ABSTRACT
This burgeoning online activity has spawned the notion of ‘internet sexuality’ as an area of academic study, focusing on ‘sexual-related content and activities observable on the internet’, as well as various forms of ‘cybersexuality’ (Döring, 2009, p. 1090). The online journal Medium recently published an article by Emily Witt exploring the implications of the website Chaturbate, a live-cam site, launched in 2011. Witt represents the site as a place of ‘total sexual anarchy’ and as an example of how the internet and social media ‘has created a whole new sexual persuasion’, that of the ‘internet sexual’, suggesting the advent of new sexual identities, mediated by new and emergent technologies (Witt, 2015).
