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Censoring the Sexual Self: Reflections from an Ethnographic Study of Gay Filipinos on Mobile Dating Apps in Manila
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This paper reflects upon Evelyn Blackwood's 1995 ‘Falling in Love with An-Other Lesbian’ essay on love and desire during fieldwork research as it intersects with the figure of the ‘virtual anthropologist’ in Kath Weston's 1997 essay of the same name. My multiple subjectivities (specifically those nativised) enabled and restricted what I considered bonds and differences between me and others during ethnographic research among gay Filipino men using mobile dating apps. I revisit an experience from four weeks of preliminary data collection between May and June 2015 in Manila, Philippines, where I decided not to include a sexual encounter with a research participant named Wesley. Moving forward with my study, my reflections on censoring sexual encounters with research participants helped me to acknowledge several sources of moral anxieties and ethical considerations that influence how this specific testimony took its shape and to consider how to construct and apply a malleable ethic of honesty for current and future projects especially when intimacies themselves are the focus.
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- Authors
- Atienza, P. M. L.
- Corresponding author
- Atienza, Paul Michael Leonardo
- Venue
- The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-05-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 231-244
- ISSN
- 0314-9099 (ISSN-L)
- 1444-2213
- 1740-9314
- OpenAlex
- W2802444244
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 1.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Keywords
- dating apps, researcher ethics, researcher subjectivity, Manila
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