Virtual Slut: I Was A Cybersex Addict

by screenseductress

Why do I like Cybersex ? I love it because it is porn for women. Porn for me. My porn. Tailor-made for my fantasies and I choose the porn stars, plot, climax and ending. I am the director and camerawoman. I tell my cyberlovers what to do and where to put the camera. And it works. It gets me more turned on than any commercial porn or even the kinkiest of my fantasies ever has. Virtual Slut is perhaps the first book to fully and graphically investigate the phenomenon of "cybersex" or web sex-where two people interact over the Internet, aided by web cams, and have "virtual sex," the experience of "remote orgasm." Frustrated by the lack of commercially produced pornography for women, screenseductress began to prowl the internet and became hooked on cybersex during an intense six-month period. Virtual Slut contains no-holds-barred texts between the author and many of her cyber lovers (and the occasional jealous girlfriend!). It also contains many explicit photos of computer screen images to illustrate an overview of the mechanics of cybersex, plus supplementary material about meeting cyber lovers in the flesh and the liberating and empowering aspects of being a "web mistress" in a safe yet strangely intimate environment. Virtual Slut also investigates the moral issues involved in web sex (Does web sex constitute cheating on your flesh-and-blood partner?) and is a fascinating document of this truly modern and increasingly pervasive phenomenon. This, and its inevitably controversial nature, should make Virtual Slut the subject of much interest and debate and one of the hottest reads of 2005. screenseductress has worked for over 15 years as a TV director, creating documentaries for award-winning adult programs. She is 40 years old, was born in Germany but now lives in Brighton, United Kingdom.

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2005

Reviews

[Rob · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written and badly edited, but a couple of half interesting insights into the benefits of cybersex over real sex, written in the Wild West days of the internet in the mid-2000s. I however gave up midway where more than half the book is made up of tedious IM transcriptions, which on paper seemed intriguing, but in hindsight is actually quite boring. I shouldn’t be surprised. The anonymous author also briefly touches on having a cybersex addiction and having to stop, but doesn’t go into why. The title is misleading as it’s actually more aimed more at being a how-to book than a balanced look at the subject. There’s probably a really good book on the subject out there, but this isn’t it. Aside from some mild nostalgic value for anyone who indulged in this naive time of the pre-social media internet, a lot of what is here is now redundant and about as useful as a VCR manual.

Perhaps worst of all is the morally ambiguous decision to include the email conversation between the author and the distraught girlfriend of someone they had been secretly cybering with. The author comes across terribly in her responses, and instead devotes much of her retort to preaching the benefits of cybersex, (“there’s a whole world out there, go out and get it! :)”) and unsubtly alluding to her partner’s closeted bisexuality. The author came across quite badly in the exchange, and it left a fairly sour taste.

I’ve also been recently made aware that Creation Books as a publisher have been accused of being fraudulent racketeers by multiple authors. I’m glad to say that I acquired this book second hand, and they won’t be getting any of my money in future either.