500 words

this week’s readings discuss how public institutions, spaces, and concerns shape visions of (proper/normal) intimate life. for this week’s forum, answer one or both of the following questions using specific examples from the readings: 

how are alternative or non-normative visions of intimacy renegotiating, challenging, or “rewriting” dominant visions of “intelligible” intimacy. 
how do emerging or “atypical” spaces of intimacy — dating apps, sex work and transactional intimacy, etc. — reveal the complexities and contours or intimacy? how do they compare to or reshape conventional lessons on how intimacy “should” work?
you should provide examples and citations from at least two readings. citations should look like (Garcia 2012: 61) or like (Garcia 61), for example. you are also welcome and encouraged to reflect on your own experiences.