In response to the following readings:

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  • Garet Branwyn, “Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts” (CR p. 396).
  • Randall Woodland, “Queer Spaces, Modem Boys and Pagan Statues: Gay Lesbian Identity and the Construction of Cyberspace,” (CR 416)
• Susan Stryker, “Transsexuality: The Postmodern Body And/As Technology,” (CR 588).
• Bonnie Ruberg, “Cyberporn Sells in Virtual World,” Wired, 12.19.05

Consider some of the following questions (though feel to discuss any issue that draws your attention that I do not mention below):

1. How is sexuality embodied and performed in cyberspace?
2. Thinking back to discussions of the body and the cyber/cyborg body, in what ways does the performance of sexuality online either inform or reflect our perceptions around the body?
3. In what ways do people construct and deconstruct identities through the performance of sexuality?
4. In what ways might identities be challenged by performances of online sexuality?
5. What, if any, impact do computer-mediated relationships have on real-life relationships (or one’s ability to have such relationships)? Or is our contemporary culture and the way we interact with one another intimately informing cyberspace?