February 4th, 2008

Mondays being Bonnie days, I wouldn’t be doing my faithful duty if I didn’t report on this week’s Click Me, which is about cybersex addiction. Is it really a terrifying menace threatening more than two million Americans–or just a bit of sex-negative sensationalism? If you’re one of my readers who’d like to give cybersex a go, but fear might get hooked, you should read definitely this article. Granted, I do write about (and talk about, and think about) cybersex all the time, so I’m probably not going to tell you to run screaming from the collective world of internet pleasure.

The other thing going on in the land of Bonnie writing at the moment is that I’m contemplating writing a book. Sounds big, right? Okay, I’m contemplating contemplating talking to some people and maybe possible sometime writing a book. Actually–and yes, now I’m just getting ridiculous–I’d really like to write two books. One would be about sex & gender studies as they apply to video games; I’ll be sure to talk about that one more later. Of course, the second would be about cybersex.

I’m not sure yet whether I’m thinking something along the lines of an educational, informative book (the cybersex equivalent of Tristan Taormino’s guides to anal sex), or a revealing, hands-on, almost ethnographic book (somewhere between Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life and Laud Humphreys’ Tea Room Trade). One thing I do know is I need to get my act together and starting reading up on all the books on the topic that are already in print. So I’ve started a list:

-Regina Lynn’s Sexier Sex
-Regina Lynn’s The Sexual Revolution 2.0: Getting Connected, Upgrading Your Sex Life, and Finding True Love–or at Least a Dinner Date–in the Internet Age
-Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Net: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
-Amanda Brook’s The Internet Escort’s Handbook
-Kimberly Young’s Tangled in the Web: Understanding Cybersex from Fantasy to Addiction
-Jennifer Schneider and Robert Weiss’ Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession?
-Deborah Levine’s The Joy of Cybersex: a Creative Guide for Lovers

Obviously they range from sex-positive, to purely practical, to straight-up sex negative–but it’s important to know everything that’s out there. So if anyone knows of any more non-fiction cybersex titles, or you’ve read one of above and want to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down, the input is muchly appreciated!

Tags: Bonnie life, books, cybersex

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