.. 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 Dr. Trudy Barber FHEA FRSA Senior Lecturer in Media School of Creative Arts, Film and Media University of Portsmouth Room 3.19 St. George's Building 141 High Street Portsmouth PO1 2HY United Kingdom Trudy.Barber@port.ac.uk T: +44 (0)23 9284 5307 F: +44 (0)23 9284 5372 http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm/staff/title,56309,en.html Ongoing current project see: http://www.cdpt.info Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mjwJTPc4c

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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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/