Word: netsex
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...culture through songs such as Salt & Pepa's "Sexy Noises Turn Me On," and the Happy Mondays' "Bob's Yer Uncle" (voted by WFNX in 1991 as the "best song to have sex to"), talking dirty is a staple of sexual interaction. To those who practice it, 'netsex builds on this erotic principle by typing dirty. To those who have not tried it, it can seem alien, even perverse. As "Worm," a Leverett senior puts it, "Who wants to spank off at the rate of 9600 baud?" Nevertheless, it goes on all day, every day, in every forum which allows...
...what happens when one has netsex? The closest analogue is phone sex; people trade fantasies, "flirt" explicitly and engage in private activities at either end of the exchange. Those who cruise for 'netsex do it much more boldly than those who try for it in the flesh. IRC channels devoted to looking for love are peppered with calls of "Anybody horny?" "Any ladies out there?" and statements extolling a user's physical virtues. In non-'net terms, these channels amount to a room full of people milling about with signs proclaiming their libidinal urges...
...idea of going into the woods with anindividual of indeterminate gender underscores theuncertainty inherent in 'net relationships. Whenhaving 'netsex, the information one "partner"knows about the other is highly selective andoften false. After all, what can they give you?The Michelangelo Virus? There is a certainexcitement for many in this ability to create acharacter, to be an ideal self or someonecompletely different. If you want to be asix-foot platinum blonde transsexual dominatrixone day and a vertically challenged Cyclops fromNew Zealand the next, all it takes is the click ofthe keys. No one will ever know. By the sametoken, though...
...there are women for whom netsex clearly has its attractions. "It's not just the ultimate in safe sex," says Patrizia DiLucchio, a health-care consultant who runs the Eros conference on the WELL, a popular West Coast bulletin-board system. "It's also safe romance. It's like falling in love with a demon lover who knows just what you want and says all the right things." Several of DiLucchio's digital infatuations have blossomed into real-life love affairs...