[Air-L] List Submission: Cybersex?

[Trudy Barber]

.. oh and of course the whole idea of cybersex- techno-sex etc has been
mentioned in popular culture for a very long time.. (Barbarella.. Woody
Allens Orgasmatron.. etc etc.. )
I also suggest for a simple background - you look at Rachel P Mains
Book: Technologies of Orgasm.. a very ineteresting take on early
technologies...

Cheers
Trudy


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>>> Hilary W 25/05/11 5:21 AM >>> 
Greetings, 

I was wondering if the list's collective mind could help me with a
question: 
when was cybersex (here defined as two or more individuals engaging in
typed 
descriptions of physical sex acts, emotions etc) first discussed
popularly 
and by whom? The academic history of cybersex extends far back to the 
Internet's beginnings - lists/MUDs/BBS - and was far more popular back
in 
the 90's than now (when seemingly questions of addiction etc take over
apart 
from Attwood's recent revisit). It all seems to blur together and so far
I 
have Rhinegold (1991) and Turkle (1995) as the earliest and most
popularly 
mentioned discussions. 

Any thoughts, comments, epiphanies would be greatly appreciated :) 

-- 
Hilary Wheaton 
PhD Candidate Curtin University 
-http://proceedbydebate.blogspot.com/ 
-http://hilarywheaton.blogspot.com/ 
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