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Article: Typing, doing, and being: sexuality and the internet.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
- Author:
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The mechanical age is ending and the virtual age is unfolding. Stone (1995) indicated that "electronic communication networks--radio, television, computer networks-accompany the discourse networks and social formations now coming into being" (p. 20). These are characterized, according to Stone, by increasing awareness of self, increasing isolation of individuals in Western societies, less sharing of physical space, and by textuality and prosthetic communication. Sexuality, too, is in a state of flux, and one of the domains where this is particularly apparent is that of the internet. Simon (1996) argued that "all discourses of sexuality are inherently discourses about ...
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