Purpose of the Study

While social media, online messaging, and dating apps can provide spaces for those of sexual minority status to find romantic or sexual partners and promote fulfilling social engagements, they are also spaces where harmful sexual acts like harassment and coercion occur, where intimate images are taken and shared without consent, and where people are surveyed or stalked without their knowledge or permission. This is known as technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV).
  
The results of this study will help to fill a critical gap in the current body of research. There has yet to be any work that focuses on the context in which TFSV and sexual minority men specifically. The researcher hopes to use the results of this study to provide a basis for future exploration of how sexual minority men experience and are impacted by TFSV. You may not directly benefit from participating in this study, but information gathered might provide benefits to society as a whole through promoting a better understanding of TFSV specifically related to sexual minority men. 

Contact Information 
If you need more information about this research or study, you may contact Alex Pallottini by email at pallotta@uwindsor.ca. or Dr. Alexander Daros (alexd1@uwindsor.ca). If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant or the conduct of this study, you may contact the University of Windsor’s Office of Research Ethics by calling 519 253-3000 x3948 or email ethics@uwindsor.ca 

Feedback of the Results of the Study to the Participants  
When data collection is complete, results will be promptly posted at the following address: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/research-result-summaries. Results should be posted by August 2025.