Cybersex Realities

Cybersex takes many forms...

  • BBSs
  • Newsgroups
  • Online Porn
  • Wireless Porn
    • Wireless Porn ... Of Course
    • PORN SITES SIGNAL WAP ACCEPTANCE
      Analysts say the appearance of the first WAP (wireless application protocol) pornography sites signals the adoption of WAP technology into the mainstream. Although the sites offer only tiny grainy images of naked Japanese models, sociologists say that the key to predicting whether a new technology will take off is to determine whether it’s used for pornography: "It’s inevitable, I suppose, that with any new technology people will use it for porn," says David Birch, CEO of Consult Hyperion. "That’s been the story with photography and video cameras." The news should be welcomed by wireless companies, which have reported slower growth rates than they had hoped. (The Independent 8 Jul 2000)

    • SMS Sex

      Short Messaging Gets Longer (SMS)
      http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39738,00.html


    • Hey Baby, What's Your Sign-On?
      Hoping to spice up the proceedings at this week's Web2000 conference, CMP Media Group is lending Palm Vs to participants and sending them off to find their perfect match. Elisa Batista reports from San Francisco.
      http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39863,00.html

      Matchmaker Exhibition Fizzles
      It was supposed to show off the newest technology and all its possibilities. Instead, the wireless matchmaking service at the Web2000 Show is a flop. Elisa Batista reports from San Francisco.
      http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39915,00.html
    • SinPalm - Free Wireless Erotica and Pics for your Handheld Palm and Pocket PC

      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
      CONTACT:
      Kathryn Hudson
      pkesales@singate.com
      http://www.singate.com/about.asp#sinpalmnews

      WIRELESS PORN--DOES THIS MEAN THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR? Baltimore, MD--It's been a banner year for the wireless communications industry. Kathryn Hudson, President of the small Maryland adult entertainment company, PK Entertainment, didn't want to be left out. "I wanted to be the first to put porn into the hands of PDA users, so I created portable adult content that could be downloaded to Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs as well as picked up with a wireless modem." That's how the highly successful web site, SinPalm.com http://www.sinpalm.com ), was born. Using AvantGo ( http://www.avantgo.com ), the premier mobile infrastructure software and services company, users can add the SinPalm channel to their PDA that is updated daily. Wireless users (like users of the popular Palm VII) must download a free Palm clipping application that allows them to surf to the site whenever they wish. The "little porn company that could" has over 10,000 members who visit their site on a daily basis. The free service doesn't come without controversy. A spirited debate ignited on a Palm information web site, Palm Power Magazine (http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue200008/pplte0800002.html). Editor, David Gewirtz, weighed in on the subject, saying, "Frankly, I find it fascinating that porn has found handhelds. Historically, one of the first popularization's of a mass medium has been via adult material (VCRs are one such example). We've just recently begun seeing a few adult-related handheld sites, which further indicates the mainstreaming of handheld devices such as the Palm organizer." Time Digital Magazine, the newest offering from the Time-Warner Corporation, finds the whole idea of "pocket porn" amusing. In his "Clipboard" column, Phil Roosevelt is skeptical about offering free memberships to the site, but curious about the moral implications. " Whether this plan succeeds - in making money or destroying civilization - remains to be seen." Kathryn Hudson isn't worried. In fact, she'll soon be releasing another mobile web site, a personals site called PocketPersonals.com. A decidedly less controversial site, the tag line is, "Love is in the air.everywhere!" Hudson hopes to bring the mobile Internet into the next era using the same old elements that drew people into the current one. "Love and sex, its what people are always looking for. Now they can find wherever they are, whenever they want it." ###

  • CD ROMs
    • "Virtual Valerie" - Demonstration
    • "Virtual Veronika"
    • "DonnaMatrix"

  • DVD
    Virtual Playmate
    Virtual Sex with ... (Name a Porn Star)

  • Video CD
    Diva X

  • Sex in Games - c|net Gamecenter
  • Chat
  • E-mail
    • Online Romance Success & Disaster Stories
    • French woman kills herself after being dumped by her cyberlover in the U.S.
      Wired News - "Net Romance, Suicide"
    • She'll Go Down in History
      Wired News Report
      11:45 a.m. Dec. 15, 2000 PST
      The famous British tabloid press has tracked down a London woman whose lewd e-mail exchange with a boyfriend was circulated to millions around the world like a virus.
      http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,40699,00.html

  • Personals
  • Real-Life Prostitutes Available Online

  • Gadgets
  • Webcams

  • Webcasts
  • Interactive A/V
  • Peer-to-Peer Porn
    File-Sharing Goes Hardcore
    Porn goes peer-to-peer as a Swedish Napster knockoff enables users to swap smut. Users of the fledgling Leechnet.com may risk criminal charges by breaking pornography laws. By Leander Kahney.
    http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,40443,00.html
  • Pornographers Push Envelope

    The porn business, both Internet porn and pornographic video empires, have the cash to put into cybersex development, and that is just what they are doing. Why? To make more cash, of course. Cybersexual applications add novelty value, variety, and hopefully an ounce of satisfaction to the pornographic experience, and that's what keeps customers coming back for more.

  • Teledildonics - aka Cyberdildonics
    • Wired News article about Robosuck (confirms teledildonics site prediction):

      WebPower's Cyberdildonics
      The WebPower online porn empire offers a service called iFriends, with over 2 million members, which features audio, video, and text chat—and cyberdildonics, too! With cyberdildonics, you can attach your sex toy to your monitor, and your partner can control it from anywhere with an Internet connection. Wired News explained it:

        "Here's how it works. A surfer has to order his or her pleasure tool from SafeSexPlus.com. The tool connects to a transducer that attaches to the computer screen with suction cups. Special software, which can be downloaded for free from SafeSexPlus.com, emits patterns of light from the screen that activate the sex tool. A remote user at an Internet-connected computer controls the light patterns by clicking the mouse on her onscreen Teledildonics controls.

        Digital cameras and chat software let the online lovebirds watch each other as they tap in demands for more, MORE! (Or less, as their desire dictates.)"

      WebPower's iFriends is planning to add smell and taste to the sight/sound/touch system. The following is an E-mail to customers of iFriends, dated January 3, 2000:
      "NEW: iFriends Has Sound! If you thought that watching and chatting with video chathosts was hot, hearing a chathost talk directly to you sizzles! It's a feast for the senses -- sight, sound, and with SafeSexPlus.com's revolutionary CyberDildonics, touch! (we're working on smell and taste, too!)"

      And WebPower is well-aware of the emerging technologies that will enable more and more exciting cybersexual experiences through their Web sites.

    • Virtual Sex Machine




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