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During her first foray into cyberspace, Lillian eschewed intimacy and sought excitement. “I didn’t see any danger in it,” she says. “The Internet access at home was pretty slow, so I went into a chat room at my high school’s computer lab.” Lillian quickly learned the e-ropes and within an hour was involved in erotic conversation. “This guy started making sexual innuendo and I just went along with it,” she says...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex, Lies and the Internet | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

Lillian’s online chatting continued when she went home. Using a PC in her bedroom, she began entering chat rooms regularly to act like the sexual animal she never was in real life. “My friends and I made sex jokes all the time,” she says, “but it was never directed in a ‘let me do this to you’ kind of way. It was always very abstract. Playing online was the first time I made that sort of innuendo with a take-me-seriously attitude...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex, Lies and the Internet | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...family purchased a new computer when he entered eighth grade. Among the new system’s perks: a free year-long subscription to AOL. After his parents had gone to sleep, Adam would sneak into the family’s computer room to speak with gay men in chat rooms. He asked them questions like “How do you know you’re gay?” as he tried to unravel his own pubescent confusion. Soon after, Adam began exchanging gay pornography. “I didn’t really use search engines...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex, Lies and the Internet | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

America Online chat rooms are divided into two categories: AOL-created chat and member-created chat. The former variety are intended for a general audience and are divided into large, unthreatening categories like “Architecture” and “Canada.” Member-created chat rooms revolve around topics that are generally of a more explicit nature. Among the room names: “College Jocks for College Jocks,” “Foot Fetish” and “Str8 men for gay guys.” Adam soon discovered...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex, Lies and the Internet | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...have expected the interviewer to at least quibble a bit, but he was satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin...

Author: By William J. Ferrari, | Title: Barbarism: A Tortured Defense | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

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