one is adept at luring others’ lust, the higher lust capital one can get, and the more popular one will be. High lust capital not only can gain emotional satisfaction, such as hook-up or compliment, but also can come with material interest, including job or bonus, which makes people keep producing lust in this network.
Therefore, users’ interactions create a network. The purpose of lust display is for not only expressing lust but also winning lust capital, by which people make more connections and resources so they can keep interacting in the network.
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