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Article: Towards a theory of virtual pornography: a phenomenological introduction to Interactive Sex Simulators in the "naive realist" paradigm.
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- CineAction
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- March 22, 2007
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To prefer the virtual being--at some remove--to the real being-close
up--is to take the shadow for the substance, to prefer the metaphor, the
clone to a substantial being who gets in your way, who is literally on
your hands, a flesh and blood being whose only fault is to be there,
here and now, and not somewhere else. (1)
--Paul Virilio
In the epilogue to her seminal work on moving-image pornography Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible," Linda Williams asks, "what is the spectatorial experience of viewing and 'interacting' with sexual objects in a virtual cyberspace?" (2) The following will attempt to provide some answers.
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