The Editor: Dennis Waskul is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the author of several empirical and theoretical articles on Internet chat and cybersex in various scholarly journals as well as the book Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex (Peter Lang, 2003).

• Contents: Dennis D. Waskul: Introduction: Sex and the Internet: Old Thrills in a New World; New Thrills in an Old World – Dennis D. Waskul/Mark Douglass/Charles Edgley: Outercourse: Body and Self in Text Cybersex – Dennis D. Waskul: The Naked Self: Body and Self in Televideo Cybersex – Claudia Springer: Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age – Phillip Vannini: Così Fan Tutti: Foucault, Goffman, and the Pornographic Synopticon – Joel Powell Dahlquist/Lee Garth Vigilant: Way Better Than Real: Manga Sex to Tentacle Hentai – Donna M. Hughes: The Use of New Communications and Information Technologies for Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children – Keith F. Durkin: The Internet as a Milieu for the Management of a Stigmatized Sexual Identity – Jim Thomas: Cyberpoaching behind the Keyboard: Uncoupling the Ethics of «Virtual Infidelity» – Naomi McCormick/John Leonard: Gender and Sexuality in the Cyberspace Frontier – Lauren Langman: Grotesque Degradation: Globalization, Carnivalization, and Cyberporn – Erica Owens: Race, Sexual Attractiveness, and Internet Personal Advertisements – Taylor Marsh: My Year in Smut: Inside Danni’s Hard Drive – Lewis Perdue: EroticaBiz: How Sex Shaped the Internet – Stephen C. Roberds: Technology, Obscenity, and the Law: A History of Recent Efforts to Regulate Pornography on the Internet – Howard Rheingold: Teledildonics: Reach Out and Touch Someone – Trudy Barber: A Pleasure Prophecy: Predictions for the Sex Tourist of the Future.