Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps

By Deborah Lupton. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2015

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Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption (2016, positive): “Apps, like any other form of media, are forms of texts and sociocultural artefacts that both draw on and reproduce shared norms, ideals, knowledges, and beliefs (Lupton, 2014a, 2015b; Lupton & Jutel, 2015), including those related to health and risk.”
Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics (2014, background): “Apps are even available that allow people to track their sexual activities, rate their partners and compare their stamina and performance with other users (Lupton, 2014a).”
Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. (2015, background): “App and platform developers have not always taken appropriate steps to safeguard the often very personal data that are collected (Ackerman, 2013), including data on sexual practices and partners and reproductive functions that are collected by some apps (Lupton, 2014b).”
From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data (2017, background): “Data, in such accounts, are framed as inherently reductionist, and practices of quantification are seen as a tool in the quest to reduce all phenomena, no matter how complex, to numbers while displacing other forms of meaningful expression (Lupton, 2015).”