List Submission: Cybersex?
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/
Quoting Hilary W <hilarywheaton@gmail.com>:
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? ...
Any thoughts, comments, epiphanies would be greatly appreciated :)
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You might want to try a Google book search for "cybersex" limited to items between, for example, 1900 and 1995. Here's a link to a sample earch which returned 766 results: http://goo.gl/WcOF5 [Note. Google Book search is somewhat non-deterministic, repeated searches may return different results.] A Google book "ngram" search might also be fun .. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ Ciao, Steve
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Stephen J Cavrak Jr