Online Sex: My Space or Yours?

[Originally published on www.edgenewyork.com]
by Scott Stiffler
EDGE Contributor
Monday Apr 7, 2008

We all know that men are pigs -- when they’re not busy being dogs. We also know, from meticulous research conducted by our efficient, delicious and highly suggestible Edge interns, that what separates mankind from the rest of the animal kingdom is our ability to use sex as a means of pioneering technological advances. From the printing press to photography to motion pictures to VCRs and DVDs -- every new form of mass media has smut to thank for its initial success and subsequent development. But those were mere warm-ups for how sex sold the world on a little thing called the Internet.

What began as a twinkle in Al Gore’s eye and a networking took among academics quickly blossomed into the most prolific titty and prick show the world has ever known. Just Google the word "sex" and you’ll see the pursuit of happiness easily dwarfs the quest for reasonably priced airline tickets as the most popular on-line pastime. But how did the Internet change the face of hooking up; and what does the future hold? Edge spoke, sans our yummy interns, with a few pundits, entrepreneurs and academics to get the skinny on online sex.

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