Digital Pleasure

#Sex&TheSocial

“We touch our phone screens more often than the body of the person we love. The screen has replaced the skin”.

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“A useful guide to exploring the world of digital pleasure, tracing its limits and possibilities. Because for years now, dating apps, social media courtship, and porn video platforms have become part of a reality we have to deal with” – GRETA SCLAUNICH, Journalist for Corriere della Sera, curator of the Sesso&Amore (“Sex&Love”) column

“A navigation manual, essential and finely detailed, for interpersonal relationships in the age of social networks. Virtual soul-and-body fishers will find a compass to guide them through the Net and the hook. Love being the ultimate catch, of course” – MARCO SALVATI, Television Author

“A snapshot of 2020, perfectly in focus and capable of capturing the speed with which relational dynamics are celebrated with a few taps on a touchscreen, the urgency and need to be “connected” to others, but shielded by virtual interaction: the web seen as a place of self-affirmation, a form of knowledge and a medium for new digital experiences” – LAURA BARTH, Television presenter, model, influencer

“An effective analysis of the dimension of possession and control of the Homo Digitans, who takes away significant space from emotionally constructed and shared relationships, acting as an antidote to the feared confrontation with the Other. Digital Pleasure is a topical and stimulating book” – MASSIMO GRASSO, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, La Sapienza University - Rome

If you have a smartphone,
this book is for you

The technological innovation brought about by the digital age has radically transformed us. In language, customs, habits. Digital terms are getting more common in the way we communicate (‘I bought a smartphone’, ‘Let’s take a selfie’, ‘I’ll send you a screenshot’), mobile phones seem to have become a natural extension of our bodies, and the ways in which we relate to others are increasingly tech-mediated.

The revolution of the hyperconnected society seems to have contributed to the emergence of a new type of human being: homo digitans, a citizen of modernity perpetually hunched over a screen and absorbed by the latest innovations offered by the Net.

From “likes” to webcams, from apps to sexting, the Author will try to understand the impact that the gaze of the Other has on us. The book also includes sections containing real clinical vignettes, short exercises for self-reflection and insights about the digital world.

Dr. Michele Spaccarotella

Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Order of Psychologists of Lazio (Italy)

Michele Spaccarotella is a Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He works as a private practitioner in Rome at the Italian Institute of Scientific Sexology (IISS), where he is also a Lecturer. He graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome, his hometown, and trained in Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at SIRPIDI and in Psychosexology at IISS.

He was a subject expert at the Chair of Paraphilia and Deviance (Prof. Quattrini) at the University of L’Aquila. He is involved in research and clinical work in the field of sexual addiction and is co-author of the QDS (Questionnaire on Sexual Addiction). In 2012, together with other colleagues, he won the “Best Sex Based Research Poster” award at the 11th EFS Congress in Madrid. During his training, he has provided psychological support to people with chronic conditions such as psoriasis and diabetes.

He conducts educational seminars and is the author of several articles in the fields of psychology and sexology. He collaborates with local and national radio stations and with major Italian newspapers.

Michele Spaccarotella is currently a member of the Working Group on “Psychology of Sexuality and Affectivity” of the Order of Psychologists of the Lazio region in Italy. He is the co-host of the “Sentimen.Tips, Explorations of human feelings” podcast. He is the Author of the books “Il Piacere Digitale” for Giunti Psychometrics Italia and “Bolle di Tsunami”, an independent publication.