Towards a theory of virtual pornography: a phenomenological introduction to Interactive Sex Simulators in the "naive realist" paradigm.

CineAction | March 22, 2007| | Copyright 
 
To prefer the virtual being--at some remove--to the real being-close 
up--is to take the shadow for the substance, to prefer the metaphor, the 
clone to a substantial being who gets in your way, who is literally on 
your hands, a flesh and blood being whose only fault is to be there, 
here and now, and not somewhere else. (1) 
--Paul Virilio

In the epilogue to her seminal work on moving-image pornography Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible," Linda Williams asks, "what is the spectatorial experience of viewing and 'interacting' with sexual objects in ...

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