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Rather impressed with this. More thoughtful about the complications and contradictions than it might have been (given the rather sensationalist title - publishers!). Though, me being a historian and all, it made me think about other times and places which enabled women to explore themselves in a relatively anonymous way - cf Walkowitz on the late Victorian metropolis. But it does grapple with that pleasure/danger axis around female sexuality - I note that she has an ack to Anne Snitow, who was i...
I read most of this while doing research for a paper and it was really helpful and also interesting.
Audacia Ray, staying true to herself as a sex-positive blogger with a casual, interested tone when it comes to sexuality and the internet, presents this book with a wit often absent in women's studies books. She covers a basic history of sex on the internet, beginning with the earliest listservs to camgirl blogs and support groups (with a full index of terminology and URLs, which thankfully there is no need to flip back and forth between as you read). It is quite refreshing, for me, to finally r...
Interesting insight into the world of blog-exhibitionists. Got this one as a gift, would never have picked it up on my own but I found it ... educational. If you think craig's list gets raunchy ... yikes.
this book has me interested in sex work. with all of the recent conversations with the internet altering social landscapes, it is awesome to hear how the internet (though it can be dangerous - it's like having sex without a condom or not knowing how to properly handle a firearm) is being used as a tool of liberation and to connect with people. though this book concentrates on sexually connecting with 'generous men.'
I was pleasantly surprised to find this book in Lambda Rising in DC when I was there. I had discovered Audacia Ray's blog through an online friend and been enjoying it for a few weeks. It was very interesting to read this book, a spinoff of her master's thesis. It is very well researched and answered a lot of my questions about some internet sites and activities I have only heard about or considered looking into. Very informative and accessible even to those who haven't spent much time online.
3.5 stars rounded up. Written from behind her on line identity as Audacia Ray, Naked on the Internet presents itself as a cross between the author’s personal experience and more generalized qualitative research. The result is certainly personal and may be sufficiently representative to be a research tool. There should be no doubt that this is not targeted to a family audience, but neither is it going to directly serve anybody’s prurient interests. Many of the listed URLs are live and more than a...
Awesome, insightful and dude, I'm in it.
Although written as a current events book, that was in 2007 so the book is a bit dated by now both sociologically and technologically. Still serves as an excellent history of sexuality - especially feminist power - on the internet from 1992 - 2007.
well, full disclosure firstly: i helped the lovely ms. audacia proof her first book before it went to press. nevertheless, it's a good one: informational, smart, conversational, and interesting. for anyone interested in the multiple intersections sex/society, sex/commerce, sex/technology, sex/gender, or sex/femimism (to name a mere few), i'd definitely recommend this one.
This was a fair read. I was disappointed that the scope was wide but not too deep--I would have liked less of a survey and more depth from all of the women interviewed. I was also a little disappointed that there were so few men interviewed/quoted. There are good reason for the fact that Ray mostly talks about *women* naked on the internet, but I would have liked to have at least some information on how men deal with Hookups, downloads, and cashing in on internet sexploration...there was virtual...
