ABSTRACT

While physical cultural studies takes active embodiment as its analytical starting point (Silk and Andrews, 2011), it has to date tended to focus on exercise, fitness, health, movement, leisure, recreation, dance and sport practices. Not surprisingly, there has been a plethora of technologies that articulate with our physical cultures – from m-health apps to ‘smart’ baby-grows, gaming to GPS fitness trackers such as RunKeeper, Runtastic; Nike+ Running, Endomono and so on – all of which demonstrate the crabgrass-like entanglements between everyday physical culture and new media technologies (Williamson, 2015). In this context, this chapter explores the embodiment of teen gender and sexual cultures and practices, examining their interconnectedness with media technologies. In doing so, we argue that the active embodiment of both technologies and sexualities are important questions for the emerging field of physical cultural studies.