Automating Desire

This chapter examines automated commands that Walford participants have created to simulate sexual practices. Although the commands are overtly erotic, the analysis demonstrates that rather than serving such purposes these commands serve multiple in-group

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Online Sex Talk and the Social World Mediated Desire Chrystie Myketiak

Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality Series Editors Helen Sauntson York St John University York, UK Allyson Jule School of Education Trinity Western University Langley, BC, Canada

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Chrystie Myketiak

Online Sex Talk and the Social World Mediated Desire

Chrystie Myketiak School of Humanities University of Brighton Brighton, UK

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Acknowledgements

The arguments that form this book have germinated for fifteen years. During that period, my ideas were shaped by many people across various mediums. Although it would be impossible to name ever