In this article, I use a haptic geographical framework to explore the embodied, material and spatial anticipations of offline Grindr encounters - or hook-ups – that happen in users homes. I bring haptic geographies in conversation with geographical work on sexuality and the digital to explore how a desire to touch is reconfigured when people meet in ‘the flesh’. Grindr is a location-based dating/hook-up app that is used mainly by men looking for encounters – sexual, romantic, friendships, dates, online and offline – with other men. I draw on 30 semi-structured interviews and four participant research diaries from Grindr users in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in North East England. By using haptic geographies, I examine gender and sexuality at the bodily and domestic scale. I explore how touch and place are co-constituted, arguing that men who use Grindr are learning how to negotiate their erotic Grindr practices through anticipations, identities and places that encounters are situated. Focusing on the embodied and spatial anticipations enables an understanding of the ways corporeal and digital practices are co-constituted.

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预期触摸：英国泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔 Grindr 遭遇的触觉地理

在本文中，我使用触觉地理框架来探索用户家中发生的离线 Grindr 遭遇或连接的具体、物质和空间预期。我将触觉地理与关于性和数字的地理工作进行对话，以探索当人们在“肉体”相遇时如何重新配置​​触摸的欲望。Grindr 是一个基于位置的约会/约会应用程序，主要供男性使用，以寻找与其他男性的相遇——性、浪漫、友谊、约会、在线和离线。我借鉴了英格兰东北部泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔的 Grindr 用户的 30 份半结构化访谈和四份参与者研究日记。通过使用触觉地理，我在身体和家庭层面上研究了性别和性行为。我探索触觉和地方是如何共同构成的，认为使用 Grindr 的男性正在学习如何通过预期、身份和相遇地点来协商他们的色情 Grindr 实践。专注于具体化和空间化的预期，有助于了解物质和数字实践的共同构成方式。